Askania Reserve

Director: Andriy Lytvynenko

Country: Ukraine

Year of production: 2019

Duration: 75 min

Subject:

Environmental rights

Audience:

Activists / NGOs
Government officials
Teachers
Institutions of the state penitentiary system of Ukraine
Employees of penitentiary system
Pupils
Students
Journalists
Lawyers

Reform:

Inclusive component:

The narrative of the film centres around four characters with entirely different attitudes, destinies, and life goals. However, they share the desire to preserve life inside the largest oasis in Ukraine, which is drastically losing its uniqueness.

director

Andriy Lytvynenko

Andriy Lytvynenko received a degree in film and theatre directing from the Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film, and Television University in 2012. He was the author of the idea and one of the directors of the Beyond the Euro film almanac about the Euro-2012 World Football Championship. He has participated in the anthologies Ukrainian Voices, Euromaidan. Rough Cut, and Kyiv from Dusk till Dawn. In 2013, he received a Gaude Polonia grant and studied at the documentary studio of the Wajda School in Warsaw. He came up with the idea for The Trial. The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

Internally Displaced Persons – Upwards No Matter What (2016), Vattenti (2017), Science Will Win!!! (2017), Askania Reserve (2018)