Archive of films Wayfarers / Podorožni

Ukraine
2005, 10 min

Section: Documentary Films - Competition
Year: 2005

A house surrounded by a garden, inside a corridor, differently equipped rooms - and everywhere you look patients at a psychiatric hospital. They communicate with the doctors and among themselves, they warm themselves in the sun, we hear music, snatches of songs, a lullaby: images appear of faces of those close to them whom they perhaps don’t even remember.

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.

Contacts

Igor Strembitskyy
Prospect 40-richchya Zhovtnya 7, apt. 79, 03039, Kiev
Ukraine
Tel: +38 066 463 2224
E-mail: [email protected]

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About the film

Black & white, 35 mm

Section:	Documentary Films - Competition

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

www:	www.kinokolo.ua/podorozhni

Guests

Igor Strembitskyy

Film Director

Natalya Kononchuk

Screenwriter