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'''''Ukrainian Sheriffs''''' ({{lang-uk|Українські шерифи}}; Romanized: ''Ukrainski Sherify'') is a 2016 Ukrainian ] directed by {{ interlanguage link | Roman Bondarchuk|uk| Бондарчук Роман Леонідович}}. The film begins as a portrait of a small town which tries to meet its own policing needs but shifts when the ] begins, depicting the war's effects in microcosm. Bondarchuk's first feature-length film, it was workshopped and developed at the ] IDFAcademy and the Dok.incubator program. '''''Ukrainian Sheriffs''''' ({{lang-uk|Українські шерифи}}) is a 2015 Ukrainian ] directed by {{ill|Roman Bondarchuk|uk|Бондарчук Роман Леонідович}}. It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the ] at the ] but it was not nominated.


==Synopsis==
The film won the IDFA Special Jury Award and the ] Mayor of Gdynia Award, and was chosen by the ] as the best domestic non-fiction film of 2016. It ranked 56th on the Ukraine film archives' list of the best films of Ukrainian cinema, and was Ukraine's official selection for foreign-language film at the US ].
Due to a lack of police presence in the Ukrainian village of {{Ill|Stara Zburyivka|uk|Стара Збур'ївка}}, ] Viktor Marunyak assigns the task of protecting the peace to two locals, Viktor Kryvoborodko, aged 50, and Volodymyr Rudkovsky, aged 44. Kryvoborodko and Rudkovsky's work combines the functions of police officers and social workers, as they are tasked with mediating disputes, but not with investigating criminal offenses. The beginning of the ] (2014- ) changes their routine, however - village politics become divided, and the sheriffs are tasked with supporting the Ukrainian war-effort.


== Context == ==Production==
''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' was filmed over four years,<ref>{{cite news|last=Oliynyk|first=Eugenia|title="Українські шерифи": фільм про сільських волонтерів, які "замінили" міліцію|trans-title="Ukrainian Sheriffs": a film about village volunteers who "replaced" the police|url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/27421665.html|work=]|language=uk|date=11 December 2015|access-date=7 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507235302/http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/27421665.html|archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> for a total of nearly 200 hours of footage. The first cut of the film was five hours in length and remained over two hours in length until its sixth cut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kill Your Darlings: Ukrainian Sheriffs|url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/article/29485/kill-your-darlings-ukrainian-sheriffs|work=]|date=17 November 2015|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref>


==Distribution==
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''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' began distribution throughout Europe in February 2016.<ref name=Božanic>{{cite web|last=Broeren-Huitenga|first=Joost|title=Bringing it Home: Sara Božanic about the innovative distribution of Ukrainian Sheriffs|url=https://www.idfa.nl/en/article/82516/bringing-it-home|work=]|date=2 October 2017|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> The film's premiere on German television took place on 4 April 2016 on the Franco-German channel ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ukrainische Sheriffs|url=https://programm.ard.de/TV/Programm/Sender/?sendung=2872417026027453|publisher=]|language=de|date=1 April 2016|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> Distribution of the film in Ukraine began in July 2016 and then in the Baltics and Balkans in September.<ref name=Božanic/>
{{ interlanguage link | Stara Zburyivka|uk| Стара Збур'ївка }} is a Ukrainian agricultural village in the hinterland of ]. It is located about {{convert|70|km}} north of Crimea, at the south-eastern corner of the ] of the Black Sea, surrounded by wetlands and protected forests. In relative isolation, the villagers are used to doing things for themselves without government assistance.<ref name="ARD" /><ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /> During filming the village had a population of approximately 1800,<ref name = "Young2015" /> with different ethnic groups and once had a ] settlement.<ref name = "Trimbach2016" /><ref name = "Oliynyk2015" /> The village has a mix of small but well-kept farmhouses and barns<ref name = "Trimbach2016" /> and dilapidated shacks with overgrown and neglected yards.<ref name = "Young2015" />


==Reception==
Until 2015, Ukraine had a single, nation-wide law-enforcement organization called the ]. The organization was founded during the Soviet era and it was directly involved in ] in Ukraine. The system changed little following independence, continuing to use Soviet-era procedures written in Moscow, with a reputation as the largest, most bureaucratic and corrupt police force in Europe. Bribes were required to gain employment or promotion, for many police interactions<!-- from traffic stops to reports for insurance claims-->, and theft of property from crime scenes was common.<ref name="Peacock2016" /> The militsiya generally did not come to outlying villages like Staraya Zburivka, typically noting difficulty with transport.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />
Ukrainian film critic {{ill|Sergey Trimbach|uk|Тримбач Сергій Васильович}}, writing for ], praised ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' and described Marunyak, Kryvoborodko, and Rudkovsky as role models for Ukraine, and compared the latter two to ].<ref>{{cite news|last=Trimbach|first=Sergey|title=Кіноновації та кіно надії|trans-title=Cinematic innovation and hopeful cinematography|url=https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/kultura/kinonovaciyi-ta-kino-nadiyi|work=]|language=uk|date=23 September 2016|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref> Neil Young, in '']'', described ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' as "an episodic, wryly amusing affair, displaying considerable interest in and sympathy with human foibles."<ref>{{cite web|last=Young|first=Neil|title='Ukrainian Sheriffs': IDFA Review|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ukrainian-sheriffs-idfa-review-846198|work=]|date=7 December 2015|access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref> Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic at '']'', also praised the film and predicted that it would do well at international film festivals.<ref>{{cite news|last=Halligan|first=Fionnuala|title='Ukrainian Sheriffs': Review|url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/ukrainian-sheriffs-review/5097445.article|work=]|date=30 November 2015|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref>


===Accolades===
Staraya Zburivka village council chairman (mayor) Viktor Marunyak had taken action to prevent land theft in the village and was arrested without evidence. Village residents rallied to defend him and secured his release. To prevent further conflicts with the militsiya and attend to the community's need for policing, Marunyak initiated the sheriffs program. Residents Victor Kryvoborodko and Volodya Rudkovsky were elected by their fellow villagers{{efn|Kryvoborodko and Rudkovsky were initially appointed as sheriffs by mayor Marunyak,<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018"/><ref name = Božanic /><ref name = "ARD" /> and later confirmed in this role in a village election.<ref name = "Pravda-2" /><ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />}} as public assistants to the militsiya precinct inspector, combining the roles of policemen and social workers, to ] and settle conflicts before matters became criminal.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />
The ] (NSU) named ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' the Best Ukrainian Non-Fiction Film of 2016 at the {{ill|2017 NSU awards|uk|Премія НСКУ 2017|lt=2017 NSU awards ceremony}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Оголошено переможців Премії НСКУ найкращим вітчизняним фільмам 2016 року|trans-title=The winners of the NSU Award for the best domestic films of 2016|url=http://ukrkino.com.ua/about/spilkanews/?id=7975|publisher=]|date=31 May 2017|language=uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603005228/http://ukrkino.com.ua/about/spilkanews/?id=7975|archive-date=3 June 2017|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> It then added ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' to a shortlist of submissions for the ] category of the ] with '']'' and ''Song of Songs''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Обрано три фільми-кандидати на "Оскар" від України|url=http://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2016/08/31/217458/|work=]|date=31 August 2016|language=uk|access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=На "Оскар" від України номінували фільм "Українські шерифи"|trans-title="Ukrainian Sheriffs" nominated by Ukraine for the Oscars|url=http://life.pravda.com.ua/culture/2016/09/9/217833/|work=]|date=9 September 2016|language=uk|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref> ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' was eventually chosen as Ukraine's submission for the category.<ref name=hwr1>{{cite web|title=Oscars: Ukraine Selects 'Ukrainian Sheriffs' for Foreign-Language Category|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-ukraine-selects-ukrainian-sheriffs-926915|work=]|date=9 September 2016|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ukraine selects its candidate for foreign-language Oscar|url=http://uatoday.tv/entertainment/ukraine-selects-its-candidate-for-foreign-language-oscar-743635.html|work=]|date=9 September 2016|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref>


The film won the ]'s 2015 Special Jury Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ukrainian film awarded with Special Jury Prize at IDFA documentary festival|url=http://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-film-awarded-with-special-jury-prize-at-idfa-documentary-festival-542493.html|work=]|date=26 November 2015|access-date=25 February 2021}}</ref> It also won the Grand Prix at the Docs Against Gravity Festival in Poland, and appeared at a dozen other international film festivals.<ref name=hwr1/>
In 2015, following the ], the militsiya was disbanded and replaced with the ].<ref name="ReutersMilitsiya" /> By September 2015, the Interior Ministry had officially launched its own Ukrainian Sheriffs program, replacing district militsiya officers with newly trained police officers, instructed to develop relationships with every family in the villages and small towns of their districts.<ref name="Police2015" /><ref name = "UATnumbers" />

== Synopsis ==

Sheriff Volodymyr Rudkovsky flinches from wood chips as he chops kindling for a small wood stove. He returns to an anteroom where his partner Sheriff Viktor Kryvoborodko receives a phone call with a report of a man threatening people with an axe. Without their coffee, they drive away in a yellow 1973 ] sedan<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> to investigate, but Kryvoborodko opens the window to finish his cigarette and the car's Ukrainian flag flies away.

They visit an elderly landlord who had sheltered a homeless man over the winter but the man later demanded money to leave the village. The two reportedly fought, resulting in property damage, and the landlord withholds the man's passport for repairs. The Sheriffs find a repairman and agree for the village to pay the expense, the documents are returned and the matter is quickly settled.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />

Other ] have decided to stay in the village and the sheriffs have attempted to settle them in abandoned, sometimes ramshackle buildings. The sheriffs explain that while not inherently bad, these people do drink and congregate in increasingly crowded and squalid conditions. An elderly woman's complaints against one such new neighbour include being perpetually drunk, operating a tavern and brothel, and putting an anaconda in her firewood shed.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

]
The sheriffs check on Kolya and Vova, two petty criminals who are trying to turn their lives around, making sure that they are keeping out of trouble,<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018"/> that they can keep their phones charged, and helping with their probation documents. After cleaning garbage in a park, Kolya and Vova carry a log back to their home, so they'll have something to burn in cold weather.

Mayor Marunyak meets with Kolya who explains his ambitions to be respected and accepted, to have his own home, garden and family. He promises not to ] as he had in the past, believing it a preventative for tuberculosis. Marunyak later decides to transfer Kolya's deceased brother's house to him. Following the official transfer, Kolya begins tidying the overgrown yard of weeds and refuse while a neighbour loudly complains of an alcoholic wife-beating thief moving in.
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Moments of village life are shown throughout the film. Rudkovsky's young daughter is baptized. Kryvoborodko takes his son Nikita fishing on the nearby lake. A funeral is held for a destitute woman. Kolya makes ] over an open fire. The village men immerse themselves in the icy lake on the ]. In the spring, boys race across floating ice on a pond.
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A young man named Serhiy announces at a village council meeting his new group which seeks to form an independent community politically separated from Ukraine, issuing human passports and withholding taxes from the corrupt government. Serhiy espouses ] ideology and revisionist world history.{{efn|name=Russianworld|Serhiy promotes a revisionist history of an empire of 140 nationalities under Russia, from the Great Wall of China to the North Sea,<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" /> living prosperously. It is an amalgamation of the Norse ], ], and civilizations of ] as described by 17th-century Europeans whose vague and ignorant descriptions allowed these to be easily adapted in Russian ].}} Serhiy later addresses a gathering at the village club and is shouted down and ridiculed by the villagers, who stand behind the mayor.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" /> The mayor accuses him of trying to divide the villagers. He invites them to stand for election but leaves the meeting, tired of their antics.

Meanwhile, there are news reports of the ]. A man with a paratrooper tattoo mans a precarious ],{{efn|The watchtower is pictured on the film poster, see infobox.}} listening to distant military transmissions on a small transistor radio. The ] begins and Serhiy is shown flying a ] around the watchtower, his purpose unstated.

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The mood in the village changes with the seriousness of the war. The Sheriffs become less popular as they have to deliver registration notices for the ],<ref name="ARD" /><ref name="Warszawa2016" /> which is met with some resistance.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" /> Rudkovsky is concerned that he might be on the draft list despite a shoulder injury. While many say that they will fight if the enemy comes from Crimea, most don't want to be sent to fight in Donbas and one man plans to emigrate to Germany. There is excitement when a military convoy passes through the village; Kryvoborodko has his young son Nikita pose for pictures in fatigues with an assault rifle.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" /> When the sheriffs deliver a draft notice to Serhiy's home, they discover that he has fled the village. They find the recipient of another draft notice dead in his home from apparent violence, and call the militsiya to begin a criminal investigation.

Kryvoborodko turns Kolya in to the police for stealing a bicycle and selling it to a junkyard, and Kolya receives a {{frac|3|1|2}} year prison sentence.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018"/> The sheriffs both have misgivings, Rudkovsky thinking they could have handled it themselves and Kryvoborodko acknowledging that prison never made anyone a better person. They're uncertain what should be done with Kolya's wife Tanya, who can only do simple tasks and may not be able to support herself. She reads a letter from Kolya and speaks to his better qualities.

After much preparation, the village holds its 9th of May victory celebrations.{{efn|The Soviet republics commemorated Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May as ]. In 2015, Ukraine changed its observance to ], which was later moved to 8 May as ] with 9 May observed as ] alongside the European Union.}} The mayor speaks of the new war with the new enemy, and the need for those drafted to serve in the military,<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" /> as a half-dozen villagers have already done. Vova is seen wearing fatigues, suggesting that he has achieved an official position in public service.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

== Featured cast ==

* Viktor Vasylyovych Marunyak is the chairman of the Staraya Zburivka village council, referred to in some sources as its mayor.<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> He is a former history teacher.<ref name = "Trimbach2016" /> Years after the filming, on 21&nbsp;March 2022 during the ], he was taken prisoner by Russian special forces (]),{{efn|Marunyak was an outspoken advocate for peace and democracy, held pro-Ukrainian rallies and hid activists in his home. He was one of more than fifty local leaders who were detained by the Russian military in an attempt to subdue the occupied territories in 2022.<ref name="Mayors2022" /><ref name="Ramachandran2022" />}} who destroyed his house and refused to bring his medication for a chronic illness. After 23 days of captivity, Marunyak was released with pneumonia and nine broken ribs, which he told the ] were due to water torture and beatings. Marunyak was hospitalized for ten days before escaping to Ukrainian-controlled territory.<ref name="Mayors2022" /><ref name="Ramachandran2022" />
* Viktor Grygorovych Kryvoborodko is a village sheriff and pensioner. He aspired to a military career in the Soviet era<ref name = "ARD" /> then became a militsya officer<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> until he retired to his home village due to health issues.<ref name = "ARD" /> The filmmakers state that he is 50 years old, though it is unclear when he is this age in the film's multi-year narrative. Shortly after the end of filming, he was elected a deputy of the village council.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />
* Volodymyr Rudkovsky is a village sheriff and former member of the militsya who was primarily occupied with guard duties. He later worked as a nightclub bouncer. Following the birth of his daughter, he settled into a family life in the village<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> and raises pigs on a small plot of land.<ref name = "ARD" /> The filmmakers state that he is 44 years old, though it is unclear when he is this age in the film's multi-year narrative. Shortly after the end of filming, he was elected a deputy of the village council.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />
* Mykola "Kolya" Yanovskyy is an unemployed<ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /><ref name = "Halligan2015" /> habitual petty criminal who performs ] in the village. He is unpopular due to his habits of ]<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> and ] but aspires to be accepted and respected.<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> In the film, he states that all of his cousins have been in prison and that his brother was sent to prison for the murder of their father.
* Serhiy Lazarevych is a pro-Russian separatist whose vocal advocacy threatens to divide the village.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" /><ref name = "Halligan2015" /> He calls for the villagers to create a "community of people" independent of any government and espouses ] ideology.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" />{{efn|name=Russianworld}}

== Themes ==
Sociologist Christina Jarymowycz found the film to have themes similar to that of the ]: distrust toward state institutions and a desire to take matters into one's own hands. Kryvoborodko and Rudkovsky contrast with cold and often corrupt bureaucrats. They act as a buffer, trying to resolve issues before involving the militsiya, and become an effective alternative to state structures that offer little empathy or reliability.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

The film repeatedly returns to Kolya, described by film critic Neil Young as a "hapless, chaotic chap who seems to have wandered in from a previous century".<ref name = "Young2015" /> Introduced as a vagrant and a drunken wife-beater, his character is gradually revealed in what Author Anna Yakutenko described as a character transformation "from a villain into a victim of unfortunate circumstances."<ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /> Although Kolya is shown to apply himself and use his own strengths to better his living conditions, he is ultimately imprisoned. However, at the Victory Day celebration, Kolya's community service partner Vova is seen wearing fatigues, which Jarymowycz believes is an indication that he, at least, has redeemed himself in the community.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

Another theme is the effect of the conflict on everyday life. As the villagers prepare for ], their memories of past wars become recontextualized in the building conflict.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

== Production ==

''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' was produced by Daryna Averchenko for DocuDays South (Ukraine) and co-produced by Uldis Cekulis for VFS Films (Latvia), Irena Taskovski for Taskovski Films (Germany), and Tania Georgieva for German television. Six European TV channels were involved in the production<ref name = "Young2015" /> and the film also received support from the ] (IDFA) Bertha Fund (Eastern Europe).<ref name = "IDFA-kill" /> It was directed by filmmaker Roman Bondarchuk, who also served as cinematographer and co-editor.<ref name = "Young2015" /> According to Averchenko, who was also the film's screenwriter, the film is a story about how people organized themselves to deal with a societal need – policing – without waiting for higher authority to provide instructions.<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" /><ref name = "Young2015" />

Most of the film was shot from summer 2013 to summer 2014, which covered the period of the Euromaidan Revolution, the annexation of Crimea, and the beginning of the War in Donbas.<ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /> Bondarchuk stated that the villagers initially avoided the cameras but later competed for the film crew's attention.<ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /> From the extended shoots, nearly 200 hours of footage covered the sheriffs' investigations, duties, and daily lives. This was initially edited into small episodes with a first cut that was five hours in length and remained over two hours in length until its sixth cut.<ref name="IDFA-kill" /> A preliminary version of the film was workshopped and developed with the guidance of expert documentary creators at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2014.<ref name = "DFF" /> With additional funding, the crew returned to the village in May 2015 to record reactions to Kolya's arrest and imprisonment and the 70th anniversary Victory Day celebration, which concludes the film. A rough cut of the film was then developed through the dok.incubator program in 2015.<ref name = "Incubator2015" /><ref name = "Incubator2021" />

A final cut of 88 minutes was assembled by Bondarchuk and co-editor Kateryna Gornostai, with sound by Borys Peter and original music by Anton Baibakov.<ref name = "Young2015"/> A 52-minute edit was made for television.<ref name = "Halligan2015" /> Dialogue is in Russian and Ukrainian.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

== Release ==

The film premiered at the ] (IDFA), and was shown in special programs and in competition at more than three dozen other international film festivals.<ref name="UBWPorochenko" /> Its domestic premiere was at the ] International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival on 26&nbsp;March 2016<ref name = "Oliynyk2015" /><ref name = "YakutenkoReview" /> when it was screened in seven Ukrainian cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Mariupol, Odessa and Kherson.<ref name="UBWPorochenko" /><ref name = "Pravda-2" /> Its Asian premiere was at the ] (South Korea) in September&nbsp;2016.<ref name = "DMZ" />

''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' received distribution support from the IDFA Bertha Fund, and was released throughout Ukraine in July 2016, then to the Baltic and Balkan regions in September.<ref name=Božanic /> The film's television premiere took place on 1 April 2016 on the Franco-German channel ].<ref name="ARD" /><ref name = "YakutenkoReview" />

== Reception ==

Ukrainian film critic {{ interlanguage link | Sergey Trimbach|uk| Тримбач Сергій Васильович}}, writing for ], praised ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' and described Marunyak, Kryvoborodko, and Rudkovsky as role models for Ukraine. He compared the latter two to ] with their weathered masculine looks, confident strength and sense of humour. He concluded that the film is about taking initiative to better one's life rather than waiting on the outcome of disputes between greater powers<ref name = "Trimbach2016" /> Anna Yakutenko wrote for '']'' that the film portrays rural lives "in a semi-comic way sincere and heartwarming" but felt that it did not go far enough into examining attitudes toward the war and that the ending was too abrupt.<ref name= "YakutenkoReview" /> Neil Young, in '']'', described ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' as "an episodic, wryly amusing affair, displaying considerable interest in and sympathy with human foibles."<ref name="Young2015" /> Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic at '']'', also praised the film and predicted that it would do well at international film festivals, but found that the subtitles left parts of the story unclear.<ref name="Halligan2015" />

Jarymowycz wrote that the film "artfully evokes both difficult truths and moments of hope in everyday lives of Ukrainians" but felt that its narrative simplified and idealized the village rather than challenging the audience with its rougher complexities.<ref name = "Jarymowycz2018" />

=== Accolades ===

The film won the ]'s (IDFA's) 2015 Special Jury Award.<ref name="UAT-IDFA" /> It also won the Mayor of Gdynia Award at the ] in Poland.<ref name = "Gdynia" /> The ] (NSU) named ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' the Best Ukrainian Non-Fiction Film of 2016 at the {{ interlanguage link | 2017 NSU awards|uk| Премія НСКУ 2017 | lt=2017 NSU awards ceremony}}.<ref name="NSU" />

The NSU put ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' on a shortlist of submissions for the ] category of the American ], along with '']'' and ''Song of Songs''.<ref name="Pravda-1" /><ref name="Pravda-2" /> ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' was later chosen as Ukraine's official submission for the category.<ref name="hwr1" /><ref name="UAToscar" />

In 2021, Ukraine's ] compiled a list of the {{ interlanguage link | best 100 films in Ukrainian cinema|uk| Список_100_найкращих_фільмів_в_історії_українського_кіно }} through a survey of Ukrainian film critics, film experts and festival curators. ''Ukrainian Sheriffs'' ranked at position 56 on the list.<ref name = "BBC-100" /><ref name = "Dovzhenko-100" />

== See also ==


==See also==
* ] * ]
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== Footnotes == ==References==
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=== References ===

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| first2 = Gary
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| title = 'Shock Therapy' in Ukraine: A Radical Approach to Post-Soviet Police Reform
| journal = ]
| date = May 2016
| volume = 36
| issue = 2
| issn = 02712075
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| first = Eugenia
| title = "Українські шерифи": фільм про сільських волонтерів, які "замінили" міліцію
| trans-title = "Ukrainian Sheriffs": a film about village volunteers who "replaced" the police
| url = https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/27421665.html
| work = ]
| language = uk
| date = 11 December 2015
| access-date = 7 May 2016
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160507235302/http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/27421665.html
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2015 film

Ukrainian Sheriffs
Directed byRoman Bondarchuk [uk]
Written byRoman Bondarchuk
Produced byDaryna Averchenko [uk]
Uldis Sekulis
Edited byRoman Bondarchuk
Katerina Gornostay [uk]
Boris Peter
Music byAnton Baibakov [uk]
Release date
  • 20 November 2015 (2015-11-20) (IDFA)
Running time88 minutes
CountriesUkraine
Latvia
Germany
LanguagesUkrainian
Russian

Ukrainian Sheriffs (Template:Lang-uk) is a 2015 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk [uk]. It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.

Synopsis

Due to a lack of police presence in the Ukrainian village of Stara Zburyivka [uk], mayor Viktor Marunyak assigns the task of protecting the peace to two locals, Viktor Kryvoborodko, aged 50, and Volodymyr Rudkovsky, aged 44. Kryvoborodko and Rudkovsky's work combines the functions of police officers and social workers, as they are tasked with mediating disputes, but not with investigating criminal offenses. The beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014- ) changes their routine, however - village politics become divided, and the sheriffs are tasked with supporting the Ukrainian war-effort.

Production

Ukrainian Sheriffs was filmed over four years, for a total of nearly 200 hours of footage. The first cut of the film was five hours in length and remained over two hours in length until its sixth cut.

Distribution

Ukrainian Sheriffs began distribution throughout Europe in February 2016. The film's premiere on German television took place on 4 April 2016 on the Franco-German channel Arte. Distribution of the film in Ukraine began in July 2016 and then in the Baltics and Balkans in September.

Reception

Ukrainian film critic Sergey Trimbach [uk], writing for The Day, praised Ukrainian Sheriffs and described Marunyak, Kryvoborodko, and Rudkovsky as role models for Ukraine, and compared the latter two to American police officers. Neil Young, in The Hollywood Reporter, described Ukrainian Sheriffs as "an episodic, wryly amusing affair, displaying considerable interest in and sympathy with human foibles." Fionnuala Halligan, chief film critic at Screen Daily, also praised the film and predicted that it would do well at international film festivals.

Accolades

The Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers (NSU) named Ukrainian Sheriffs the Best Ukrainian Non-Fiction Film of 2016 at the 2017 NSU awards ceremony [uk]. It then added Ukrainian Sheriffs to a shortlist of submissions for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 89th Academy Awards with The Nest of the Turtledove and Song of Songs. Ukrainian Sheriffs was eventually chosen as Ukraine's submission for the category.

The film won the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam's 2015 Special Jury Award. It also won the Grand Prix at the Docs Against Gravity Festival in Poland, and appeared at a dozen other international film festivals.

See also

References

  1. Oliynyk, Eugenia (11 December 2015). ""Українські шерифи": фільм про сільських волонтерів, які "замінили" міліцію" ["Ukrainian Sheriffs": a film about village volunteers who "replaced" the police]. Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. "Kill Your Darlings: Ukrainian Sheriffs". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  3. ^ Broeren-Huitenga, Joost (2 October 2017). "Bringing it Home: Sara Božanic about the innovative distribution of Ukrainian Sheriffs". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. "Ukrainische Sheriffs" (in German). ARD. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  5. Trimbach, Sergey (23 September 2016). "Кіноновації та кіно надії" [Cinematic innovation and hopeful cinematography]. The Day (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  6. Young, Neil (7 December 2015). "'Ukrainian Sheriffs': IDFA Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  7. Halligan, Fionnuala (30 November 2015). "'Ukrainian Sheriffs': Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  8. "Оголошено переможців Премії НСКУ найкращим вітчизняним фільмам 2016 року" [The winners of the NSU Award for the best domestic films of 2016] (in Ukrainian). Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers. 31 May 2017. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  9. "Обрано три фільми-кандидати на "Оскар" від України". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 31 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  10. "На "Оскар" від України номінували фільм "Українські шерифи"" ["Ukrainian Sheriffs" nominated by Ukraine for the Oscars]. Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Oscars: Ukraine Selects 'Ukrainian Sheriffs' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  12. "Ukraine selects its candidate for foreign-language Oscar". Ukraine Today. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  13. "Ukrainian film awarded with Special Jury Prize at IDFA documentary festival". Ukraine Today. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2021.

External links


Ukrainian submissions for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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