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Q&A w/ production designer of Honeymoon - Rita Kulyk

+ SCREENING of Honeymoon (2025) by Zhanna Ozirna


ABOUT Rita Kulyk

Rita Kulyk is a Ukrainian artist and production
designer currently based in Vienna, Austria.
She studied scenography at the National Academy
of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv.
Her practice includes short and feature films that
have been screened at festivals such as Venice, San Sebastián, and Karlovy Vary. The feature film La Palisada she made as a production designer was selected
by the Ukrainian Film Committee to represent
Ukraine at the 97th Academy Awards.
She also worked on commercials and music videos
as a team member of Cinema Syndicate
in Kyiv.
Rita is a co-founder and program co-curator of a
charity initiative “Kriegsbilder” in Vienna.

WHEN: 17.04.2026, 16:30h
WHERE: Die Angewandte, Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7, 1030, Vienna
ENTRY: free, we gather donations for on site

See you this Friday! 🩶

SCREENING: Honeymoon by Zhanna Ozirna
+ Q&A with production designer Rita Kulyk



WHEN: 17.04.2026, 16:30h
WHERE: Die Angewandte, Auditorium, Vordere Zollamtsstrasse 7, 1030, Vienna
ENTRY: free, we gather donations for on site

ABOUT HONEYMOON

Honeymoon
fiction feature film, 84min, 2024

No one is ready to wake up once from explosions outside with no plan, no life perspective anymore. Trapped under occupation in own apartment couple has to discover fear, despair, love and hope.

Screening will be followed with a discussion with Rita Kulyk - production designer of the film.

See you soon!

with support of .angewandte

PRELUDE: screening + discussion with

WHEN: 02.12.2025, 20h
WHERE: Fortuna Cinema, Favoritenstraße 147, 1100 Wien
ENTRY: donation for

Introducing our guest and director of the film – Alina Panasenko 🥀

Alina Panasenko is a director, screenwriter and visual artist, b.2000 (Severodonetsk, Ukraine) and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Member of Ukrainian Film Academy. Studied in Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (screenwriter), Serhiy Melnychenko MYPH School (conceptual and art photography), Pinchuk Art Centre curatorial course. Sarajevo Talents Alumna. In her practice she researches on the nature of image itself, as well as eroticism within the visual culture, history and politics.

About Alina’s work 🥀

“Three episodes and an epilogue. Anna films men she meets in Kyiv, whether by accident or intention. She seeks partners open to one-night encounters. With her camera, she caresses their faces, shoulders, pelvises and smiles. Anna collects their phone numbers, documents and savours the closeness. She spends a night with a soldier, going through her private archive together and confronting a reality and intimacy she had previously turned her back on.
Accompanied by Barbie-pink opening credits and set to English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s What Power Art Thou, the hidden Ukraine unfolds through the eyes of the protagonist. It is not quite a diary of a call girl; however, as director Panasenko notes, the short film presents an unusual encounter between “us” and “them” by employing the conventions of the erotic drama subgenre. The filmmaker also effectively reflects on the objectification of the army, the archetypal masculinity underpinning the military and its way of life, and the (im)possibility of intimacy during war, occasionally alluding to David Wark Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).”
(text from Riga IFF)

See you there!🥀

SCREENING: Prelude by Alina Panasenko
+ discussion with

WHEN: 02.12.2025, 20h
WHERE: Fortuna Kino, Favoritenstrasse 147, 1100 Wien
*please note, the cinema functions as a erotic cinema outside of the program
ENTRY: donation at the doors (fundraiser tba)

ABOUT PRELUDE 🥀

Prelude
fiction film, 14min, 2025

While roaming through the streets of wartime Kylv, Anna discreetly flms men passing by. Her search for a one-night stand ends in an unexpected meeting with a soldier. Distant observation leads her into the unsettling collision with reality.

Screening will be followed with a discussion with Alina Panasenko - director of the film.

See you soon! 🥀

*Please, note that there is no space for storing bigger bags. Big bags or backpack are not allowed in the cinema room due to fire safety.

with support of .angewandte

SCREENING + Q&A and Talk
w/ Yaroslav Tatarchenko - composer of the film

WHEN: 25.10.2025, 14h

Songs of Slow Burning Earth (2024)

A crowd of people are waiting in line to catch a train out of Kyiv. In a bread factory, workers continue to pull steaming pastries from the oven as bombs rumble in the distance. One particular moment cuts through time: a convoy of coffins moves through the landscape as local residents kneel by the roadside in silent respect. Over two years, Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba (‘Outside’, CPH:DOX 2022) has documented the everyday drama of her country during a barbaric war.

Each scene is its own chapter. The result is a panoramic epic of colossal, tragic weight. But also with small glimpses of light. From the first explosions and panicked evacuations to an everyday life where schoolchildren routinely seek shelter in bomb shelters and women search for their dead husbands in morgues. Alternately, the camera moves closer to and further away from the frontline.

‘Songs of Slow Burning Earth’ is a powerful work that depicts the mental transformation that occurs when war becomes everyday life. A testament to the human ability to adapt – and the ultimate tragedy of having to do just that.

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WUK / Museumsraum rechts WUK,
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna

Free entry, no festival tickets required 🖇️

UNCOMMON GROUNDS

exhibition by Kriegsbilder in a frame of Sonic Territories 2025

OPENING: 21.10.2025, 17h
DURATION: 22.10–25.10.2025

OPENING HOURS:
Tue, Wed, Thu: 17–21h;
Fri, Sat: 14–20h

🗝️
The exhibition features artworks united by a collective yet deeply personal chronicle of the war in Ukraine. It explores the dichotomy of collective memory—on one hand, the unity found in shared loss and terror, and on the other, the fragmentation caused by differing perceptions and experiences.

ARTISTS:

Mark Chehodaiev @9.001silversun
Margo Dubovska
Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Ryta Kulyk
Leo Trotsenko
Yuliia Sudarchykova

See you there! 🗝️

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WUK / Museumsraum rechts WUK,
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna

Free entry, no festival tickets required 🖇️

Kriegsbilder x Sonic Territories 2025

We start to share more details about our upcoming program in collaboration with 🤍

🖇️
SCREENING + Q&A and Talk w/ Anna Onufrienko

“Enthusiasm (Symphony of Donbass)” (1930)
documentary by Dziga Vertov

13:30h, 24.10.2025

🖇️ ABOUT THE FILM

Documentary about how the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.

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WUK / Museumsraum rechts WUK,
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna

Free entry, no festival tickets required 🖇️

More info coming soon, stay tuned!
🖤

Kriegsbilder x Sonic Territories 2025

We are thrilled to announce our program in collaboration with at

🖇️EXHIBITION
“Uncommon Grounds”

Opening 21.10.2025
Duration: 22-25.10.2025

🖇️SCREENING + Q&A and Talk w/

“Enthusiasm (Symphony of Donbass)” (1930)
documentary by Dziga Vertov

13:30h, 24.10.2025

🖇️SCREENING + Q&A and Talk
w/ Yaroslav Tatarchenko - composer of the film

“Songs of Slow Burning Earth” (2024)
documentary by Olha Zhurba

14:00h, 25.10.2025

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WUK / Museumsraum rechts
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna

Free entry, no festival tickets required 🖇️

More info coming soon, stay tuned!
🖤

We are happy to announce that we collected 1.600€ during Vidlunnia on 13.07.2025 🌬️

The whole amount was forwarded to to to purchase and repair a house for one family from Novopavlivka.

Thank you so much for being with us and donating, it wouldn’t be possible without you! 🤍

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photos by
lights by

See you soon!

ABOUT KHARPP
*all proceeds from Vidlunnia will be donated TO KHARPP

KHARPP was founded in 2022 with the aim of helping Ukrainians who, at the start of the full-scale invasion, were crossing the border into Poland.**
In its early period, the foundation also provided assistance to the civilian population of Kharkiv.

KHARPP’s current goal is to purchase and repair a house for one family from Novopavlivka so they can begin a new life with a sense of stability and peace.

In the absence of adequate state support for housing internally displaced persons (IDPs), many are living in dire conditions. Some decide to invest all their savings into purchasing small houses in relatively safer areas of Ukraine, hoping to find at least minimal stability. This decision is often made by the most vulnerable IDPs: people with disabilities, large families, and owners of livestock or pets. These houses cost up to €10,000 and are typically in poor condition. In recent months, we have focused on repairing precisely these types of homes: restoring windows, roofs, gas systems, wells, and installing bathrooms and kitchens. Assistance within this program is only available to those who have managed to purchase at least some form of housing on their own. Still, most people from Novopavlivka are unable to afford even the cheapest property and, despite extremely difficult living conditions, are forced to rent.

All proceeds from Vildunnia will go to KHARPP to purchase and repair a house for one family from Novopavlivka.

See you this Sunday at 18:30 at
Tickets at the doors

See you there!
🖤

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Supported by SHAPE+, a European platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.