The Moment

Love story in the paradigm of war in Eastern Ukraine. Young people accidentally meet each other in a robbed by prowlers old house. They are in the combat zone and they have to run quickly to the contact line. They have to cross this temporary boarder and reach peaceful life. And that night on their way to the contact line will change them a lot. The short film was inspired by Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s short story “Moment”.

The girl escaped from captivity, the young man came to the old house to pick some things for its owner. In the beginning, both characters are rooted into war reality but their story takes them further and further from it. This short film is an ode to spring feelings, nature, genuineness, sincerity and genuine kindness which break through debris of a damaged by war young soul. The soul which is absolutely ready to die with words of love for life on its lips.