Remembering Babyn Yar: Spell Your Name

The special film series Remembering Babyn Yar on Film has been curated for this year’s Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin as a joint project between UFFB and the University of Potsdam’s Institute of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies (Department of German-Jewish Literature).

The program comprises two films that represent the complex cinematic memory of Babyn Yar from different historical periods and contexts. Both address fundamental questions concerning the representability of the Holocaust and the role of testimony.

Remembering Babyn Yar: A Curated Film Series Marking the 85th Anniversary of the Babyn Yar Massacre

The program comprises two films that represent the complex cinematic memory of Babyn Yar from different historical periods and contexts. Both address fundamental questions concerning the representability of the Holocaust and the role of testimony.

Both screenings will be accompanied by discussions with experts: Irine Beridze (University of Potsdam, literary and film scholar), Anna Onufriienko (a cultural studies researcher, film historian, and curator specializing in Soviet cinema, visual propaganda, and cinematic representations of the Donbas region), and Bozhena Kozakevych (Historian, research associate for the German-Polish House at the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe).

Presented in cooperation between the Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin and the University of Potsdam's Institute of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies (Department of German-Jewish Literature).