Denník N discussion: We Will Not Fade Away 

Guests: Alisa Kovalenko (director of the film We Will Not Fade Away) and Pavol Pekarčík (co-director of the film Photophobia), hosted by Oliver Rehák (editor of Denník N). 

Alisa Kovalenko, director of the film We Will Not Fade Away, had decided to put away video camera and fight for her country after the outbreak of the war. However, after some time she picked up the video camera again to show others what is going on in her country. She began working on the film We Will Not Fade Away back in 2019. After the invasion of Russian personnel into Ukraine, she stopped for a while, but in the end, she did finish it. Oliver Rehák, editor of Denník N will lead discussion with the Ukrainian director Alisa Kovalenko and Pavol Pekarčík, who started going to Ukraine and filming there already after 2014, about the events in Ukraine and the documenting of the conflict there. In spring 2022, Pavol Pekarčík set out to Kharkive, where he spendt several weeks in the metro. The result was the film Photophobia co-directed with Ivan Ostrochovský. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, The Best Documentary Feature Award in Warsaw, and the film became the official Slovak Oscar nominee. 

Discussion will take a place on 4. 11., 17.15 in A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry. Free entry

The discussion is preceeded with a screening of Away and We Will not Fade Away at 15:00 in A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry.

IOM film screening and discussion during the One World Film Festival 2023 is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.