The Jam Factory Art Center’s 2025 Film Program is a conversation about the world around us, our place in it, and how cinema works. Film introductions and post-screening discussions will accompany weekly screenings of classics of world cinema and Ukrainian hidden gems.
By integrating cinema into a cultural hub that already hosts exhibitions, theater performances, and musical events, we aim to expand the conversation about films and forge connections between diverse artistic disciplines and audiences.
We will curate several thematic programs in collaboration with Ukrainian filmmakers, distributors, and film festivals.
- “Cult Classics” will revisit beloved—or divisive—films from the past, reflecting on how our views of them have evolved and how cinema, and the world at large, have changed.
- “New Classics” will spotlight more recent films that deserve continued discussion and fresh perspectives.
- “Ukrainian Gems” will showcase Ukrainian films from the post-independence era, starting with the past decade, a period of remarkable resurgence in Ukrainian cinema.
Film screenings will take place every Friday in their original language with Ukrainian or English subtitles.
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The program is curated by Dariia Badior, a journalist, critic, and co-curator of the Kyiv Critics’ Week film festival. Dariia is a member of the European Film Academy and the preparatory committee for the European Press Prize. She currently works as a journalist for Suspilne. Culture and has contributed as a freelancer to numerous Ukrainian and international outlets, including LB.ua, Dwutygodnik, Osteuropa, Hyperallergic, and Der Tagesspiegel.
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Program
November
November 5, 18:30 – The Long Farewell
Director: Kira Muratova
November 12, 18:30 – La Palisiada
Director: Philip Sotnychenko
November 19, 18:30 – Citizen Havel
Director: Pavel Koutecký
November 26, 18:30 – The Sound of Falling
Director: Masha Shilinski
October
September
September 10, 18:30 – Perfect Days
Director: Wim Wenders
September 17, 18:30 – Petite Maman
Director: Céline Sciamma
August
August 6, 18:30 – Songs of a Slow Burning Earth
Director: Olha Zhurba
August 13, 18:30 – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Director: Radu Jude
August 20, 18:30 – We Will Not Fade Away
Director: Alisa Kovalenko — charity screening for donations to the fundraiser
July
July 9, 18:30 – Corsage
Director: Marie Kreutzer
July 16, 18:30 – No Obvious Signs
Director: Alina Gorlova
June
June 11, 18:30 – Godland
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
June 18, 18:30 – Black Level
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
May
May 7 at 18:30 – Infinity: According to Florian
Director: Oleksiy Radinsky
May 21 at 18:30 – Chimera
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
May 28 at 18:30 – Dahomey
Director: Mati Diop
April
April 4 at 18:30 – Divine
Director: Roman Bordun
April 11 at 18:30 – Godland
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
April 18 – Nice Ladies
Director: Maria Ponomarova
April 25 – Anatomy of a Fall
Director: Justine Triet
March
March 7 at 18:30 – Parasites
Director: Bong Joon-ho
March 14 at 18:30 – Crepuscule
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
March 28 at 18:30 – Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Director: Jim Jarmusch
February
February, 7 at 18:30 — Fragments of Ice
Maria Stoyanova, 2024
February, 14 at 18:30 — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma, 2019
February, 20 at 18:30 — All Things Ablaze
Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov, 2015
February, 21 at 18:30 — Varta 1. Lviv. Ukraine
Yuriy Hrytsyna, 2015
February, 28 at 18:30 — The Straight Story
David Lynch, 1999
January
January, 31 at 18:30 — Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer, 2023
