Chornobyl 22 directed by Oleksiy Radynski will open the Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival which will take place from August 10 – 22, 2023 in Seoul, Korea.

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. (Nemaf 2023)

About the director:
Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. His films experiment with documentary forms and practices of political cinema. They have been screened at film festivals and in art contexts worldwide, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), e-flux (New York), Docudays (Kyiv) etc. His latest film Chornobyl 22 won the Grand Prix at Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2023.

For more information, please visit: https://www.nemaf.net/main