Infinity According to Florian

UA 2022, 70 min, Oleksiy Radynski

On the eve of his 90th birthday, Kyiv-based architect Florian Yuriev gets some bad news. The city has rented out his architectural opus magnum – Flying-Saucer-shaped avant-garde concert hall – to a real estate developer who wants to turn it into a shopping mall. (He also happens to be one of Donald Trump's Ukrainian cronies). Florian decides to quit his self-imposed seclusion and try to disrupt this phony real estate deal. He is aided by a group of young architects and followers. As a result of the media outcry, the infamous new owner of the Flying Saucer building gives a promise to renovate the place according to Florian's own design. This promise turns out to be worth nothing, but Florian is not ready to give up. He uses his visionary skills to snatch an unlikely victory.

festivals

IFF Rotterdam 2022, NL | Master of Art 2022, BG | Docaviv 2022, IL | Docs Against Gravity 2022, PL | Docudays at Krakow FF 2022, UA/PL | Kino Otok FF, SI | Sheffield Doc/Fest 2022, UK | Pärnu International Documentary & Anthropology Film Festival 2022, EE | Docu.Text Festival 2022, IL | Riga IFF 2022, LV | Vilnius DFF 2022, LT | Tirana IFF 2022, AL | Nepatogus Kinas 2022, LT | DOK Leipzig 2022, DE | Ukrainian FF Berlin 2022, DE | Verzió IHRDFF 2022, HU | this human world 2022, AT | Festival International du Film sur l'Art 2023, CA | Espoo Ciné FF 2023, FI | Seoul International Architecture FF 2023, KR | Festival Film a Architektura 2023, CZ

awards

Best Ukrainian Film (Docs Against Gravity 2022) | Best Art Film (Parnu Film Festival 2022)

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