Making Movies for the Soul in Ukraine w/ Sashko Chubko and Valeria Sochyvets

Listen to our podcast conversation with Sashko Chubko and Valeria Sochyvets, producers of La Palisiada, presented at the 2023 San Sebastián International Film Festival.

TFV’s Matt Micucci speaks with Sashko Chubko and Valeria Sochyvets, producers of La Palisiada, in his first on-location Showcast episode from the 2023 San Sebastián Film Festival. La Palisiada marks the feature directorial debut of Philip Sotnichenko and has been making waves on the festival scene this year, having won awards in Rotterdam and Sarajevo.

The film is is described as a police detective neo-noir set in the last months of capital punishment in Ukraine in 1996. Find out more about it in this episode of the Showcast, where we also talk about the role of the arts during times of war in Ukraine and the collective of filmmakers that are making an impact on the country’s independent scene, making movies not for money but for the soul.