Private Project

Teacher’s Day

A distinguished teacher and two young women get stuck in the elevator. Turns out that these women are victims of a pedophile. After many years they lured him into a trap. They force him to confess on camera. After he has a heart attack, they face a dilemma - to save him or to let him die.

  • Oleksii Pasichnyk
    Director
  • Oleksii Pasichnyk
    Writer
  • Anastasiia Lezhnova
    Writer
  • Oleksii Pasichnyk
    Producer
  • Ivan Krutous
    Producer
  • Konstantin Danilyuk
    Key Cast
  • Darya Krivoshey
    Key Cast
  • Kateryna Shenfeld
    Key Cast
  • Anastasiia Lezhnova
    Key Cast
  • Denys Lushchyk
    DoP
  • Denys Podlyanskiy
    Sound director
  • Viktor Buchkovskiy
    Set designer
  • Maxim Levchenko
    Editor
  • Yegor Pysarenko
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Thiller
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 21 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • CLIT - Cinema in Unusual and Temporary Venues
    Setúbal
    Portugal
    May 14, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Fickin' International Film Festival Kinshasa
    Kinshasa
    Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
    July 5, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Symbiotic Film Festival
    Kyiv
    Ukraine
    February 24, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Festival del Cinema di Cefalù
    Cefalù
    Italy
    August 15, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Chitrangan International Film & Theatre Festival
    Rewa
    India
    February 21, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Tournadeau Music and Film Festival
    Putnam, CT
    United States
    August 27, 2022
    Official Selection
  • The Paus Premieres Festival
    Manchester
    United Kingdom
    December 14, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Afraid. Online film award
    Kyiv
    Ukraine
    May 1, 2022
    Best Screenplay Award
  • Thessaloniki Free Short Festival
    Thessaloniki
    Greece
    September 10, 2022
    Best Horror Short Film Award
  • Bobritsa Film Festival
    Bobritsa
    Ukraine
    July 15, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Tetova International Film Festival ODA
    Tetova
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    August 26, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Oleksii Pasichnyk

More than 20 years Oleksii Pasichnyk has been working as a creative director and as an advertising and tv-promo director. He has over 140 awards of advertising and television festivals. Short film “Teacher’s day” is his debut as a feature film director.

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Director Statement

«Teacher’s Day» is my exploration of the limits of humanism. I want to put the viewers in the position where they have to choose between mercy and revenge. Should you treat your abuser as a human being, no matter what? Also, with this film I want to actualize the problem of child abuse in orphanages.