National Competition (Shorts) 1

Story

WELL, YOU ARE A FOOL LISA

Lisa lives with her Mum, her phlegmatic sister and a stupid dog. She firmly believes that she can fall in love with Vadik and imagines their relationship in the style of the films from around the year 2000. 

 

UKR 2021, 21 min., directed and written by Oleksandra Konoplia

 

DIMA, DMITRY, DMYTRO. GLORY TO THE HEROES

With the help of archive material and semi-documentary narratives, the film undertakes a complex investigation of identity, culture and the power of archives in today’s Ukraine. 

 

UKR 2021, 23 min., directed and written by Clemens Poole

 

KITCHEN.BLEND 

The film is a commentary on the absurdity of digital tools, which are in a position to simulate spaces but can never replace what they represent. On the search for the real in the virtual world. 

 

UKR, F 2022, 15 min., directed by Nataliya Ilchuk written by Nataliya Ilchuk, Paul Guilbert

 

LEOPOLIS NIGHT

Polia, Solomiіa and Mariіa are doing a production in the local theatre. After the performance, they meet a man and spend the night walking with him. Polia seems to fall in love with him. The next day, he leaves town and they will never see him again.

 

UKR 2021, 26 min., directed and written by Nikon Romanchenko

 

DAD’S SNEAKERS 

The final hours for 13-year old Sasha in a boarding school for orphans: he’s one of the lucky ones, he’s been adopted by an American family. Today he’s going to leave for another country – yet something holds him back. 

 

UKR 2021, 19 min., directed and written by Olha Zhurba