Olha Zhurba
Olha Zhurba is a Ukrainian filmmaker whose first short fiction film Dad’s Sneakers premiered in the short competition at Locarno Film Festival in 2021 and won Best Ukrainian Short and FIPRESCI awards at the Odessa Film Festival and the National Film Critics Award Kinokolo. Zhurba is also an editor for award-winning documentary films like Home Games (2018) and This Rain Will Never Stop (2020). Outside, here first feature documentary, was presented at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival.
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Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
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Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
