The Adventures of Tomas the Baboon: Evolution or Death

100 minutes - Ukraine

Status Under development

Format Film

Category Full-length

Genre Drama

Production company Alybatros Komunіkos

Distributor Alybatros Komunіkos

Directors Hanka Tretyak

Director of photography (DOP) Viacheslav Tsvy

Producer Anna Kapustina

Country Ukraine

Language Ukrainian

What do we know about ourselves? Who are we, where are we from and where are we going? Every Ukrainian lives in his social, ideological and psychological "bubble", avoiding contact with other residents of the same bubbles, the way out of which is very traumatic. But from the light paw of Thomas' baboon, the viewer will have to drink a whole glass of bubble drink in one gulp. This story is the key to self-knowledge. Going through the classic Buddhist series of rebirths, Thomas Yakovlevich finds himself in the shoes of various Ukrainians living in the world: emigrants, peasants, intellectuals, sexists, fighters for justice, politicians and businessmen, looks inside them.Humor is a critical tool of cognition, because the inherent "pride" and pathos do not allow to objectively assess the issue. In our comedy, Ukraine appears as a great and powerful phenomenon on the world cultural landscape. The search for the protagonist takes place through a series of reincarnations  not only in different cultural and social roles and personalities, but also in different countries and cultures.  France, the United States, the Czech Republic and Ukraine - wherever our hero falls in his mad reincarnations! Thereby raising global issues in satirical form and making them understandable to different people around the world. The path to self-awareness is difficult and full of humor and self-irony - because it is the only way to understand ourselves and the cultural codes that we inherit from birth, or maybe we just forgot who we really are?

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