On March 11 at 11 AM, screening of the film Witnesses. Captivity That Kills with participation of the film’s director Tetyana Symon will take place in Berlin at Cafe Kyiv.
The film Witnesses. Captivity That Kills is dedicated to one of the Russian war crimes — the terror attack in Olenivka. On the night from 28 to 29 of July, 2022, the building where Russians kept Ukrainian POWs was destroyed by an explosion. The filmmakers were unable to collect testimonies from prisoners of that building: many of them died, and the survivors remain in captivity. Russians only granted access to the site of the attack to their propagandists. The creators of the film, however, collected testimonies from Ukrainian soldiers who were held captive in other buildings in Olenivka, along with interviews with people waiting for the return of their loved ones from captivity and the small amount of media materials from Mariupol provided by the eyewitnesses of these events.
The audience discussion of the film will be dedicated to Russians’ war crimes and their incessant attempts to shift the responsibility for them to Ukrainians; countering Russian disinformation and propaganda; and ensuring a just punishment for the aggressor.
Participants of the discussion will include Tetyana Symon, the film’s director and coordinator of the interviewing department of the Archive of War project, and Kateryna Singurova, partnerships coordinator of the DOCU/CLUB Network of the NGO Docudays.
The discussion will be moderated by Eva Yakubovska, board member of the NGO Viche in Berlin and curator at the Pilecki-Institut Berlin.
Admission to the Cafe Kyiv events is free with prior registration on the website https://mailings.kas.de/f/64728-240680/
Location: EG Hall | KINO 2 - DONEZK, Colosseum Berlin Cinema, Gleimstraße 31, 10437 Berlin.
The event is organized by the NGO Docudays in cooperation with the Ukraine: Relief, Resilience, Recovery Programme of the German Marshall Foundation of the United States of America.
