2025, Ukraine, in the aftermath of a devastating war. The area is deemed unsuitable for habitation, the environment is irreversibly ravaged, people are drifting like spooks, struggling to eke out a rudimentary sense of living. Sergiy, a former soldier tortured by PTSD, joins a voluntary team that digs up soldiers’ corpses from unmarked graves. The emotionless identification of the decomposed cadavers is intertwined with the brutality of the dystopian landscape of mud, metal and spouting smoke. A post-apocalyptic tale that seeks hope in the hopeless and squeezes out a drop of affection in the midst of a desert-like human wasteland.
Atlantis
Atlantis
60th TIFF: Greek Premiere
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- Direction: Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Script: Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Cinematography: Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Editing: Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Sound: Sergiy Stepanskiy
- Actors: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak
- Production: Garmata Film Studios, Limelite
- Producers: Iya Myslytska, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Vladimir Yatsenko
- Costumes: Karoline Sheremeta
- Sets: Vladlen Odudenko
- Camera: Yurij Dunaj
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Ukraine
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 108´
- Contact: Best Friend Forever, sales@bffsales.eu
- Awards/Distinctions: Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Venice FF 2019
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Valentyn Vasyanovych is a director, producer, and DoP. He was born in 1971 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He graduated from the Karpenko-Kary National University of Theater, Film, and Televiision as a cinematographer (in 1995) and a documentary filmmaker (2000). In 2012, he made his debut feature film Business as Usual (Odessa International Film Festival, Special Jury Mention, FICC award). In 2019, the feature anti-utopia film Atlantis won the Best Film Award in Orizzonti at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and a large number of prizes and awards around the world. In 2021, his newest feature Reflection has been selected for Competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Filmography
1998 Keepsake (doc)
2001 Old People (doc)
2004 Against the Sun (doc)
2012 Business as Usual
2013 Credenza
2014 Crepuscule (doc)
2017 Black Level
2019 Atlantis
2021 Reflection
