Experiencing Interruptions?

Shadows


Pasha goes to the mountains to photograph the canyon and decides to spend the night in an abandoned house. He expects to meet someone there, but this meeting will change him

  • Oleksandra Vinnichuk
    Director
  • Dmytro Karlash
    Writer
  • Yulian Mora
    Key Cast
  • Yan Bidnyy
    Key Cast
  • Dmytro Dem'yanetsʹ
    DOP
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 53 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 3, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    130 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Ukrainian Film School
  • Orlando International Film Festival
    Orlando
    July 13, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Interrobang Film Festival
    Des Moines
    United States
    June 23, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival
    Canton
    May 6, 2023
    North American Premiere
    Winner || BEST UKRAINE SHORT FILM
  • Steve Aronson International Film Festival

    Official Selection
  • Drama International Short Film Festival
    Drama
    Greece
    September 4, 2023
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Oleksandra Vinnichuk

Oleksandra Vinnichuk
Education.
2016-2020 - Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Specialties Audiovisual art and production
2020 - 2022 Ukrainian Film School
Specialty: Film Director.
Filmography
2020 - Documentary film "Golden Threads" 2020.
2020 - Documentary film "This is Rozdol: History and Modernity"
2020 - Short film "Move after the mat"
2022 - Short film "A Day Without Him"
2022 - Short film "Shadows"
2022 - Pilot episode of the web series "Roles"
2023 - Short film "Camera" (in post-production)
2023 - Short film "Time" (in post-production)
2023 - Documentary "Natalie" (working title) (in post-production)

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Director Statement

When I was a director of a social project, we asked Ukrainians if they could call their mom or dad and say "I love you." We got different reactions from people and their parents. There were also cases when people refused to call.
When I was looking for an idea for the movie, I remembered our experiment.
I wanted to make a movie about the topic of parents and children. But I didn't want to show the "parents" side. I wanted it to be a conversation about parents between a child and an adult child. In the first version of the script, Lesha was a funny little kid who shows Pasha that he should be the first to contact his parents. In this version, Pasha becomes a "lawyer" for Lyosha's father. Justifying Lyosha's father, Pasha changes and looks at his relationship with his father differently.