Film Cycle: In Spring. Films from Ukraine | Second Session: Representational Collapse
10 June 2026 | 19:00 – 21:30
FILM CYCLE in collaboration with Filmoteca Española: In Spring. Films from Ukraine
Curated by Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk in collaboration with TBA21.
In Spring. Films from Ukraine, organized alongside the exhibition Pedagogías de guerra at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, brings together a series of short films by the artists Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk and complementary works by other artists and filmmakers to explore how historical and ongoing conflicts continue to shape spaces, social relations, and individual subjectivities. The program engages with themes of youth and everyday life in conflict, historical memory and the legacy of war, as well as migration, borders, and Europe in transition. Together, these works highlight the persistent traces of past and present upheavals, showing how cinema can serve as a space to navigate the complex interplay of forgetting and remembering.
As political and social systems collapse, so too do the images and narratives that once sustained them. This section brings together films that confront the limits of representation, exploring moments in which cinema can no longer fully contain transition, trauma, or historical rupture.
Date and time: June 10, 2026, 19:00h
Location: Cine Doré, Madrid
Access: Ticket sales at the box office until full capacity is reached. A quota of 10% of the capacity is reserved for entry without a prior ticket on the day of the event.
Recommended age: All audiences are welcome
Language: Original version with Spanish subtitles
Session duration: approximately 139 min
PROGRAM
SHORT FILM BY ROMAN KHIMEI & YAREMA MALASHCHUK:
Additional Scenes (UA, 2023, 19 min)
Additional Scenes follows Ukrainian actor Pavlo Aldoshyn, who, after playing the lead role in Sniper. The White Raven—a film about the 2014 Russian-Ukrainian war—joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine following the full-scale invasion in 2022. The film portrays his brief return from the front line to Kyiv, where he reenacts fragments of civilian life, confronting a reality that now feels strangely distant and unfamiliar. His perception of reality shifts visibly: everyday civilian existence begins to resemble fiction, accessible only through performance, as if it required acting skills to be experienced authentically. Through this displacement, the film reflects on the blurred boundaries between military and civilian identities in contemporary Ukraine, questioning how empathy, normality, and coexistence are reshaped in a society defined by war.
FEATURE FILM
La Palisiada (UA, 2023, 120 min), by Philip Sotnychenko
Ukraine, 1996. Five months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, are drawn into the investigation of the murder of a former colleague. Years earlier, both had been in love with the victim’s widow. As the case unfolds, it gradually reopens long-buried memories, blurring the line between past and present, and leading them to confront the future they are silently shaping: one in which their children will live, bearing the weight of their parents’ unresolved desires and unfulfilled ambitions.
