HEAT SINGERS

СПІВАЄ ІФТКЕ

By Nadia PARFAN

PHALANSTERY FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Ukrainian Film Critics Award "Kinokolo" 2019
Best Documentary
Odesa International Film Festival 2019
Trieste Film Festival 2020
Ukrainian Film Academy Award "Golden Dzyga" 2020
Best Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UKRAINE
    • Duration
    • 64 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nadia PARFAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Illia GLADSHTEIN (Phalanstery Films)
    • Synopsis
    • For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that "the heating comes first - and only then do we sing!". The rehearsal schedule must be organized around the "heating season". As the collective are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?