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The Editorial Office + ScreenTalk: director Roman Bondarchuk & producer/co-writer Dar'ya Averchenko (15)

New East Cinema

A young man with a professional camera looks ahead, whilst another man with a camera stands behind him, ready to shoot.

A young scientist travels across the Ukrainian steppe with a photo camera hoping to find an endangered groundhog, but comes across a crime that will change the trajectory of his life.

Trying to expose the truth about an arson, Yura (Dmytro Bahnenko) starts work at a local newspaper that, instead of helping him deliver justice, will send him through a rabbit hole and show him a society permeated by corruption. Fake news, local oligarchs, rigged elections, and bizarre cults are all framed by a looming war. 

After his acclaimed debut narrative feature Volcano (2018), director Roman Bondarchuk returns to his native Southern Ukraine, and to what is now recognisably his signature style, to deliver a masterfully crafted absurdist and timely satire.

Director Roman Bondarchuk and producer/co-writer Dar'ya Averchenko will join in person for a ScreenTalk following the screening.

In Ukrainian with English subtitles

With thanks to the Ukranian Institute London.

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