Honeymoon

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

84’

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras and Olia spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they wake up from the explosions. They fail to leave the town on time, meanwhile, the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection. For the next 5 days, Taras and Olia will explore the black abyss of real intimacy between two people and face crucial existential questions in mortal danger.

Schedule

Zhanna Ozirna

Ukrainian director and screenwriter based in Kyiv. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and the Directors’ Guild of Ukraine. In 2018 Zhanna’s short film, BOND, which received a jury special mention at Odesa IFF, was awarded with the Oppose Othering grant program at GoEast Film Festival and took part in a B2B Doc Story Developing workshop. In 2019, her short fiction THE ADULT was presented in the special programme The State of a New Generation within the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. In 2020, Zhanna’s animation short project ANNA & GRAVITY won the Jury Special Mention for the best script pitching within Interfilm Berlin Script Lab. She is a Berlinale alumni (2020), and has been in residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Les Récollets (Paris, 2022) and the Marathon Screenings (Los Angeles, 2023).

Filmography: Медовий місяць (2024), Дорослий (2019), Зв’язок (2018), Благодать (2017), Живі й нескорені (2016), Зустріч (2016)

Creative team

Director

Zhanna Ozirna

Screenplay

Zhanna Ozirna

Camera

Volodymyr Usyk

Editing

Zhanna Ozirna, Philip Sotnychenko

Production design

Marharita Kulyk