Rodnye - Close Relation
Synopsis
Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych’s flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict’s deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.Festivals/Awards
2016Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic
Odessa IFF, Ukraine
Toronto IFF, Canada
Batumi Art FF, Georgia (Special Mention Int’l Doc Comp.)
Bergen IFF 2016, Norway
BFI London FF, UK
Riga IFF, Latvia (opening film)
Dok Leipzig, Germany
IDFA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trieste IFF, Italy
DocPoint IDF Helsinki, Finland
Göteborg IFF, Sweden
2022
LETsDOK
Cast and Crew
- Director Vitaly Mansky
Original Languages
Ukrainian
Russian
Production Company
SAXONIA ENTERTAINMENT GmbH office LeipzigAltenburger Str. 9, 04275 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 35004100
Fax: +49 341 35004110
info@saxonia-entertainment.dehttps://www.saxonia-entertainment.de
Links / Reference
vimeo.com/170057060