As part of Europe Day, on Friday 5 May at 8 p.m., the theatre of the Instituto Francés in Madrid presents a Season of Ukrainian Cinema, with contemporary Ukrainian directors and the first film Inner wars, directed by Masha Kondakova, an exclusive story about the lives of three women on the front lines of the Donbas. In original version with Spanish subtitles.
These films show the vitality of Ukrainian cinema in the last 10 years, with an increasingly important presence at international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, etc.). The cycle will show, among others, some Ukrainian documentaries, a genre that has been used a lot lately in Ukrainian cinema.
The film that opens the cycle, Inner wars, talks about how since the pro-Russian uprising in 2014 in the Donbas region, hundreds of women have become involved in the conflict against the separatists. Only a small part of them managed to go to the front lines. The director, Masha Kondakova, follows the trajectories of three women at the heart of the conflict, their daily lives, their struggles. Because they are not only fighting against the enemy but also against patriarchy.
The film talks about the war, but focuses on the internal wars of the protagonists, immersed in a patriarchal and sexist state that imprisons them and questions their role within the conflict and even within society itself. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
