Paper Knight

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2022

Country:

Ukraine

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

16ʼ

The citizens of Kharkiv saw much death and atrocity. Some lost relatives, others lost their homes, their streets, their past, their memories. But Kharkiv residents still have the strength to fight; to meet up for poetry readings, to discuss writers, to sing lullabies. The main protagonist Roman is a Kharkiv resident, who is madly in love with poetry. And he expresses this love like Don Quixote, like a madman, like a real Paper Knight.

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Oleksander Khomenko

Oleksander Khomenko was born in Kyiv. He directed ten music videos, working with famous Ukrainian artists such as: Kalush Orchestra, Nazva, Tember Blanche. Before Russia's full-scale invasion he staged and performed theatrical plays of Russian classical writers. After 47 days in occupation, he changed his career dramatically. He is founder of “MUR”, one of the biggest Ukrainian cultural projects about Ukrainian Literature.

Filmography: The art of Propaganda (2021), Old-fashioned Cossacks' Blues (2022), Paper Knight (2022)

Creative team

Director

Oleksander Khomenko

Screenplay

Oleksander Khomenko

Camera

Dmytro Shovgelya

Editing

Oleksander Khomenko

Music

Carlos Cipa, Yevhenii Dubovyk, Gustavo Santaolalla