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Edition 2025

Critical Condition КРИТИЧНЕ СТАНОВИЩЕ

Mila Zhluktenko

Germany 2025 24 min Ukrainian, Russian
Lights On

Inspired by the events around the life of Lev Rebet, Ukrainian author and editor-in-chief of the Munich-based exile newspaper Ukrainian Independist, Critical Condition portrays the fates of the Ukrainian diaspora in the past and present.

Crédits

Interprètes

Yevgen Bondarskyy, Oleksandr Pozharskyi, Gustl, Jasper, Ihor Shulha, Vita Smachelyuk , Sebastian Anton, Lisa Moskalenko, Volodymyr Melnyk, Pnema, Valeriia Berezovska, Valeriia Kuzmenko

Screenplay

Mila Zhluktenko

Image

Tobias Blickle

Editing

Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko

Sound

Philip Hutter

Production

Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk, University of Television and Film Munich

Mila Zhluktenko

Born in 1991

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mila Zhluktenko studied at HFF Munich. Her current works include Aralkum (Juryprize Visions du Réel) and Waking up in silence (Juryprize Berlinale Generation KPlus). Critical Condition is selected at La Semaine de la Critique 2025 in Cannes.

Filmographie

Aralkum (2022) : Juryprize Visions du Réel
Waking up in silence (2023) : Juryprize Berlinale Generation KPlus

Contact

Distribution : LIGHTS ON
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