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Program of “STEPS” Film Festival 2008


27 NOVEMBER, THURSDAY


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16.30-17.30 Press conference with the festival organizers. The conference participants: Igor Parfenov – Head of the Festival, Stanislav Kucher – (an anchorman of “Top Secret”, Russia), Vladimir Koshevoy, Elena Polyakova, Ilona Gontsovskaya (Latvia, Riga), Alina Grossou, Foma (band “Mandry”), Kamalia, Nina Matvienko, Konstantin Sabinin, Irina Novozhilova (rights defense organization VITA, Russia), Igor Kapitalist, Vyacheslav Stasenko – festival participants.

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18.00 Grand opening of the festival
Opening film: “Confession of the Devil” (feature film/human rights, animal rights), 130'– pre-opening night, director – Igor Parfenov, Ukraine. Non-competition program.

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21.00 Press club. Discussion of the film “Confession of the Devil” with the director, actors, film critics and journalists.





28 NOVEMBER, FRIDAY


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11.00-13.00
“To Love a Striped Animal” (documentary/animal rights) 24', director – Anna Samoylova, Russia. Panorama
“A Sunday in Pripyat” (documentary/environmental protection, Chernobyl) 26', director – Blandine Huk, Frederic Cousseau. Panorama
“No Place for You at This Workplace” (documentary/rights of disabled, women rights) 51', director – Slaven Zimbrek, Croatia. Panorama

13.00-15.00
“Like a ship in the night” (documentary/women rights) 30', director – Melissa Thomson, Ireland/Great Britain/USA. Panorama
“Unworldly” (documentary/religion) 23', director – Vladimir Golovnev, Russia. Panorama
“Global Focus 4: New Environmentalists” (documentary/environmental protection) 27', director – Will Parinello, Tom Dousbery, John Antonelli, USA. Panorama
“After the War” (documentary/human rights) 26', director – T. Guzik, Ukraine. Non-competition program


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11.00-13.00
“Give me a present of a dog” (documentary/animal rights) 30', director – V. Hmelnitskiy, Russia. Panorama
“Mother” (documentary/children rights) 80', director – Pavel Kostomarov, Antoine Cattin, Russia/Switzerland/France. Non-competition program

13.00-15.00
“Supersize” (documentary/human rights, danger of fast food) 100', director – Morgan Sparlock, USA. Panorama

15.00-17.00
“Skinned” (short video/ animal rights) 3', director – Zoltan, Great Britain. Competition program
“Animal Instincts” (documentary/animal rights) 23', director – N. Zhukova, Ukraine. Non-competition program
“Rebellion. The Litvinenko Case” (documentary/human rights) 97', director – Andrey Nekrasov, Russia. Competition program

17.00-19.00
“With a Little Patience” (short film/human rights) 14', director – Laszlo Nemes Jeles, Hungary. Competition program
“HEROES, NO HACEN FALTA ALAS PARA VOLAR” (documentary/rights of disabled) 25', director – Angel Loza, Spain. Competition program
“To Love or to Kill?” (documentary/animal rights) 61', director – Anthony Thomas, Great Britain. Retrospective. Cruelty scenes!

19.00-21.00
“Skinned Alive” (music video/animal rights) 3', Israel. Competition program
“Whose Skin Are You In?” (short video/animal rights) 4', PETA, USA. Competition program
“Testing” (short video/animal rights) 4', PETA, USA. Competition program
“Is everything OK?” (Animation/environmental protection) 5', Vakonda design studio, Russia. Non-competition program
“Anti-fur short videos” (10) (Animation/animal rights) 5', Ukraine. Non-competition program
«Handle with Care» (documentary/animal rights) 11', director – Paul Matamoros, WSPA, Great Britain. Competition program
“Meet your Meat” (documentary/animal rights) 13', PETA, USA. Competition program Cruelty scenes!
“Animal Rights” (documentary/animal rights) 22', director – Alex Bourke, Harry Snell, Great Britain. Competition program
“Eat this!” (documentary/animal rights) 20', Animal Aid, Great Britain. Competition program. Cruelty scenes!
“The Story of Boris the Bull” (documentary/animal rights) 20' Hillside animal sanctuary, Great Britain. Competition program


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15.00-17.00
“Earth Planet” (music video/environmental protection) 3', director- Vladimir Zhyvitskiy, Ukraine. Panorama
“Sacrificing your loved ones…” (music video/human rights) 5', director – S. Otvodenko, Ukraine – Panorama
“My daughter” (feature film/children rights) 90', director – V. Tihiy, Ukraine. Competition program

17.00 - 19.00
“Whose Skin Are You In?” (short video/animal rights) 4', PETA, USA. Competition program
“So what?!” (short film/human rights) 30', director – A. Aydarhin, Kazakhstan - Competition program
“Red Lotus” (feature film/human rights) 97', director – Zaza Bouadze, Ukraine. Competition program

19.00-21.00
“Skinned” (short video/ animal rights) 3', director – Zoltan, Great Britain. Competition program
“Dash” (feature film/human rights, animal rights) 110', director – A. Kozyrev, Russia. Competition program


“Kiev” Cinema

19.00
“Skinned” (short video/ animal rights) 3', director – Zoltan, Great Britain. Competition program
“Dolina” (documentary/human rights, terror) 122', director – Zoltan Camondy, Hungary/Romania. Panorama





29 NOVEMBER, SATURDAY


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11.00-13.00
“A different kind of gun” (documentary/human rights) 15', director- Peter Jordan, USA/Sudan. Panorama
“The Devil Came on Horseback” (documentary/human rights) 85', director – Anne Sandberg, Ricky Stern, USA/Chad. Non-competition program

13.00-15.00
“The Living and the Dead Ones” (documentary/animal rights) 33', director – P. Bandich, Belarus. Panorama
“Scruffy's Travels” (animation/ animal rights) 25', Upstream Great Britain. Non-competition program
“A Test” (documentary/animal rights) 24', director – H. Rustamov, Belarus. Panorama
“My gosh!” (documentary/women rights, women prison) 30', director – Taras Phomenko, Ukraine. Panorama

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11.00-13.00
“Overcoming barriers” (documentary/disabled) 20', director – R.Zavgorodniy, Ukraine. Non-competition program
“The railroad all-stars” (documentary/prostitution) 90' director – Chema Rodriguez, Spain. Non-competition program

13.00-15.00
«The Champ» (documentary/children rights) 6', director – Peter Jordan, USA. Competition program
“The Legs” (documentary/human rights) 7', director – Damir Cekic, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Competition program
“Skunks” (short film/emigration) 10', director – Inesse Ensiko, Spain. Panorama
“The song of the cricket” (short film/human rights) 18', director - Danny Campos, Spain. Competition program
“My backyard was a mountain” (short film/animal rights) 24', director – Adam Shlakhter, USA. Non-competition program
“The Funa of Viktor Jara” (documentary/political repressions) 30', director – Krisrian Villablanka, Spain. Competition program

15.00-17.00
“Together” (music video/human rights) 2', director – A. Gavrilyako, Ukraine – Non-competition program
«Land. The Doomed to exile» (documentary/children rights) 62', director – Alexander Zamyslov, Russia. Competition program
“Sampari” (documentary/human rights) 52', director – Damien Faure and Jerome Bonnard, France. Competition program

17.00-19.00
“The Scenery after the Hunger” (documentary/the Hunger) 60', director – Yuriy Tereshenko, Ukraine. Non-competition program
“Real Workshop” (documentary/social film) 52', director –Anna Chepelick, Ukraine. Non-competition program

19.00-21.00
“Spell your Name” (documentary/the Holocaust) 92', director – Sergey Bukovskiy, Ukraine/USA. Panorama
“Bull's soul” (documentary/animal rights) 15', director Igor Parfenov, Ukraine

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15.00-17.00
“The Football” (short video/animal rights) 2', Pink Rabbit, the Netherlands. Competition program
“Veterinary” (short video/animal rights) 2', Pink Rabbit, the Netherlands. Competition program
“Skinned Alive” (music video/animal rights) 3', Israel. Competition program
“Parliament of the Doomed” (animation/animal rights) 20', IAAPEA, Great Britain. Non- competition program
“The Islanders” (feature film/children rights) 84' director – Kristina Kevish, Russia. Competition program

17.00 - 19.00
“Skinned” (short video/ animal rights) 3', director – Zoltan, Great Britain. Competition program
“What does the Television watch?” (documentary/human rights, animal rights, environmental protection) 47', director – L. Matteissen, E. Kiryushina, Russia. Competition program
“Russian Rake” (documentary/human rights) 45', director – S. Kusher, Russian. Non- competition program

19.00-21.00
“Whose Skin Are You In?” (short video/animal rights) 4', PETA, USA. Competition program
“The Moon in Zenith” (feature film/human rights) 120', director – D. Tomashpolskiy, Russia. Competition program


“Kiev” Cinema

19.00
“Confession of the Devil” (feature film/human rights, animal rights), 130'– pre-opening night, director – Igor Parfenov, Ukraine. Non-competition program.





30 NOVEMBER, SUNDAY


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11.00-13.00
“Condemned Twice” (documentary/rights of incarcerated) 5', director – A. Suhanova, Belarus. Panorama
“Addictions” (documentary/drug addiction) 5', director – A. Suhanova, Belarus. Panorama
“Life Puzzle” (documentary/ drug addiction) 5', director – A. Suhanova, Belarus. Panorama
“Test” (short film/AIDS) 7', director – M. Kostrov, Ukraine. Non-competition program
“It’s in the Genes” (short film/rights of sexual minorities) 10', director – Ryan Shafer, Don Burnet, USA. Panorama
Mimoune” (short film/emigration) 11', director – Gonzalo Ballester, Spain. Panorama
“Casting. Love Movie” (short film/human rights) 12', director – A. Alymova, Ukraine. Non-competition program
“Vrij Zijn” (documentary/rights of incarcerated) 28', director – Mirko Dreiling, the Netherlands. Panorama
“Seeking the Good Life” (short film/suicides, drug addiction) 31', director – Kelly Saxberg, USA. Panorama

13.00-15.00
“American Soldier” (documentary/war in Iraq) 2', director – Robert Jones, USA/Iraq. Non-competition program
“Virtual freedom” (animation/human rights) 5', director – Jeff Sens, Mong Mong Aye/Australia. Non-competition program.
“My truth about AIDS” (documentary/AIDS) 30', director – R.Zavgorodniy, Ukraine – Non-competition program
“Music partisans” (documentary/Lucashenko political system) 52', director – Myroslav Dembrinski, Poland. Non-competition program
“LINX against fur” (short video/ animal rights) 3', "LINX", USA

15.00-17.00
“God, please” (documentary/ human rights) 40', director – K. Pavlov, Russia – Non-competition program
“No anesthesia” (feature film/human rights) 100', director – A.Sashneva, Russia. Panorama

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11.00-13.00
“An Eye for an Eye Makes the World Go Blind” (documentary/death penalty) 8', director – Ozlem Sariyldiz, Turkey. Competition program
“The Hunted” (documentary/problems of indigenous people) 30', director – Shaji Pattanam, India. Competition program
“IHO. Iron Heel of Oligarchy” (feature film/Kosovo Repressions) 68', director – A. Bashirov, Russia. Competition program.

13.00-15.00
“Behind the Red Wall: chasing Falungun” (documentary/human rights) 55', director – Peter Raw Canada/China. Competition program
“Brad - one night more on the barricades” (documentary/human rights, against globalization) 55', director – Miguel Castro, Brazil/Spain. Competition program

15.00-17.00
“Cheeeese…” (short film/war in Iraq) 12', director – Hussein Tabak, Ausria/Germany. Competition program
“Femine 33” (feature film/the Hunger) 90', director – O. Yanchuk, Ukraine. Competition program

17.00-18.00
“Killing free zone” (documentary/animal rights) 15', director – I. Novozhilova, Russia. Competition program
“You shall not kill” (documentary/ animal rights) 52', director – Igor Kapitalist, Vyacheslav Stasenko, Ukraine. Competition program

18.00-19.00
Press conference with the festival organizers
The conference participants: Igor Parfenov – Head of the Festival, Stanislav Kucher – (an anchorman of “Top Secret”, Russia), Vladimir Koshevoy, Elena Polyakova, Ilona Gontsovskaya (Latvia, Riga), Alina Grossou, Foma (band “Mandry”), Kamalia, Nina Matvienko, Konstantin Sabinin, Irina Novozhilova (rights defense organization VITA, Russia), Igor Kapitalist, Vyacheslav Stasenko – festival participants.


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13.00-15.00
“Whose Skin Are You In?” (short video/animal rights) 4', PETA, USA. Competition program
“Rock-monologue. Yuriy Morozov” (documentary/human rights) 69', director – Vladimir Kozlov, Russia. Competition program

15.00-17.00
“LA MASSERIA DELLE ALLODOLE” (feature film/the Holocaust of Armenians) 115', director – Pablo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy/Bulgaria/France/Great Britain/Spain. Competition program

17.00 - 19.00
Closing film “Osama” (feature film/human rights), 80', director – Siddik Barmak, Afganistan/the Netherlands/Japan. Panorama

19.00-21.00
Closing of the festival. Concert program (Alina Grosu, show-band “Charly”, Kamilia, band “Mandry”, band “Millenium” etc.). Award Ceremony.


“Kiev” Cinema

19.00-21.00
“Raman. Travelogue of Invasion” (feature film/human rights) 80', director – Dr. Biju, India – world opening night. Competition program