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Kyiv Post reports an award-winning film scheduled to appear last month at an international documentary festival has been banned.
The film, ‘Pit Number 8’, is a Ukrainian-Estonian collaboration about child labour in abandoned mines. It has won 10 awards at international festivals. Oddly, the film was banned by its own producer:
“This film is deceitful and staged. It has nothing to do with documentaries and human rights issues,” said Interfilm production studio, the Ukrainian co-producers of the film, in a letter sent to Docudays Festival organizers. Your festival would violate copyright if the film is shown at the festival.”
The film is set around the Sykanov family, and shows the tragic demise of Ukraine’s coal mining in Donetsk region in the 1990-2000s, when the desperate residents of the town of Snezhnoe started digging for coal illegally and just about everywhere. Child labour was not uncommon then.
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I am a mining engineer and was born and grew up in Ukraine but live and work in Canada now. When I read this headline “…child miners in Ukraine…” , BS was the first thought that came into my mind. I’ve lived and worked in Africa and I can see it there but not Ukraine. So I am not a bit surprised that its been staged and massaged to make it worst