Don't Worry, The Doors Will Open (Не хвилюйся, двері відчиняться)

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Broadcaster, Festival
Production Status
Сompleted
Year of starting production
2019
Release Date
2019
Country(ies) of (co)production
Ukraine, Canada
Languages
Ukrainian
Duration
75’

A train film documenting the pulse of Ukraine in the director's native country.

Shot over summer and winter seasons on the elektrychka, a typical Soviet commuter train that travels between Kyiv and several small provincial towns, Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open invites us to share a ride with working-class, mostly marginalised passengers and vendors. Following a number of people and families from one grimy wagon to another, from station to station, we are immersed in their everyday struggles and learn about the dilemmas of building a new post-revolutionary identity. Don’t Worry, The Doors Will Open is an atmospheric and intensely human vérité portrait of Ukrainian society on the move.

CREW:
Directing: Oksana Karpovych
DOP: Christopher Nunn
Sound: Andre Smelov, Simon Gervais
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Festivals
2019 – Montreal International Documentary Festival, New Visions Award
2020 - Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival, honorable jury mention
2020 - DOXA, Vancouver

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