Sensitive Content + Pre-Recorded Q&A (18)

There are things you’d rather forget. Things you don’t want to talk about even with the closest ones. Things that make you turn your eyes away in horror and persuade yourself that this has never happened.

Right now, it’s all taking place for real. In the XXI century, in the age of global tolerance and commercial travels beyond the horizons of planet Earth. Right now, the bloodiest and most genocidal episode in the history of Europe since the end of the Second World War is unfolding in Ukraine. Russian missiles incinerate Ukrainian cities and tear off people’s limbs. With their heavy armoured tanks, Russian soldiers smash cars with frightened civilians trying to flee the war. And those who did not manage to escape are robbed, raped and killed. Even children. This nightmare has been haunting the whole civilised world for months. And over time, its end seems to be further than ever.

Hundreds of millions of people from different eras, cultures and corners of the world felt the unbearable pain and horror of the war. Over time, all this experience dies along with its bearers, but at the same time, it crystallises in cultural artefacts. And such artefacts were collected in the “Sensitive Content” programme of the LINOLEUM festival. It includes seven author’s animations that help us feel that we are not alone. They help us understand that we will be able to survive it. They make us believe that we will definitely become stronger than before. And we will never forget.

The project is curated by Linoleum Festival (Ukraine) and is supported by the British Council under the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture and in partnership with Skwigly Animation Magazine.

Event/ There will be 30 minute pre-recorded Q&A with some of the filmmakers after the screening moderated by Ben Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief at Skwigly Online Animation Magazine.

Date & Time:	Mon, 14 Nov (18:00)
Approx. Runtime:	120 mins
Certification:	18
Venue:	HOME Cinema 2
Tickets:	BUY PASS

Films in this programme:

Souvenir Souvenir

For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a movie out of his grandfather’s Algerian war souvenirs.

Director: Bastien Dubois

Year: 2020

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Prelazak (Passage)

After a young boy is left alone to die in the midst of war and destruction, the last members of his tribe are dismantled to basic geometric forms under enemy fire.

Director: Igor Coric

Year: 2019

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