| Director: | Zhanna Ozirna |
|---|---|
| Production: | Toy Cinema (Dmytro Sukhanov) |
| Running Time: | 84’ |
| Language: | Ukrainian |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Main Cast: | Ira Nirsha, Roman Lutskyi |
| Screenplay: | Zhanna Ozirna |
| Cinematographer: | Volodymyr Usyk |
| Editor: | Zhanna Ozirna, Philip Sotnychenko |
| Production Designer: | Marharyta Kulyk |
| Costume Designer: | Asya Sutyagina |
| Music: | Anton Dehtiarov |
| Sound: | Serhiy Stepansky |
Cinema
Medovyi misiats (Honeymoon)
Biennale College Cinema
Synopsis
23 February 2022, a small town next to Kyiv. Taras and Olya spend their first night in their own apartment in a new residential complex. At dawn, they wake up from the massive explosions. They fail to leave the town on time; meanwhile, the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their house, right in their inner yard. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water and mobile connection. They even don’t know if Ukraine still exists. For the next five days, Taras and Olya will explore the black abyss of real intimacy between two people and will face crucial existential questions under mortal danger. Their main goal now is to keep in secret their presence, to plan the way to escape and to believe that the future is possible.
Director’s Statement
I heard this story from a friend of mine. And then from another friend. And then I read a similar story in the news. Thus I went to all these people and recorded their fresh memories about the events. I wanted to understand how my neighbors and my friends lived through the experience of occupation but also to adjust the story to my own personal feeling of the war—what challenges my generation faces right now, what choices we are forced to make, and how we rethink the usual value system. It was important to us to film in Ukraine as well, we considered it as a moral and ethical choice, because the war is still going on, the memory of the events is still fresh, and many Ukrainians are still living under occupation. But it was also a very practical choice, because a big number of Ukrainian film professionals lost their jobs due to the war or were mobilized into the army. It was our small contribution to the sustainability of the industry.
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION: Dmytro Sukhanov - Toy Cinema
Sichovykh Striltsiv Street 84°
04050, Kyiv, Ukraine
Tel. 48 882690468
sukhanov@toycinema.com.ua
PRESS OFFICE: La Biennale di Venezia
Ca’ Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A
30124, Venice, Italy
Tel. 39 0412726608
presscinema@labiennale.org
college-cinema@labiennale.org
info@mimmomorabito.it (+39 335 52 92 055)
WORLD SALES: REASON8 Films – Anna Krupnova
+44 (0) 791 4621232
ak@reason8films.com
