(N)OSTALGIA (2016—)
Feature-length creative documentary
(N)OSTALGIA was a documentary feature film in development between 2015—2017, which later became NOSTALGIA, a film shot in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine between 2018—2021.
Credits
Written, Directed and Produced by Vicki Thornton
Camera: Jean-Louis Schuller
Producer: Nadia Parfan
Development Producers: Marion Guth, Stéphane Hueber-Blies
Contributors (Svalbard): Alexandr Romanovsky, Piotr Putseruk, Radmir Sadykov, Denis Bodarykin, Ivan Dementiev, Aleksandr Yakimovich, Natalia Venetskaya, Ferdinando Sacchetti, Svetlana Serova, Daniil Tuynuymin, Torleiv Lohne, Maurice Sidra, Pierre Puts, Nurkamila Binte Mord Ali, Havashini Ramani, Niclas Rantala, Anmoret Topp, Shih-Bin Yang, David Neila, Juliane Lidig, Rigmar Aasrud, Henrik Danielzon, Tobias Ericsson, Roman Nemaev, Gunnar Fredriksen, Eva Pernilla Nilsson, Anders Norling, Thomas Hanson, Peter Tubaas, Sin Rooseboom de Vries
Teaser
Duration: 3 minutes
Press
DocWorks: UA/UK. A Documentary Workshop in Practice (4 May 2017)
Blaney, Martin. ‘Tallinn: Ghost town doc wins Screen Best Pitch award’ in Screen Daily (24 Nov 2016)
Sandwell, Ian. ‘DocWorks brings together UK and Ukrainian filmmakers’ in Screen Daily (10 June 2016)
Bassel, Darya. ‘A focus on the idea’, DocuDays UA International Human Rights Festival (2016)
Project Partners
The development of (N)OSTALGIA was made possible with the financial support of Creative Europe’s MEDIA programme, Film Fund Luxembourg, the British Council in Ukraine, and Queen Mary University of London, with additional support from Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The project was initially developed through the British Council Ukraine, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival’s DocWorks UA/UK programme (2016) and later became NOSTALGIA, a film shot in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine between 2016 and 2021.
It was presented in progress at When East Meets West (WEMW) co-production forum, Trieste, Italy (2019); DocuTalents @ KVIFF (13th edition), organised by the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic (2017); Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (2017); Industry@ Tallinn & Baltic Event Co-Production Market, PÖFF 20 Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia (2016); EDN European Documentary Network Market Mentors Pitch, Sheffield Doc/Fest (2016); 12th DOKLeipzig Co-Production Market, DOKLeipzig 59th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (2016); Euro Connection Co-Production Forum, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2015); and the LUX Experimenta Production Pitch, 59th BFI London Film Festival (2015).
It was awarded the KWA Sound Production Prize at Docudays Festival in 2017 and the Screen International Award at DOKLeipzig in 2016.
