Атлантида
Directed by:
Valentin VasyanovichScreenplay:
Valentin VasyanovichCinematography:
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East Ukraine in the near future: the country has become an inhospitable desert, where settlement is no longer possible. The former soldier Sergei, who suffers from PTSD, is finding it very hard to assimilate in the new reality of his home country in ruins. One day he decides to join a group of volunteers digging the bodies of fallen soldiers out of the rubble. Here, he gets to know Katya and a better future suddenly seems possible. (Filmfest Hamburg)
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Blade Water Runner Ukraine. A brilliantly shot, slow and unfortunately overstretched dystopia about a cold country, where Vasyanovych has to use a thermal camera to get a warm shot. Suggestive statement. [IFFR 2020]
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A painfully slow burn, but packed with an overwhelming number of creative ideas that you just can’t ignore. It felt like watching a modern-day Tarkovsky. And that thermographic camera? What a stroke of genius. Definitely not for your average viewer, but it's the kind of film that lingers in your mind long after the credits roll. Hard to believe this came out of Ukraine, but wow—hats off. The country’s landscape feels tailor-made for dystopian stories.
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