students' program V - Junction Tashkent

When his grand­fa­ther died, Jakob Oss­mann was still a child. He never spoke to him about Nazi Ger­many. Now that his­to­ry is repeat­ing itself in a cer­tain way, he returns … read more

The deeply per­son­al auto-ethno­graph­ic work by Ukrain­ian film­mak­er Daria Zhu­rav­el engages the observ­er with the lim­i­ta­tions of human­ness, its inabil­i­ty to direct time, and the ulti­mate inevitabil­i­ty of death. Through what she calls a col­lage film, Daria intu­itive­ly layers frag­ments of words, children’s paint­ings, photos and videos, as they seem to flee and escape from her, and so does she. She explores the mean­ing of imper­ma­nence of life and memory, reflect­ing on loss and the traces that we leave behind.

Daria Zhu­rav­el, born in Odesa, grad­u­at­ed with a BA in Acting from the Kyiv Nation­al Uni­ver­si­ty of The­atre, Film and Tele­vi­sion. In 2022, during the full-scale Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine, she cre­at­ed her first doc­u­men­tary short film POSTCARD. Cur­rent­ly based in Kyiv, she is devel­op­ing a fea­ture doc­u­men­tary project about Ukrain­ian youth and a short fic­tion film, while also work­ing as a director’s assistant.

The doc­u­men­tary fol­lows Khur­ram Muraad’s jour­ney to uncov­er the trau­mat­ic mem­o­ries of Hyder­abad’s annex­a­tion (Police Action) in 1948. Through the frag­ment­ed mem­o­ries of his grand­moth­er, Gulnar, he forges a con­nec­tion … read more