3 April – doc­u­men­tary movie “Ukrain­ian Sher­iffs” by Roman Bon­darchuk (1h. 25 min, Ukraine, 2015) at the “Labia The­atre” in Ukrain­ian with Eng­lish sub­ti­tles

This is a doc­u­men­tary about small town in the East of Ukraine, where the near­est police HQ is too far away to be effec­tive, and com­mu­ni­ty appoints two Sher­iffs to tack­le the town’s prob­lems.

Ukrain­ian Sher­iffs is a real life sto­ry about two local sher­iffs and the vil­lagers of a remote vil­lage near Crimea, Stara Zburiev­ka. Fol­low­ing the sher­iffs on their every­day duties, the sto­ry gives us a look beyond the war and the ongo­ing polit­i­cal events inside the every­day life of the vil­lagers, fore­ground­ing the ten­sion between per­son­al sur­vival and polit­i­cal jus­tice.

What was meant to be a film about a few peo­ple from the Ukrain­ian coun­try­side and their every­day strug­gles, arous­ing main­ly from preva­lent unem­ploy­ment, pover­ty and illit­er­a­cy, at the end por­trays the faith of a whole nation dur­ing the turn­ing peri­od in its his­to­ry.

Trail­er and info: www.ukrainiansheriffs.com