Shut the fuck up! (Закрий рота!)

Looking for
Financing, Coproducer, Distributor, Sales Agent, Broadcaster, Festival
Production Status
In Development
Year of starting production
2020
Release Date
2021
Country(ies) of (co)production
Ukraine, French
Languages
Ukrainian
Duration
80’
Web Page

Serhiy, a shy teenager aged 16, investigates corruption in his small town near Kyiv, until one day, he gets punched by a local council member. Three years later, Serhiy is now 19, and he's going to get his revenge – by running for office against the man who tried to silence him.

Shut the fuck up! is a refreshing documentary about the small "underground Maidans" that have silently irrigated society since the Revolution of Dignity. In 2014, Serhiy was still just a child. At the age of 16, he was outraged when he discovered the scope of corruption in his small town of Hatne in the outskirts of Kyiv. As a teenager, he became a whistleblower. A Ukrainian Gretha Thunberg, Serhiy engages the fight and gets physically assaulted; the assault was met with total impunity. Aged 18, he becomes an assistant to Yevgeniya Zakrevskaya, a lawyer of the victims of Maidan, at a time when too many civil activists are subjected to violence. One day, pushed by conscious citizens, Serhiy decides to go into politics.

CREW:
Directing: Taisiia Kutuzova
Сo-production: Stephane Siohan, Stephane Siohan (France)
Script: Taisiia Kutuzova
Production:
Co-production: East Roads Films
Funding:
Total budget: €94000
Confirmed Financing: €15000
Already engaged financial partners and funds: British Coucil in Ukraine, USAID, goEast Wiesbaden
Point of contact:
Festivals
Docudays UA industry platform 2019 & 2020, Eurasia.DOC 2020 (Russia), Development award winner - goEast Wiesbaden 2020 (Germany), Baltic Sea Forum 2020 (Latvia)

Submit your project to the catalog