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By Olha ZHURBA

Documentary - Completed 2022

The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter.

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CPH:DOX 2022

DOX:AWARD

Hot Docs 2022

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2022

Kharkiv MeetDocs 2022

Winner of the National Competition and Special Mention by the Ukrainian Film Critics Association Jury

Berlin HRFF 2022

Winner of the Willy Brandt Documentary Film Prize for Freedom and Human Rights for the best film in competition

Japan Prize Festival 2023

Award of Honor in the Lifelong Learning Division

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Documentary, First film, Female director
- Countries
- UKRAINE, NETHERLANDS, DENMARK
- Languages
- UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 79 mn
- Director(s)
- Olha ZHURBA
- Producer(s)
- Darya BASSEL (MOON MAN), Viktoria KHOMENKO (MOON MAN)
- Synopsis
- After his mother was deprived of parental rights, 13-years-old Roma escapes to the Ukrainian revolution, becoming a part of the Maidan uprising. His childhood experience of survival in a devastating environment and street skills turns into his advantages as he engages in the most dangerous events of the revolution. The people around him admire his courage. Here, for the first time in his life, Romani boy Roma is accepted by society and feels that he is necessary.
  
  In the aftermath of the revolution, Roma ends up at a boarding school; however, instead of the necessary psychological and social rehabilitation, the system only provides some conditional assistance.
  
  When he turns 18, Roma is expelled from the boarding school without a chance of graduating, accommodation or money. He returns to his native, criminogenic town of Yahotyn and gradually immerses into the criminal world. His older brother Kolya, who was just released from prison and has an influence on Roma, is among the few people who care about him. Kolya shares his experience of survival outside of jail. The independent life is a challenge for Roma, and the camera witnesses his insignificant efforts to cope with normal existence: he finishes his studies in 9th grade, tries to find a job, and to abstain from drugs. Still, all his efforts are futile. However, hope is always looming somewhere in the future.

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