Private Project

Yin and Yang

A person is a dance of two opposites: good and evil, love and hate, etc. Zhenia is an artist who lost this balance after his girlfriend's betrayal. He plots how to take revenge on the traitor, but his thirst for revenge turns into an unexpected outcome.

  • Yana Kulynych
    Director
  • Yana Kulynych
    Writer
  • Khrystyna Amirza
    Producer
  • Yana Kulynych
    Producer
  • Zakhar Shadrin
    Key Cast
    "Zhenia"
  • Kseniia Hatsura
    Key Cast
    "Inga"
  • Eduard Tymoshenko
    Camera
  • Artur Lisnyi
    Music
  • Yana Kulynych
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Інь і Ян
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 59 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 7, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    850 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Ukraine
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Ukrainian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Ukrainian Film School
  • Kamianets-Podilskyi International Film Festival "BRUKIVKA"
    Kamianets-Podilskyi
    Ukraine
    November 18, 2022
    Official selection
  • Kosice International Film Festival
    Košice
    Slovakia
    October 27, 2022
    Best Student Film
  • Special screening thanks to Prague International Film Awards
    Prague
    Czech Republic
    December 1, 2022
    Special program Výběr Ukrajinských kraťasů / Ukrainian shorts
  • Ukrainian Short Filmmakers / organized by Cultural Workers Studio
    Berlin
    Germany
    March 5, 2023
    Charity Screening
  • Short Cut Film Festival
    Kyiv
    Ukraine
    June 11, 2023
    Special screening
  • MICT Film Festival
    Nantes
    France
    December 2, 2023
    Official selection
  • Hamburg-Ukraine Kinoclub
    Hamburg
    Germany
    May 22, 2024
Director Biography - Yana Kulynych

Yana Kulynych is a Ukrainian director, scriptwriter and poet.
She was born in 1999 in Kyiv.

Yana graduated from from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a Bachelor of Philosophy in 2020.
She finished the course in directing and scriptwriting in ProDuck School (curator Dmytro Sukholutkyy-Sobchuk) in 2020.
Yana graduated from Ukrainian Film School in the study program “Directing” in 2021.

Filmography: Confession (2021), Yin and Yang (2021), Martha (2022)

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Director Statement

In this film I wanted to show that person has a dual nature. The person is not just purely good or purely bad and it is normal, that’s what makes person a really holistic one.
"Yin and Yang" is about violation of this human integrity. In the protagonist Zhenia takes place already not a harmonious dance of opposites, but their struggle (Inga is Zhenia’s good alter ego).
Hatred takes possession of Zhenia and his hatred destroys him.