Before Curfew

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2023

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

23ʼ

Two queer people meet on the train and spontaneously decide to get out in Kyiv and spend the day together. They hear explosions while talking about intimacy and tenderness. They share thoughts about living in this cruel reality. They share their pain. Their youth was stolen from them. Can they still feel something other than pain?

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Angelika Ustymenko

Angelika Ustymenko is a non-binary queer filmmaker and activist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. They are a part of Rebel Queers whose actions are aimed at honouring queer people and realising their liberation. In 2022, Angelika made a documentary about Ukrainian queer people during the war. Recently, they made a new documentary about queer people in the Ukrainian army “Rebel Queers: Ukraine’s Queer Resistance” as well as a fiction short film “Before Curfew”.

Filmography: Before Curfew (2023), Rebel Queers: Ukraine's Queer Resistance (2023), Ukrainian Queer Fighters for Freedom (2022), Eclipse of my heart (2021), Margo (2018)

Creative team

Director

Angelika Ustymenko

Screenplay

Angelika Ustymenko

Camera

Kostyantyn Mykhaylovskyy

Editing

Angelika Ustymenko

Producer

Angelika Ustymenko

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