The first episode of the documentary “Neighbours. Last Witnesses of Ukrainian genocide in Poles” by Jack Międlar won the main prize at the Ardelion European movie Association. The manager emphasizes that this is simply a discrimination of peculiar importance, because, as he points out, it allows to introduce the subject of Ukrainian genocide in Poles into the European cultural circulation.
The first episode of the series depicts the destiny of Poles surviving in the Borders of the Second Republic, who were victims of crimes committed during planet War II. The subject remains marginalized and distorted in Poland – both by limiting the scale of genocide to Volyn and by lowering the number of victims.
The author of the series besides powerfully questions the communicative that brings work exclusively to the OUN-UPA structures, indicating that the crimes were of a broader nature and besides active the lion's part of the local population. As he emphasizes, the victims were mainly civilians – women, children and the aged – and the cruelty of many eyewitness accounts inactive shakes up today.
As he points out, the subject is besides dispelled from the global debate, including by identifying events as "Polish-Ukrainian War" and by relativising the work of perpetrators. As a result, the cognition of these events in the West remains very limited.
Jacek Międlar announced his success at the festival on social media:
‘I won. First episode Neighbors He won at a prestigious movie festival attended by artists from all over the world. This is simply a immense achievement, especially since I competed with productions carried out at multimillion budgets. I have shown that you can make a professional video from the bottom up and independently.”
The manager besides noted that the festival brought together artists from many countries and cultures, and the show caused many talks and interest in genocide:
"Despite the language barrier, I spoke and told about the crimes in Poles and the blocking of exhumation. Many participants approached, questioned, wanted to learn more."
As he added, the award at the Ardelion European movie Association is not the only global award – the show besides received nominations at another festivals in Western Europe.
"I am taking the fact about Ukrainian genocide in Poles to the European arena. All those who support me – thank you – summed up the creator.
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Short movie coverage from the festival:
Jacek Międlar spoke to ed. Piotr Barełkowski about the festival:
