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KLONDIKE

By Maryna ER GORBACH

ARTHOOD ENTERTAINMENT GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2022

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Ukraine and Russia during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the centre of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.

Festivals
& Awards

Neisse Film festival 2021

Festival Sonderpreis

Sundance Film Festival 2022

World Cinema Dramatic Competition Directing Award

Busan IFF 2022

World Cinema

Les Arcs Film Festival 2022

Oscar on skis

Ghent International Film Festival 2022

Grand Prix, Special Mention, Youth Jury Award, Grand Prix, Critic’s Choice Award

Thessanoliki Film Festival 2022

Best Film, Golden Alexander

Istanbul Film Festival 2022

Best Director of photography

Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022

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- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UKRAINE, TURKEY
- Languages
- UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN, DUTCH
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Maryna ER GORBACH
- Synopsis
- July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk district of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war. Their nervous anticipation of their first child’s birth is violently disrupted as the vicinal crash of flight MH17 elevates the forbidding tension enveloping their village. The looming wreckage of the downed airliner and an incoming parade of mourners emphasize the surreal trauma of the moment.
  
  As Tolik’s separatist friends expect him to join their efforts, Irka’s brother is enraged by suspicions that the couple has betrayed Ukraine. Irka refuses to be evacuated even as the village gets captured by armed forces, and she tries to make peace between her husband and brother by asking them to repair their bombed house.

KLONDIKE

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