Focus: Sergii Masloboishchykov
Programme IFFR 2025
Occasioned by the international premiere of Sergii Masloboishchykov's latest work, Yasa, IFFR is delighted to welcome back an auteur whose first feature, Josephine the Singer and the Mice People, screened at the festival thirty years ago in 1995. Much has happened since, and Masloboishchykov's cinema in both fiction and documentary has borne witness. This retrospective is an invitation to discover a modern master as well as to better understand what's happening in Ukraine.
Overview of films
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The Noise of the Wind
Runaway child Alyosha invites inquiry into the pains we inherit in Masloboishchykov’s reworking of Goethe.
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Invasion
A journalist travels to The Hague to give testimony about unspeakable crimes and unfathomable resistance.
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Two Families
Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Tobilevych’s surprising familial connection is explored in this detailed TV documentary.
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Josephine the Singer and the Mice People
An adaptation of Franz Kafka and a landmark example of Ukrainian cinema in the 1990s.
