Producer
The film centers on Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy, who is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine, and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference toward human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.
Producer
Este de Ucrania, en un futuro cercano. Sergey, un ex soldado que sufre síndrome postraumático, tiene problemas para adaptarse a su nueva realidad: una vida hecha añicos, una tierra en ruinas. Cuando la fundición en la que trabaja finalmente cierra sus puertas, encuentra una inesperada forma de superar su tristeza al unirse a la tarea de los "Tulipanes Negros", un grupo dedicado a exhumar los cadáveres que la guerra con Rusia ha dejado tras de sí. Trabajando al lado de Katya, empieza a comprender que un futuro mejor es posible.
Producer
Maria, aged 82, and her sick son Sashko live out their days in a remote province. Sashko went blind because of serious illness. He’s afraid that his mother is dying, but Maria desperately clings to life as she realizes that no one will take care of her son. They may seem to be acting irrationally, but they are heroically unwilling to surrender. Maria buys a calf, Sashko starts to build a tractor, groping his way in the darkness…
Screenplay
Christmas Lviv. Cellist Orest is entangled in a chain of personal, domestic and work problems. And at some point it reaches the boiling point.
