Short Cuts
Screening: Sun, Oct 4 · 2:30 PM
Time: 100 min
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From first desire to the ache of separation, these fiction and documentary short films explore intimacy amid the uncertainty of life in present-day Ukraine.
Sonia's blossom
Nataliia Suprun | 14:59' | 2025
In one of the hamlets, the orchards started to bloom. Sonia is hurrying to a date. She is about to undergo initiation into adulthood through her first sexual experience. But the frost is coming and it can kill the blossom.
Mother
Mariia Felenko | 7:30' | 2023
With the beginning of the war, Katya decided to leave her hometown and take her mother. There's just one problem: mother is getting a pedicure.
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Kyrylo Zemlyanyi | 20:00' | 2025
Serhii, a young man who fills his days with volunteer work, loses contact with his mother living in occupied territory. When his mother finally decides to evacuate, he learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.
Curfew
Yelyzaveta Toptyhina | 22:32' | 2025
During an expedition, a young photographer miscalculates the time and misses her ride back to the city. At a bus stop, she meets a young man celebrating his birthday. With curfew approaching, the two strangers are forced to spend the night together at a roadside hotel.
Tell Me a Fairytale
Diana Anikieieva | 21:00' | 2026
Openly gay soldier Pavlo and his boyfriend Vlad become a public couple. Constant media attention takes a toll on their relationship. The film follows their year-long struggle to maintain intimacy under the weight of war, distance, and unhealed trauma.
As It Was
Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian Kocur | 14:52' | 2023
Lera returns to Kyiv for the first time since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine. Over the course of a single day with her loved ones, she gradually rediscovers the everyday reality and routines of life during wartime.