Life to the Limit
When we are pushed to our limits, what emerges -- fear, courage, or truth?
29 November 17:00Emerge Lakefront
Life to the Limit, 2023, Dir. Pavlo Peleshok (Ukraine) 1h 47'
From the Revolution of Dignity to full-scale war: successful Ukrainian film producers took up arms to defend the country and cameras to record the gruesome reality. From the fragments of memories and their own film archive, veterans Pavlo and Yurko assemble a mosaic of the causes and consequences of today's Russian-Ukrainian war - from the end of 2013 to today.
The authors went to the front as volunteers, visited the hotspots of Donbas, created the home-made drone "Furia", which is now named after one of the best air reconnaissance units. And all this time they continued to create in order to show the world the truth about the terrible war that became possible in the 21st century. Trailer.
In conversation with
Tetiana Staneva, an ethnographic filmmaker, foreign correspondent from Ukraine, and founder and director of the Ukrainian OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival. OKO was born in Bessarabia, Ukraine in 2020 and held yearly in Ukraine and Bulgaria as a bridge between cultures and places, a response to disinformation, and, in times of war, as a cultural lifeline. Her works include Place of Power (2018), Letters from the War. Letter 1: The Pulse of Ukraine (2024), From Bloom to Flame (2025), and Her/Вона (forthcoming).
The Life to the Limit event is realised as part of the series OKO Stockholm: Voices of Ukraine, initiated by the Gergina Foundation and co-missioners. Please check the main page for Information on other events in the period Nov 27-30, 2025.
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Emerge Lakefront
Herbert Widmans väg 5A 128 64 Sköndal Sweden
All you need to know
WHEN: Thursday, 29.11, 14:30 - 18:00
WHERE: Emerge Lakefront - a residential community program of inner development for global impact, Herbert Widmans väg 5A, 128 64 Sköndal.
PROGRAM:
17:00 - 17:30 Doors open: connecting
17:30- 18:00 00 Welcome & OKO SHORTS screening
18:00- 19:50 Film Screening "Life To The Limit"
20:00- 21:00 Q&A with Tetiana Staneva and an embodied sharing process
ENTRY: This event is FREE, however donations are encouraged, according to willingness and capacity, in support of OKO and Ukrainian artists.
A separate campaign for OKO and the 88th Battalion of Ukraine will also be presented.
REGISTRATION: Please register your interest & reserve your seat for this event, clicking on the button below -- this will help us plan. Thank you!
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Your Hosts
Yuliia Naydich
ducator from Ukraine specialised in pedagogy and education for liberation and consciousness development, co-founder of the Center for Transformative Research "Third Floor", bridging mind, heart and will.
Georgia Efremova
Anthropologist and social development practitioner from Bulgaria, founder of the Gergina Human Development Foundation. Former European policy-maker with doctoral research in nationalism, polarisation and identity-making. Practitioner of NVC, psychodrama, and dance movement supporting collective liberation.
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Gergina HDF
georgia.efremova@gergina.org