Beware of a good dog!

Program:

National Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Ukraine, Poland

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

27’

Stepan regularly adopts elderly dogs from the shelter, giving them comfort in their final days and allowing them to pass away peacefully by his side. This is his own way of coming to terms with the end of life. He dreams of dying peacefully of old age, not from a missile hit. But peace is a privilege stolen by a young boy named Gogo. What happens when the two of them from different generations, yet equally lonely, meet at a cemetery at night? They share a cigarette, eat a bucket of ice cream, and dance.

Schedule

Adelina Borets

Director, producer, and scriptwriter born in Mariupol. She is an alumnus of the Warsaw Film School and the Wajda School and holds an MA in Film Directing from the Kieślowski Film School. Currently, Adelina lives between Warsaw and Kyiv, as she feels it’s impossible to live without the Ukrainian context and realities. She is working on projects that explore the concepts of home and roots, as well as interdependencies and complex human reactions. She is a founder of NGO Stroom.

Filmography: Увага, добрий пес! (2024), Квіти України (2024), Eden House (2021), The Wormwood Star (2018)

Creative team

Director

Adelina Borets

Screenplay

Adelina Borets

Camera

Pawel Kozak

Editing

Jakub Bastkovski

Production design

Asia Berezhanu, Tetiana Tymofiichyk