‘Close Relations - Vitaliy Manskiy’

In the presence of Vitaliy Manskiy & Yuliia Sinkevych (producer)

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia.

Vitaly Mansky – biography

Vitaly Mansky was born in Lvov, Ukraine. He studied film at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His directorial credits include the documentaries Broadway, Black Sea (02), Gagarin’s Pioneers (05), Virginity (08), Motherland or Death (11), Pipeline (13), and Under the Sun (15). Rodnye (16) is his latest film.

- Nomination for Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2016

- Documentary section, Toronto International Film Festival, 2016

- International Competition, DOK Leipzig, 2016