Black Dog

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2022

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

20ʼ

Leva, a kind-hearted young poet, lives and works at a construction site on the outskirts of a Ukrainian city. He dreams of moving to the city where he wants to enroll in a university. Leva starts experiencing feelings towards one of his workmates, Gosha, but keeps it to himself. It all changes when he starts to think that the affection might be mutual. During a night out at a roadside bar, Leva decides to open up to Gosha.

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Нікіта Зарх

Nikita Zarkh was born in Odesa, Ukraine. In 2012 he moved to New York in pursuit of a lifelong dream of becoming a filmmaker. Nikita enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, where he studied directing, graduating from SVA in 2017 with a thesis film ON THE SURFACE OF THE HOLE.

Nikita’s scripts were officially selected by numerous screenplay competitions. SPARROW, a short film, which Nikita wrote and co-directed, was officially selected by several film festivals.

Filmography: Sparrow (2021), Black Dog (2022), On The Serfice of the Hole (2017)

Creative team

Director

Nikita Zarkh

Screenplay

Nikita Zarkh

Camera

Denis Melnik

Editing

Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi, Yaroslav Khramov

Production design

Alex Ischuk