You can watch the official trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCBlLePiDA
UKRAINE GOODBYE
Short Films Omnibus
Ukraine, 2012, 115 min.
Ukraine Goodbye is an experimental laboratory, created to find ways of development of Ukrainian cinema. 25 films, with 6 hours total screening time, were made during the project. Theatrical release version includes 6 shorts, selected by producers. Over 500 people were involved into the project during two years of its realization, including directors and script writers, actors and producers, cameramen and sound engineers, actors, and many more. This fact makes Ukraine Goodbye an important professional community-building project for developing Ukrainian industry. Films from the Ukraine Goodbye project were presented at over two dozens festival all over the world, namely in Cannes, Locarno, New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bilbao, etc. Ukraine Goodbye is a socio-anthropological film research by young Ukrainian filmmakers in search of a hero of our time. Initiated as a project about emigration, the project eventually developed into a statement of new Ukrainian filmmakers generation about contemporary Ukraine and Ukrainians.
About the films:
Ania is an aspiring actress and a single mother with a little son. She has to take all types of jobs to bring up her child. One day a regular client calls to tell her, he is leaving for good...
Length: 12 min.
Genre: Comedy / drama
Director: Yevhen Matvienko
Script: Ivan Tymshyn, Yevhen Matvienko
Cast: Oksana Filonenko, Serhiy Malyuga, Yegor Golovkov
Production design: Mykhaylo Levchenko
Cinematography: Elena Markova, Aleksandr Dzhantimirov, Dmytro Pysanyy, Daniele Giometto, Artem Vasiliev, Yevhen Kosenko, Vlad Kramskyy, Ivan Tymchenko, Aleksandr Pronin, Olga Kuzkina
- Message To Men IFF Official Selection (St.Petersburg, Russia)
An old man’s daughter marries a foreigner and moves abroad. No one in his deserted village in Western Ukraine even remembers his real name; people just call him “the Beard”. “The Beard” leaves an ordinary life of a common man, feeding hens, smoking cheap cigarettes, going fishing and watching how the river flows. But nobody knows what’s on his mind…
Length: 25 min.
Genre: drama
Director: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Script: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
Cast: Zinoviy Symchych, Mykola Gomenyuk, Maria Romanova, Gilberto Forti
Production design: Olga Yurasova
Cinematography: Serhiy Krut'ko
- The Winner of All-Ukrainian Contest «Word Coronation» in the Best Film Script category
- Kinofest Digital Film Festival, Non-Competition Program (New-York, USA)
- Short Film Corner, Cannes IFF
- Kinolev IFF, Non-Competition Program (Lviv, Ukraine)
- Nominated for Best Student Film at Leiden Short Film Festival (the Netherlands)
- Best Script at Open Night Short Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Odessa IFF (Ukraine)
- 2in1 IFF, Non-Competition Program (Moscow, Russia)
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Molodist IFF (Kyiv, Ukraine)
In a small provincial Ukrainian town everyone knows each other and lives as one big family. Old
ladies, teenagers, police and local mafia... Everyone will get a bite of a pie.
Length: 16 min.
Genre: comedy
Director: Yuriy Kovalyov
Script: Hanna Hrabarska
Cast: Valeriy Astakhov, Lina Budnyk, Valeriy Gneushev, Nikita Sitdikov, Artem Miaus
Production design: Olesya Bondar
Cinematography: Ivan Tymchenko
Music: Nikita Moiseev
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Odessa IFF (Ukraine)
- Kinolev IFF, Non-Competition Program (Lviv, Ukraine)
- Message To Men IFF Official Selection (St.Petersburg, Russia)
Uncle Tolya’s wife hung herself, and his children went abroad. He lives on his own and feels very
lonely. In order to get rid of these feelings, Uncle Tolya starts talking to God. If only everybody would
die, especially sinners in violent torture, Uncle Tolya would gain peace. Since the Lord is not
answering the prayers of his servant, Uncle Tolya decides to play God’s role.
Length: 20 min.
Genre: drama
Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy
Script: Marysia Nikitiuk
Cast: Yaroslav Gavryliuk, Svitlana Serdiukova, Maria Novokhatska
Production design: Olga Zlobina
Cinematography: Ivan Tymchenko
Music: Ihor Melnychuk
- Short Film Corner, Cannes IFF
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Odessa IFF (Ukraine)
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Molodist IFF (Kyiv, Ukraine)
A country house, two kids, a fridge, bought on credit, plans to get a new gas boiler and travel to Crimea…
What would one do in order to fulfill those modest dreams?
Length: 20 min.
Genre: drama
Director: Yevgen Matvienko
Script: Anna Legka
Cast: Vyacheslav Pogudin, Georgiy Havrylenko, Taras Denysenko, Liliya Matvienko, Luka Matvienko, Serhiy Sorokin
Production design: Serhiy Brzhestovskyy
Cinematography: Mykhaylo Markov, Oleksandr Dzhantimirov, Dmytro Pysanyy
He is a truck-driver at a radioactive waste utilization plant in the Chornobyl zone. She works at a radioactive decontamination laundry. Their work and their life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm with clockwork precision. But what sets this mechanism in motion, day by day?
Length: 24 min.
Genre: drama
Director: Myroslav Slaposhpitskyy
Script: Myroslav Slaposhpitskyy
Cast: Serhiy Havryliuk, Svitlana Shtan'ko
Production design: Olena Slaboshpitska
Cinematography: Dmytro Sannikov
- Silver Leopard at Locarno IFF (Switzerland)
- Grand-Prix at Kinoshok IFF (Anapa, Russia)
- Message To Men IFF Official Selection (St.Petersburg, Russia)
- 2in1 IFF, Non-Competition Program (Moscow, Russia)
- Nominated for the Best Ukrainian Film at Molodist IFF (Ukraine)
- Ecofest IFF (Romania)
- FIFE (France)
- Bilbao IFF (Spain)
DIRECTORS' BIO (in alphabetical order)
Born in 1973. Started his directing career in 1995 on TV. By this time made number of TV projects, short films, music videos, and ads.
Born in 1976. Graduated from Music School (cello) and Visual Arts Studio. Worked as lighting technician and assistant cameraman. In 2000 graduated from the Film Department at Kyiv's I. Karpenko-Karyy Theatre, Film and TV University.
Born into the family of a famous Ukrainian writer and literary scholar Mykhaylo Slaboshpitskyy. Graduated from the Film and TV Directing Department at Kyiv's I. Karpenko-Karyy Theatre, Film and TV University. Worked as a criminal reporter, wrote scripts for film and TV. Lived in St.-Petersburg, where he worked as
scriptwriter and 1st assistant director. His debut short Incident (2006) took part in competition programs of 27 festivals in 17 countries and got prize in Algarve (Portugal). In 2009 and 2010, his shorts were selected to Berlinale competition (Diagnosis andDeafness). In 2012, Nuclear Waste won at Locarno IFF (Pardino d’Argento) and at Kinoshok IFF (Grand-Prix in the Limits of Shock selection).
Born in 1983. Graduated from the Architecture Department in Chernivtsi Polytechnic College. Studied Philosophy in the Chernivtsi University. In 2007, entered Kyiv's I. Karpenko-Karyy Theatre, Film and TV University. His short film Аdolescence won Grand-Prix and Best Director award at Open Night Short Film
Festival (2008, Ukraine).
Born in 1970. In 1993, started directing advertising videos. In 90s made few short movies. One of them, Mermaid, participated in more than 80 international festivals.Directed TV shows, films and TV series. In 2000 debuted with a feature Car washers,which participated in Karlovy Vary IFF.Initiated and produced short films anthologies Assholes. Arabesques and Ukraine Goodbye. Now working on the feature Green Jacket.
PRODUCERS NOTE ABOUT UKRAINE GOODBYE
Ukraine Goodbye is a socio-anthropological film research by young Ukrainian directors in search of a hero of their times.
Ukraine Goodbye is a next stage of development of the new Ukrainian film wave, acknowledged in the best world film festivals and called Ukrainian Angry.
Ukrainian Angry appeared during the economical recession in 2009, when some production studios, distributors, directors and scriptwriters united to create a zero-budget omnibus Assholes. Arabesques. The omnibus main hero was an asshole as a symbol of success and life style, and its main topic were nihilism and indifference, epidemically spread all over the country. In September of 2010 Assholes were released and became one of the most successful independent film projects in Ukraine. The cinema audience numbered over 20,000 people. Assholes caused wide discussions among cinephiles and common viewers.
Ukraine Goodbye began as a project about emigration, as an attempt to explore reasons, which make Ukrainians to leave their country. Eventually, the project developed into a large-scale film statement of new Ukrainian filmmakers generation about contemporary Ukraine and its people. Why do Ukrainians feel themselves as outsiders in their own country? How do young people reflect Ukrainian reality? What is happening with them here and now?
Ukrainian Angry, like Italian neo-realists or British kitchen sink realists, film what they know best, they film themselves.
You can read review of the film here: http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/node/523
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