Original Title: Чорнобиль 22
Spanish Title: Chornobyl 22
English Title: Chornobyl 22
Year and month of production: 2023
Length: 21 minutes
Production country: Ukraine
Genre: Documentary
Language: Russian, Ukrainian
Subtitles: English
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During the Russian occupation of the Chornobyl Zone in early 2022, a local informant is clandestinely filming the Russian troops. We hear the workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station discuss their experiences during the Russian military takeover of their facility – an act of nuclear terror which threatened another global disaster at this site. Past and present catastrophic scenarios intertwine in this macabre episode of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This work has been developed as part of the Reckoning Project, a media and forensic effort to aimed at investigating and prosecuting Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

OLEKSIY RADYNSKI

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His documentary Chornobyl 22 won the Grand Prix at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2023. In 2022, his feature-length debut film Infinity According to Florian was awarded the Kinokolo Prize for the Best Ukrainian Documentary. His texts had been published in various media outlets including The Atlantic, e-flux journal, and Die Tageszeitung.

Selections

Some festivals

1. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany - World+International Premier
International competition, 26.04-02.05.2023 - Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
2. Krakow Film Festival, Krakow, Poland
3. Docudays UA, Kyiv, Ukraine
4. Vienna Shorts, Austria
5. Sheffield DOC, UK
6. Mykolaichuk Open Audience Film Festival, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
7. Art Film Fest Košice, Slovakia
8. DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
9. Human Rights Film Festival Berlin
10. dokumentART, Neubrandenburg, Germany
11. Molodist International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
12. Kyiv International Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
13. Wiz-Art, Lviv, Ukraine
14. Watch Docs, Warsaw, Poland



Awards

1. Grand Prix of the city of Oberhausen at the Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany 2023
2. Special jury mention at the Docudays UA, Ukraine 2023
3. The winner of the national competition of shorts films at the Mykolaichuk Open Audience Film Festival, Ukraine 2023
4. Audience Award and Special mention from Ukrainian Critics at Kyiv International Film Festival