Films by Artem Funk

Director, Sound
CHRONICLES OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Germany 2023, 92 min
by Kaja Polivaeva, Artem Funk

Shot in Kyiv, Bucha and Hostomel in May 2022 the film shows several eyewitnesses of the war, who share their experiences of Russian occupation as well as their further thoughts about the current state of being.

Chronicles of the Middle Ages
MY DAD, THE MONK

Germany 2018, 52 min
by Anastasia Vinokurova

Tbilisi, Georgia: the eleven-year-old orphan Barbare has found unusual parents. Together with 17 other children she lives in a Christian Orthodox monastery. They are cared for by monks and nuns in a loving and unconventional way, and all live together as one large family. But this summer everything will be different, because Father Johannes, the monastery's leader, whom everyone calls Papa, suddenly has a new plan…

My Dad, the Monk
OF HUGE AND SMALL

2017, 26 min
by Artem Funk

The film portrays a young human rights activist in russian Murmansk, who shares her thoughts and feelings about her ‘active life position’ in the current days.“The question is not whether we’re afraid. The question is what we do when we’re afraid”, says the activist Zhanna, who lives in Murmansk and has been classified as a ‘hostile agent’ by the security forces for the past few years. Zhanna lives with her fear and still speaks out about the present political situation – in Russia and elsewhere

Of Huge and Small