Roman lives a lonely life in a provincial city and works as a technician. For the first time since graduation, Liuda, his ex-classmate, comes back to town. Nobody has heard anything from her for twenty years, but Roman is set on not losing her again.

Direction: Pavlo Ostrikov

Script: Pavlo Ostrikov

Production: Yurii Minzianov

Cinematography: Kyryl Shlyamin

Editing: Yevgen Golovanchuk

Production Design: Diana Todoratieva

Animation: Kyryl Shlyamin

Costume Design: Natalia Marcilenko

Make-Up: Diana Todoratieva

Sound: Serzh Avdeev

Original Score: Braty Gzhegozhevsky, Trio Marenych

Cast: Oleksandr Pozharsky, Lesya Ostrovska

Original Title: ВИПУСК '97

Original Language: Ukrainian

Film Production Country: Ukraine

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/graduation97/

Statement of the Director/s

In my film I want to show the lost generation of Ukrainians. The protagonists were born when the Soviet empire collapsed. They matured and began to build their own world when the young Ukraine had not yet taken shape.

One scene in this film shows the protagonist go through the crowd in the market with antennas on his back. They look like the skeletons of torn wings, and protagonist as a mythological Icarus, who has not achieved his idealistic goal.

I used to live in little town, where time stopped. And for me, it is very important to show generation of Ukrainians, who lost their dreams and became lonely people.

Biography of the Director/s
Born in Ukraine in 1990, Pavlo Ostrikov graduated from the National Aviation University in Kiev before taking screenwriting classes at the New York Film Academy. A member of the public organization Contemporary Ukrainian cinema. Pavlo Ostrikov is also a stand-up comedian.

Filmography of the Director/s
2018 - Mia donna;
2017 - Graduation '97;
2016 - Golden love

Awards Won
Locarno Film Festival - the best international short film by Junior Jury,
OIFF – the best short film,
Molodist OIFF - the best short film,
Leuven IFF – winner

World Sales:
Kristi Films
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Kyiv, 04030, Ukraine
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +380443620407
Website: http://www.kristifilms.com/en/movies

Press:
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