The Ukrainian Film Festival NRW and the ‘Film&Dialog’ programme are also being hosted at Paderborn University this year. On Friday 10 July, there will be a screening of the award-winning Ukrainian feature film “Honeymoon” (“Медовий Місяць”) by director Zhanna Ozirna, which will also serve as the basis for a subsequent panel discussion. The screening begins at 6 pm in Lecture Theatre G. Free registration is available online.
Released in 2024, the film centres on a young couple whose honeymoon in 2022 is interrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Following the film, director Zhanna Ozirna, film producer Olha Matat, film scholar Jun.-Prof. Dr Julia Eckel from Paderborn University, and cultural studies scholar and journalist Dr Hanna Starkova, with Julia Chenusha, Managing Director of DUWir gGmbH, acting as moderator. Topics to be addressed include the role of film and the media in the construction of social realities, disinformation and narratives in conflict and transformation processes, as well as resilience, media literacy and the responsibility of the media, cultural practitioners and civil society.
The event is organised by the Ukrainian Culture Network e. V., DUWir gGmbH, EVOS FILM Production, the Institute of Media Studies at Paderborn University, and the Ukrainian-German Friendship Association e.V., and is supported by the commitment of Global gGmbH with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Film&Dialog
‘Film&Dialog’ is an event format within the project ‘Disinformation as a Global Instrument of Power: Film, Media and Social Resilience’, which takes place as part of the Ukrainian Film Days NRW 2026 within the Europe-Dialogue NRW–Ukraine. The film serves as a starting point for an in-depth examination of the mechanisms and effects of global disinformation. The aim is to strengthen media literacy and critical awareness as a contribution to a resilient, democratic society.
Ukrainian Film Days NRW
The Ukrainian Film Days NRW were founded in 2023 and have since established themselves as an important platform for German-Ukrainian cultural exchange in North Rhine-Westphalia. This year, they are supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the State Initiative ‘Europa-Schecks’ of the Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Head of the State Chancellery, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and the Gerhart Hauptmann House Foundation.
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