BLUE SWEATER WITH A YELLOW HOLE

SYNOPSIS

Raising awareness about the manipulation of information in the modern world, the story follows Ukrainian children Taisa (15) and Kyrylo (12), as they paint memories of their time in Russian ‘re-education’ camps. The animated scenes immerse the viewers into the children’s shifting identity experiences.

CONTACT

AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: 22 500 €

European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films – Date of the decision : July 26th, 2024

THE DIRECTOR

Tetiana Khodakivska is an award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker, a member of the European Film Academy, the Ukrainian Film Academy, a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee, and a Ukrainian Directors Guild board member. 

Tetiana strives to challenge pressing social issues through multi-disciplinary projects. Her body of work includes a cinema vérité documentary about mortality “Enticing, Sugary, Boundless or Song and Dances about Death” that premiered at the Ji.hlava Film Festival and was nominated as best documentary at the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards. Tetiana is particularly interested in examining society from children’s perspectives. Among her other awards, is the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival for the period mini-series Angels of War, which follows the stories of siblings during the Second World War.

Creating links between story-telling, contemporary art and the academic world, in 2022, Ms Khodakivska co-curated the immersive Exhibition of Ukrainian Contemporary Art in the James Gallery at Cuny Graduate Center. The Exhibition brought the presence of 51 artworks by 40 renowned Ukrainian artists to New York audiences through projections, becoming the largest gathering of contemporary Ukrainian art in the United States in the last twenty years.