DocNoteFilms in partnership with Dronarium Ukraine, Bedlam Productions and 4 Ears Sound Production.
“Poliske. The Other Chornobyl” is a short, dark and highly stylized documentary/art film that tells the story of human incompetence and lies which led to devastation of second largest town in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Poliske.
The film tells about the fate of the abandoned city of Poliske. Poliske was the second largest city in the Chornobyl region after Pripyat, but its inhabitants were not displaced for 13 years after the disaster. The authorities created conditions for people to remain, and even built new homes in the city for those displaced from Pripyat. All this time, the residents were not informed of the 10x excess of the radiation background. Resettlement only ended in 1999.
Oleh Nedava, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy, Nature Management and Elimination of the Consequences of the Chornobyl Disaster, Axon Partners, State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety, KyivKinoFilm, RECRENTAL, Shcherbati Tsugli, State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, 11 State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv Region and personally K.M. Stukalenko.
