Phase
20’ Nickolay Zaseev Ukraine 2021
A 10-year-old boy Yarik, while playing in the woods next to his family's house, sees a young man allegedly killing a girl. After his failed attempts to talk to his mother about that, he looks for evidence of the possible crime himself.
Leopolis Night
27’ Nikon Romanchenko Ukraine 2021
Polia, Solomiіa, Mariіa play in the local theater. After the spectacle, they meet a guy and walk through the night city together. Polia seems to fall in love with him. In the morning he will leave the city and they will not see each other again.
Dad’s sneakers
20’ Olha Zhurba Ukraine 2021
An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha's life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest - an American family finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever but there's something that doesn't let him go.
The Diaper Cake
17’ Anastasia Babenko Ukraine 2021
Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.
Good Boy
15’ Mariia Ponomarova Netherlands/Ukraine 2021
A successful data analyst takes care of his sick father in addition to his busy job. If he has to travel to Amsterdam for work, the pressure becomes too great. A special encounter with a stranger ensures that Andriy finally lets go.