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When the sun will wake up

Two brothers Sanya (12 years old) and Valera (6 years old) live on the front line between Ukraine and Russia. With their friend Kos they shooting beer cans from real gun, steal things in a broken school. Incidentally, the boys find a hidden weapon of the separatists at school. At this moment, the separatists catch the brothers and take them to their position place. The leader of separatists "Chechen" finds out that the brothers had an alcoholic father, who had not come home for a week. The separatists are thinking of taking them to their regiment. The position place of the separatists is shelled and Sanya loses his younger brother Valera. In the morning, upset, he looks for him, but sees the horrors of war. The separatists execute Ukrainian soldiers and a "Chechen" gives a gun to Sanya and comand him to kill of ukrainian soldiers.
Sanya runs away. He has a tantrum. Ukrainian volunteers find him and put on an evacuation bus. On the bus, Sanya meets his younger brother Valera. The boys leave the scary zone, but Sanya is now constantly haunted by the ghost of murder.

  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Director
  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Writer
  • Zlata Efimenko
    Producer
  • Georgiy Leshenko
    Key Cast
  • Andrey Domashev
    Key Cast
    "Valera"
  • Slava Tsvetkov
    cinematografer
  • Project Type:
    Feature, Short
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tetiana Dorodnitsyna

Films:
2024 - "When the sun will wake up" a short feature film 15 min. My debut.
2024 - "Everything needs to live" a documentary 70 min (co-director with Andrii Lytvynenko) My debut with documentary. This film won 2 awards on KFF (Poland), 2 awards on Docudays (Ukraine)
2020 - "Roses. The Cabareth" a documentary 90 min (co-editor with Viktor Onisko, Mykola Bazarkin, Iryna Stetsenko)
2019 - "Reserve Askania" a documentary 90 min (co-editor with Mykola Bazarkin) film won award on Docudays (Ukraine), award on Astra Film Fest (Romania)
Education:
University of Culture, Mykolaiv, Ukraine (2002-2007) Faculty of design
University of Cinema and Theatre Karpenko-Kariy, Kyiv, Ukraine (2008 – 2013) Faculty of Film Directing
Participated in film laboratories such as:
- INDIE LAB (Ukraine)
- EURASIA DOC LAB (France)
- ASTRA FILM LAB (Romania)
- YOUNG EUROPE LAB (Poland)
- KHARKIV MEET DOC LAB (Ukraine)
I worked on TV channels, film productions, Kyiv telefilm studio. I am currently working as a freelancer in documentary film, now.

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Director Statement

The film "When the sun will wake up" is about the animal face of war. This is the extreme point of the dialogue, when humanity does not develop in the direction of humanism, but returns to instinctive life. Children, when they fall into the conditions of war, are traumatized by the violence they see there. They can copy this agrecive behavior in their future. Therefore, I wanted to show how one detail (the gun) in the film changes its meaning from beginning to end. A toy became a method of murder.
Beast, who chasing the main character, in the end is an image of war. He tries to make him a beast too, but hero has a chance to change the future. This film about traumatizing of children and that the war draws new generations into a struggle that may never end.
When the sun will wake up? When will humanity be able to make the leap to humane coexistence not an survival of animals?