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Wayfarers

Documentary Films - Competition 2005 / Podorožni / Ukraine 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.

Wayfarers Wayfarers

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 film

10 min / Black & white, 35 mm

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

About the director

Igor Strembitskyy

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.

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

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Igor Strembitskyy
Film Director

Natalya Kononchuk
Screenwriter

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