VIRA SHORT FILM, 2022

23 min, content warning : war, blood. Filmed in Ukraine.

Starring : Svetlana Gordiienko, Yurii Felipenko, Elizaveta Zayshla

Vira is worried about celebrating her 10th birthday. She really wants to grow up quickly, to be liked by her classmates, and to have her grandparents come to the celebration.

However, her usual childhood excitement is interrupted by terrible visions of the war in Ukraine.

Little Vira does not know what war is, but she constantly feels danger - her mother always turns off the TV, fights with her father when he raises this topic. Who is Russia and why can it attack us? Why is mom always on the phone? Why tape on the windows? Why did the father forbid the grandfather and grandmother to leave Bucha?...

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"Vira"cannot be kept in free access at the moment, as it is presented at international festivals.

But you can watch our backstage video.

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