While her first feature-length doc “Outside” is having its world premiere in the main competition at the Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba will be…
will be back home. The young filmmaker has decided to stay in her country to document the evacuation of refugees fleeing the war brought on by Vladimir Putin.over the phone. “We will need to reflect on what is happening to us in the future to cope with the trauma of this tragedy.
“We’re trying to record their stories – audio stories as well. We’re trying to film the big scale of this tragedy because we feel we can bring all this pain that our people are going through to the outside world and it’s our mission – something we must do as filmmakers,” she said. As it travels back and forth in time, “Outside” shows how Roma is forced to leave the orphanage as soon as he turns 18. Left to fend for himself with nowhere to live, no education or job, he soon gets into trouble. Only months after leaving the orphanage he ends up in prison charged with stealing a motorbike.
Bassel’s Moon Man production company previously co-produced another doc focusing on Ukraine’s orphans together with Copenhagen-based outfit A Final Cut for Real: Simon Lereng Wilmont’s Sundance sensation “A House Made of Splinters.” “In that orphanage, the kids are lucky,” she said, “because the people working there care about what they are doing, but this is very rare, the system is very corrupt in our country.
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