Completed - RUSSIAN, UKRANIAN - Documentary - 75 minutes
In a dark, dank basement lies the forgotten youth of modern Ukraine. Homeless and dejected, this troubled group struggles to navigate their way through friendship, love and loss in a drug-fuelled haze.
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Juri RECHINSKY Writer(s) : Juri RECHINSKY
This is a documentary triptych about a group of homeless young people who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grown up and begun to live an adult life. It is a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village, full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It is a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to a baby whose childhood will probably be even worse than hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to have an abortion.
Country(ies) : AUSTRIA
HotDocs 2013 (International Spectrum)Sarajevo FF 2013 (Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film)Aye Aye Film Festival 2013Raindance Film Festival 2013 (Best Documentary Feature)Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival 2013 (Special Screening)Viennale 2013 (Vienna Film Award for Best Documentary and Erste Bank MoreVALUE Award)DocsDF International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Best International Documentary)DOK Leipzig 2013 (Young Cinema Competition)