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FUCKING SENSITIVITY

By Tetiana SYMON

First film - Development 2025

Yasya, a journalist, can not pull out of the mess her life has become. She must admit to herself that she can’t continue working due to professional burnout. By researching the stories of people from the social sector, Yasia decides to find out what helps these people to keep on doing their work.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- First film, Female director, Drama
- Countries
- UKRAINE
- Languages
- UKRANIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Tetiana SYMON
- Writer(s)
- Tetiana SYMON
- Cast
- Rita BURKOVSKA, Roman LUTSKIY
- Producer(s)
- Alexandra BRATYSHCHENKO (ELERON PICTURES)
- Synopsis
- Yasia is a journalist working with sensitive topics. After her reportage on the veterans' rehab, the respondent kills himself. The girl is on the verge of burnout. The open relationship with her husband Arthur exhaust her even more. Yasia wants to distract herself from problems. She gets drunk at a party and run into Arthur. They are making love, but instead of relief, Yasia gets a panic attack. Arthur helps her to get over it. Yasia asks for divorce.
  Yasia decides to finish her text about the rehabilitation of volunteers. She gets to the rehabilitation training and decides to take part in it. It revives her. She finishes her writing at the moment when Russia starts bombing Ukrainian citcities.
- Partners & financing
- Project supported by FilmBoost (scholarship from DocuDays UA and Deutsche Filmakademie).
  2022:
  ● Pitching at Odesa International Film Festival / Pristina Film Festival
  ● Pitching at Odesa International Film Festival / Warsaw Film Festival
  ● Pitching at Stockholm Film Festival
  ● Participation in the Pop-Up Film Residency for a month (December 2022)
  to write a caption. Mentors: Sonja Prosenc and Matthieu Darras. 2023:
  ● Participation in the LIM + Terrarium workshop
  ● Pitching Ukraine in Focus during Mache Du Film
- Production schedule
- Currently, the project is in the early development stage. We have received partial funding for development from Filmboost, the program that Deutsche Filmakademie and Docudays UA support.
  We wish to finalise development by the end of 2023 to collect all production funding in 2024. Estimated delivery date — beginning of 2025.
  The project was attended at Pop Up Film Residence and LIM+Terrarium programme. Thanks to both workshops, we will present our project at Marche du Film during the Cannes Film Festival.
- Beginning of shooting
- Apr 21, 2024
- End of shooting
- May 23, 2023