Voice messages sent from the disappearing city with hope to be heard.
Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy amidst the distance imposed by war. It unfolds through the voice messages of a foreign correspondent stationed in a front-line city.
CREW:
Script: Ihor Babaiev
DOP: Iryna Rybakova, Svitlana Dolbysheva, Ihor Babaiev, Masha Vyshedska
Sound: Daina Dieva, Xenia Vynogradova
Music: Daina Dieva
Funding:
Already engaged financial partners and funds: Kinodopomoha (Ukraine), Kaunas Artists' House (Lithuania)
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Festivals
National Competition Grand Prix by the Jury of the Union of the Ukrainian Film Critics at Kyiv International Short Film Festival (2023), Special mention by the Jury of the National Competition Programme at Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art (2023), Special mention by the Jury of the National Competition at Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist (2023), Participant at Vilnius IFF (2024), market screening at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2024)