
Babyn Yar: in search of memory
41
min
Ukraina
Babyn Yar: in search of memory
People walk along the paths of the park among the various monuments and do not always remember that this is the site of the most terrible tragedy - the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Roma who were killed because of their faith, nationality, and profession. Volodymyr Chepel's film tells the story of Babyn Yar, the tragedies of World War II, and Kurenivka. This film is about hope for the lessons of memory, hope that such tragedies will never happen again.

Director
Volodymyr Cheppel
Is a cinematographer, director and producer from Donetsk. He has been making documentaries since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since 2014, he has been working on various documentary and fiction projects as a cameraman and producer. As a cameraman, he has worked with SBS Dateline, BBC, Al Jazeera and other media productions. As a producer, he worked on the following films: "Headlong (dir. Maryna Stepanka), 2017; Rhino (dir. Oleg Sentsov), 2021.
