- event type:WOMEX 25 Film Library
- date:23 Oct 2025 - 25 Oct 2025
- time:11:00 - 17:00
- city/area:Tampere
- venue:Film Library, Tampere Hall, Sopraano
- country:Finland
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
Original title: Маланка та Різдво
Directed by Mykola Nosok
Duration 92’ | Ukrainian with English subtitles
The documentary Malanka and Christmas captures the celebration of Malanka just a month before the full-scale Russian invasion and the first Christmas in the newly de-occupied territories of Ukraine’s Slobozhanshchyna and Donechchyna. To show solidarity and revive ancient Ukrainian traditions in these de-occupied areas, young people from across Ukraine came together to perform nativity scenes and bring hope to the east.
Mykola Nosok is a documentary director based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Mykola has worked as the main director at the Ukrainian media platform Ukraïner since 2016. He focuses on such themes as national minorities, Holodomor, Ukrainian identity, the value of memory, and the Russian- Ukrainian war, among others.
Also shown Thursday, 23 October at 18:00, at Arthouse Cinema Niagara, where director Mykola Nosok will be present for Q&A.
Production Country, Year Ukraine, 2024
Produced by Khrystyna Kulakovska
Directors of Photography Olha Oborina, Oleh Solohub
Sound Margaryta Kulichova
Editors Mykola Nosok, Kateryna Cvigun
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