6th EASTERN UKRAINIAN FILM FESTIVAL
01 — 06 OCTOBER 2022
This is a film about life, about tradition, about the conflict of two worlds – modern and ancient, about the nature of mountains, about human destiny, about love, about family, about a place under the sun, about living fire and about sheep farming – all this is in the head of a little boy, who may become a shepherd – Ivanka. Three men of different generations live in the Ukrainian Carpathians: 82-year-old Ivan spends his old age alone, he recently buried his wife and is preparing for the funeral himself. At the same time, 10-year-old Ivanko is starting life with a clean slate at a boarding school in the district center, and 39-year-old Vasyl manages a livestock farm and raises young sheep. But spring will come, and all three will climb the mountains following the shepherding vocation, which is increasingly difficult to continue in today’s world.
Awards and nominations
Victory
2015 – Special Jury Award of the Canadian International Documentary Film Festival Hot Docs [en] (Toronto, Canada)
2015 – Best Documentary Award of the film of the 18th International Film Festival for Children and Youth Olympia (Greece)
2016 — Award for cinematography at Salem Film Fest (USA)
Nominations and diplomas
2015 — Special diploma of the jury of the Odessa International Film Festival (Odesa, Ukraine)
2015 — Diploma of the International Film Festival “Listapad” (Minsk, Belarus)
2015 — Selected for participation in the competition program of the international Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Karlów Vary, Czech Republic)
2015 — Selected for participation in the competition program of the Chicago International Film Festival in the Gold Hugo nomination (best international documentary ) (Chicago, USA)
2015 — Selected for participation in the competitive program of the “Reykjavik International festival” (Reykjavik, Iceland)
2015 — Selected for participation in the competition program of the “Zurich International Film Festival” in the nomination “Golden Eye” (the best international documentary film) (Zurich, Switzerland)2016 — Selected for participation in the competition program of the “Pelicam International film festival” (Tulca, Romania)
Born in 1979 in Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Region. Graduated from the Faculty of History of the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko, as well as the acting studio of the Lviv Academic Theater named after Lesya Kurbas.
As an actor, he worked at the Theater named after Lesya Kurbas. He is a co-author of such musical projects as “Banda Arkan”, “Tatosh Banda”, “Gych Orchestra”.
Ostap Kostyuk’s film debut took place in 2011. In co-authorship with Oleksandr Pozdnyakov, he shot the short film “Manu and Cabbage”.
In 2015, the documentary “Living Fire” was presented. The film won the only special jury award at the Canadian Hot Docs festival in the category “world feature documentary”
| Producer | Danyl Vulytskyi, Gennadiy Kofman, Olga Beshmelnytsina |
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| Operator | Oleksandr Pozdnyakov, Nikita Kuzmenko |
