My favorite job | Film by Sashko Protyah/Zaporizhzhia
The film ”My favorite job” by Sashko Protyah/Zaporizhzhia is a different kind of road movie. It documents how volunteers try to evacuate people from the city of Mariupol, that was surrounded by Russian armed forces, in March 2022.
My favorite job by Sashko Protyah/Zaporizhzhia
2022, 31 Min., with english subtitles
The film documents the evacuation of Mariupol in the spring of 2022 after the city was surrounded by Russian troops and civilian targets were heavily bombed on a daily basis. In mid-March 2022, volunteers began evacuating people from Mariupol to Zaporizhia. They met after each trip to share information, support each other and talk about their traumatic experiences.
The film My favorite job is followed by a conversation, to which we welcome the musician Olesia Onykiienko/Kyyiv. We will also try to add director Sashko Protyah/Zaporizhzhia via Zoom to the conversation.
Sashko Protyah, is a film director and activist from Mariupol
He is co-founder of Freefilmers, a collective of artists and filmmakers who, as Freefilmers Mariupol raise funds to support local activists and refugees, among other things.
In his films, Sashko works with themes such as memory, being different and alienation.
He currently lives in Zaporizhzhia/Ukraine and does voluntary work for internally displaced people and the Ukrainian army.
