The "OKO" Festival will be held online on September 11-18 on the film festival's website www.okofilmfest.com.ua, and on September 16-18- offline in Bolgrad
OKO is a film festival that takes place in the beautiful Ukrainian region of Bessarabia. It unites filmmakers and film buffs; it is a feast of ethnographic and anthropological documentary (although not exclusively) cinema, where you can see and feel the daily heartbeat of small and large nations and communities, dwellers of villages and cities. It is also a platform where filmmakers, folklorists, and ethnographers can get to know each other better, share ideas, and develop future mutual projects.
In the meantime, you can not miss the new, rare, lively cinema that appears on short hours of online broadcasts, the programs of the contestants of the past years, collected by the most experienced selectors. Here is the programme.
11 September
Traveling Europe
Djuedjevdan Is Yet To Come
Director: Predrag Todorović
Country: Serbia
The Depth Beneath, The Height Above
Director: Andrea Bordoli
Country: Switzerland
Il Ponte Rotto
Director: Niccolò Masini
Country: Italy
A Remedy for Envy
Director: Nektaria Kapsala, Marion Reichstaler
Country: Greece
Atlas of Memory
Director: Dorino Minigutti
Country: Italy
Outside the Oranges are Blooming
Director: Nevena DesivojevicÌ
Country: Serbia (about Portugal)
Silêncio - Voices of Lisbon
Director: Judit Kalmár, Céline Coste Carlisle
Country: Portugal
My Gypsy Road
Director: Vilma Kartalska
Country: Ð‘Ð¾Ð»Ð³Ð°Ñ€Ñ–Ñ /Bulgaria
12 September
Exploring Middle East
Parizad
Director: Mehdi Imani Shahmiri
Country: Iran
Guli Armugʻon：Women’s Local Islamic Ritual in Uzbekistan
Director: Iqbol Meliqo'ziev
Country: Uzbekistan
Heritage
Director: Emil Nørgaard Munk
Country: Denmark (about Palestine)
Dakhla: Cinema and Oblivion
Director: Arturo Dueñas
Country: Spain (about Algeria)
Bedu Beddna Naiesh
Director: Tekla Taidelli
Country: Italy (about Egypt
Coming Home
The last Austrians
Director: Lukas Pitscheider
Countries: Austria, Ukraine
A Sunday in Strasbourg
Director: Lana Berndl
Country: Ukraine)
13 Septemer
Towards Africa
Arho – The Afar Salt Trade of Northeastern Ethiopia
Director: Till J F Trojer
Country: Germany (about Ethiopia)
Emails to My Little Sister
Director: Solomon Mekonen
Country: Ethiopia
Suñu Ekool
Director: Aron Marty, Maria Bänziger
Country: Senegal
Vodou's Mirror
Director: Sebastien de Monbrison
Country: France (about Togo)
Kɔtɛ
Director: Sidylamine Bagayoko
Country: Mali
Barcelona - A Welcoming City
Director: Christin Schuchardt
Country: Germany (about Spain)
From Trash To Treasure: Turning Negatives into Positives in Lesotho
Director: Iara Lee
Country: USA (about Lesotho)
Coming Home
Weaving Way
Director: Lesia Voroniuk
Country: Ukraine
Ancestral Code
Director: Volodymyr Lutskyi
Country: Ukraine, Belarus
14 September
Retrospective: Africa in Focus
Meduse Afro Hair and Other Myths
Director: Johanna Makabi, Adèle Albrespy
Country: Senegal
Talking Dreams
Director: Bruno Rocchi
Country: Italy
So Kou – The Horse's Tail and his Master Player Zoumana Téréta
Director: Marco Romano
Country: Mali
Miss Curvy
Director: Ghada Eldemellawy
Country: UK
Gushegu Exile
Director: Emil Nørgaard Munk
Country: Denmark and Ghana
Rajaa, that means hope
Director: Marielle Duclos
Country: France
15 September
Asia Calling
To Be A Marma
Director: Edward Owles
Country: UK (about Bangladesh)
Tajen
Director: Robert Lemelson
Country: USA (about Bali)
The Golden Wing on Taiwan
Director: Gary Seaman
Country: USA (about Taiwan)
Burning Cars
Director: Maud Mascré
Country: New Caledonia
Small Family, Happy Family
Director: Zoe Hamilton, Annie Munger
Country: India
Missing Girls
Director: Vadim Vitovtsev
Country: India
Barcelona - A Welcoming City
Director: Christin Schuchardt
Country: Germany (about Spain)
Another Paradise
Director: Olivier Magis
Country: Belgium (about Chagos Archipelago)
Coming Home
Seagull flight
Director: Yevhen Zhitnikov
Country: Ukraine
16 September
We are living in Americas
Gagulhchugh Nen Gagusun (The Land Looks Good All Around)
Director: Jeremy Williams
Country: Canada
Walking With Plants
Director: Trevor Dixon Bennett, Leigh Joseph
Country: Canada
The Last Bonesetter
Director: Adam Booher
Country: Peru
Amongst the Plants
Director: Mark Lindenberg
Country: Netherlands (about Peru)
Twakana Yagan
Director: Rodrigo Tenuta, Ignacio Leonidas
Country: Argentina
The Village Resists
Director: David Bert Joris Dhert
Country: Belgium (about Brazil)
Yo'eme Labyrinth
Director: Sergi Pedro Ros
Country: Mexico
17 September
There's no place like home
Kalinindorf
Director: Les Kasyanov, Yurii Kaparulin
Country: Ukraine
Breaking Culture
Director: Yegor Kadomtsev
Country: Ukraine
Discover the New Sea
Directors: Olesya Novosad
Country: Ukraine
Territory of Empty Windows
Director: Zoya Laktionova
Country: Ukraine
Dirty waters of the Danube
Director: Vsevolod Ananiev
Country: Ukraine
Stone graves
Director: Victoria Popova
Country: Ukraine
18 September
