In Ukraine’s post-war future, Roman, a struggling film director, dreams of making movies once again. He is residing in Kyiv with his 18-year-old son, while his beloved wife and young daughter remain in Vienna, the city they fled to at the beginning of Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion.

Much to Roman’s mounting chagrin and despite a newly elected populist government – and the fact that he’s unwilling to leave the country he fought for – his family doesn’t plan on returning to their homeland due to the poor economic and political landscapes. These, regardless of liberation and ongoing pushes from citizens, are slow to reform. As he prepares a new film with his trusted producer Volodymyr Yatsenko (the real film’s producer), his close friend Vlad may be a melancholy mirror into his own future: he has already lost his family to the allure of the West. Meanwhile, his ailing father, possessing a demeanour sourced from all that he has survived, provides a different outlook on life.

Product: Fragrant Mania Festival
Client: Kraft
Production / Director: Gennady Garonsky
Producer: Leonid Nikishov

Televersion.

Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's eponymous story.

The story of a failure who could admit it, and of another who failed.

Kramatorsk is a city of large factories, dirty air and broken roads. All that I do not like in my native Donetsk and what I miss now.

The film is part of an almanac of short films Local.