Marysia Nikitiuk : 2018
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The story of a five-year-old girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds herself at a crossroads after the death of her father. Yearning to be self-made, the village community ostracises her for loving Scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrificed her love for a young gypsy, abandoning him for traditional values and other people's opinions. Larysa's mother is too psychologically weak to support her daughter. Larysa and Scar plan to escape from a life of crime, misery and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for freedom? As the summer holidays arrive, forty days have passed since Larysa's father died. In a fairy-tale sequence, the young woman traverses a swampy landscape where a group of couples surrender to their sexual desires. Vitka is a little girl who also refuses to toe the line. Rebelling against her grandmother and her rules and regulations, she daydreams her life away in a fantasy land of surreal images. Writer/director Marysia Nikitiuk's script received the Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award for the Best script from Eastern Europe at Festival de Cannes 2016. Her feature debut premiered in the Panorama section at Berlin International Film Festival 2018.
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