Glyadyelov

"Glyadyelov" is a documentary saga about creativity and inner world, philosophy and deeds, life and work of a famous Ukrainian documentary photographer Oleksander Glyadyelov, but in fact it is a film about love, pain and thirst for freedom, about Ukraine and Ukrainians. The plot of the film is based on psychological immersion in the subjects of Glyadyelov's photographs.The image of the main character is exposed through communication with his friends, the heroes of his photos and, of course, observing his life and work. Since Glyadyelov works (and has always worked) with black-and-white photography taken on film, our film is made in the same visual concept. Oleksander Glyadyelov's photo exhibitions are held all over the world, because his view of the war in Ukraine is the most honest picture of the epochal events for the whole world. "I saw the wars in Chechnya and Karabakh, Kyrgyzstan and Transnistria, I have been photographing the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2014. I was wounded twice. I have seen and know how Russia fights. I knew that there would be a big war and it will be extremely cruel, because Russia cannot do otherwise. All these years I tried to warn with my photos, to draw attention to this terrible danger. Now, after 02/24/22, my photos are my weapon. The world should know what is happening here," says Oleksander Glyadyelov. The narrators of the film are Glyadyelov's photographs and the people depicted in them. "Glyadyelov" is a film of observation, a film of voyeurism. Traveling with the photographer from Kyiv and Bucha to Kharkiv, Odesa, and Ilovaisk, from the 1990s to 2022, from homeless street children to the terrifying wars unleashed by Russia, the viewer becomes a conversationalist with the film's heroes. And together with Oleksandr Glyadyelov, they traverse the path from the inevitability of current events to confidence in the triumph of good.