This Rain Will Never Stop
Date and time:
Monday 22 November, 2021
18:15 - 20:00
Location:
Bertha DocHouse
Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick Centre, WC1N 1AW
London
Director: Alina Gorlova
Genre: Documentary Year: 2020 Duration: 102 min
Language: Kurdish / Arabic / Ukrainian / Russian / German with English subtitles
Age rating: 15
Fleeing the Syrian civil war, Andriy and his Kurdish family start a new life in a small town in eastern Ukraine, only to be caught up in another military conflict. This visually arresting documentary takes a powerful look at humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace.
Between 22 November and 6 December, This Rain Will Never Stop will be available to watch for free online via our film festival web platform.
There will also be an in-person screening at Bertha Dochouse in London on 22 November 2021 at 18:20. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Alina Horlova (via Zoom) and Dr Kamran Matin (Senior Lecturer, Sussex University), hosted by Dr Olesya Khromeychuk (Director of the Ukrainian Institute London).
Speaker (via Zoom)
Alina Horlova
Alina Horlova is a director and film editor. Born and raised in Ukraine, she graduated from Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film & Television. In addition to her focus as a documentary director, Alina is also experienced in making fiction shorts, and social and commercial ads. In 2016, she completed her first feature-length documentary, Kholodny Yar. Intro, which screened at the Odesa IFF (Ukraine) and Artdocfest (Moscow, Russia). Her second documentary, No Obvious Signs, tells the story of a female Ukrainian soldier who undergoes rehabilitation for post-traumatic stress. The film has won multiple awards, including the MDR film award for outstanding Eastern European Movie at DokLeipzig 2018. Alina was a 2019 Berlinale Talents participant.
Speaker
Dr Kamran Matin
Kamran Matin is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, UK, where he teaches international history, international theory, and Middle East politics. He is the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016), and several articles and op-eds on Kurdish politics. He is currently working on a manuscript provisionally entitled Between Class and Nation: Kurdish Communism in the Revolutionary Iran, 1968-1991. Kamran is also the co-editor of Palgrave’s Minorities in West Asia and North Africa (MWANA) series.
Moderator
Dr Olesya Khromeychuk
Olesya Khromeychuk is the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London. She is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She is the author of ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (2013) and A Loss. The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister (2021).
