Verzió film rentals to support Ukrainian documentary filmmakers
Until March 31, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival offers six Ukrainian documentaries in its online library for rent. The total income from the rental fees, as well as royalty fees, will be allocated to support documentary filmmakers who stayed in Ukraine.
The ten-day rental period is a fundraiser for Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. This year's Docudays, the 19th edition of the film festival had to be postponed until the end of the war in Ukraine. The organizers are now collecting funds to support the documentary filmmakers who stayed in the country. With the help of community fundraising, they can manage to continue their work in Kyiv and other occupied cities such as Kharkiv and Mariupol.
“In addition to fundraising, the purpose of this film selection is to foster our viewer’s understanding of contemporary Ukraine, social mobilizations of the past years, and the dynamics of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia.”
- reads in the Verzió announcement.
List of Ukrainian documentaries for rent at verzio.org until March 31:
Pit Nr. 8 (2010) is a heartbreaking story about kids who have to grow up too fast without role models.
Audio: Russian. Subtitles: English. Streamable worldwide.
Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015). The film reveals the daily life of a village without official police, all this with a great sense of detail and a good dose of black humor.
Audio: Ukrainian. Subtitles: English and Hungarian. Streamable from Hungary.
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020). In the Donets Basin in Eastern Ukraine, a single mother and her four children start filming to distract their attention - with the help of their imagination - from the realities of the ongoing war.
Audio: Ukrainian and Russian. Subtitles: English and Hungarian. Streamable from Hungary.
Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014). The young Ukrainian filmmakers wanted to reveal and show the world, as well as their country, what they saw at the protests at all costs.
Audio: Ukrainian and English. Subtitles: English. Streamable worldwide.
This Rain Will Never Stop (2020) illustrates the cycle of war and peace through a Syrian family that fleed to Ukraine. Should the protagonist flee from war or should he help relieve the suffering of the locals?
Audio: Russian, Kurdish, Ukrainian, German, Arabic. Subtitles: English. Streamable from Hungary.
No Obvious Signs (2017). A woman, who returned from the war as a major, is now trying to get back to normal. She is seeing a psychologist in Kyiv to help her with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Audio: Ukrainian and Russian. Subtitles: English and Hungarian. Streamable from Hungary.
Rental fee: 1.000 HUF / film
It is possible to rent all six films at once, in this case, you can choose from 4 price categories, depending on your preferred amount.
Tickets and more details about the rental periods: verzio.org.
Source: Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Facebook and web pages. Featured image is a still from the film Ukrainian Sheriffs via Ukrainian Sheriffs Facebook page
