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Lapalissade
Category: Ukrainian Features Preview
Directed by: Philip Sotnychenko
Produced by: Halyna Kryvorchuk (Viatel), Valeria Sotnychenko, Sashko Chubko (Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema)
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: La Palisiada
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian, Russian
Runtime: 110
Completed in: 2022
Synopsis:
Two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist investigate a murder of a colleague whose widow they both loved when they were young. Immersed in memories of the past, they unconsciously create a future for their children where they reap the fruits of their parents’ lost hopes.
Lucky Girl
Category: Ukrainian Features Preview
Directed by: Marysia Nikitiuk
Produced by: Yanina Sokolova + Julia Sinkevych (Yanina Sokolova Production)
Country of production: Ukraine, Germany
Original title: Ya, Nina
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 100
Completed in: 2022
Synopsis:
Nina is a young and successful TV star. She has everything in her life, until her life suddenly changes after she is diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Going from the highest peak to the darkest places she faces personal crisis, confronts fears, stereotypes, betrayal in order to reinvent herself.
ROCK. PAPER. GRENAGE
Category: Ukrainian Features Preview
Directed by: Iryna Tsilyk
Produced by: Vladimir Yatsenko, Anna Yatsenko (ForeFilms)
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Я і Фелікс
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90
Completed in: 2022
Synopsis:
A coming-of-age story, based on Artem Chekh “Who are you?” autobiographical novel about relationships between a teenager and broken adults in Ukraine, 1990s. One day Tymophiy befriends a Felix – an Afghanistan war veteran, who has has PTSD and he loves classical music…
When We Were 15 (us, 15)
Category: Ukrainian Features Preview
Directed by: Anna Buryachkova
Produced by: Natalia Libet, Vitalii Sheremetiev (Digital Religion (DGTL RLGN) LLC)
Country of production: Ukraine
Original title: Koly nam bulo 15
Genre: Feature film
Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 90
Completed in: 2023
Synopsis:
15-year old Tonya is the new girl at school. She is facing questions of her ex-boyfriend abuse, dealing with her sexuality and accepting loneliness while trying to find her place in the adult world.