Critical Condition

КРИТИЧНЕ СТАНОВИЩЕ
Germany
2025
Fiction
24 min.

Director | Mila Zhluktenko
Script | Mila Zhluktenko
Director of photography | Tobias Blickle
Editing | Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
Sound designer | Gerhard Auer, Philip Hutter
Composer | Marja Burchard
Main cast |
Ihor Shulha, Vita Smachelyuk, Sebastian Anton, Lisa Moskalenko, Volodymyr Melnyk, Yevgen Bondarskyy, Oleksandr Pozharskyi, Valeriia Berezovska, Valeriia Kuzmenko
Producer | Michael Kalb
Production company | Michael Kalb Film Production

Inspired by the events around the life of Lev Rebet, Ukrainian author and editor-in-chief of the Munich-based exile newspaper „Ukrainian Independist“, “Critical Condition” portrays the fates of the Ukrainian diaspora in the past and present.

 

About the director: 

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mila Zhluktenko studied documentary filmmaking at HFF Munich.
Her films have been screened at a number of international festivals including the Berlinale, IDFA, the San Sebastian Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight and at Visions du Réel.
Her current works co-directed with Daniel Asadi Faezi include Aralkum (Juryprize Visions du Réel) and waking up in silence (Juryprize Berlinale Generation KPlus).