Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 2 - 10, 2010

Wayfarers
( Podorožni )

Black and white, 35 mm
Ukraine, 2005, 10 min
Section: Documentary Films in Competition
www.kinokolo.ua/podorozhni

Director: Igor Strembitskyy
Screenplay: Natalija Konončuk/Natalya Kononchuk
Dir. of Photography: Igor Strembitskyy, Artem Vasyliev
Editor: Igor Strembitskyy, Tajsja Bojko/Taisiya Boyko
Production: I. Karpenko-Karyy Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television
Contact: Igor Strembitskyy

Synopsis

A house surrounded by a garden, inside a corridor, differently equipped rooms and their occupants, patients at a psychiatric hospital. They warm themselves in the sun, we hear music, snatches of songs, a lullaby… Images of faces of those close to them whom they perhaps don’t even remember. What and how do these wayfarers, unwillingly cast out from our lives, perceive in their moments of joy and sorrow? They are like trees in the wind and rain, a painful reminiscence of mothers, women and children…

About the director

Igor Strembitskyy shot his impassioned short film Wayfarers (Podorozhni, 2005) in a co-production with the Karpenko-Karyy State Stage and Film Institute in Kiev. The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in the short film competition.