Ukrainian post-Soviet noir won at the Vilnius Film Festival
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The film “La Palisade” directed by Philip Sotnichenko became the best film of the Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris. Read UP.Kultura in Telegram The film team announced this on social networks. It was at the festival in Vilnius that the Lithuanian premiere of Sotnichenko’s film took place. In 2016, one of the director’s previous works – the short film “Son” – was presented at the same film festival. “This is a kind of confirmation that my team and I can arouse curiosity with our creativity. It is very pleasing and important to us that our cinema has supporters,” director Sotnychenko said in a comment to UP.Kultura. “It’s a pity that it wasn’t released abroad, because here everyone asks why it was released before, but not now! I hope that next time the award for the best film will be accepted by the director!” – producer Valeriya Sochivets commented on the film’s victory. “La Palisade” is Sotnichenko’s full-length debut in the genre of post-Soviet noir. The events take place in Ukraine in 1996, a few months before the signing of Protocol No. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which provided for the abolition of the death penalty. The tape tells about a forensic psychiatrist who has to take part in the complicated story of the murder of a policeman. The law enforcement officers are in a hurry to close the case before the death penalty is abolished, but the doctor is not sure of the defendant’s jurisdiction. And when he sees how judicial experiments are conducted on the suspect, he begins to doubt the transparency of the law enforcement system. Filming took place in Transcarpathia and Kyiv. For them, a special technology was used, which involves a combination of film retro image and modern digital technologies. Andriy Zhurba, Novruz Hikmet, Oleksandr Parkhomenko, Valeria Oleinikova, Olena Mamchur, Oleksandr Marleev played the main roles in the film. The world premiere of the film took place at the Rotterdam Film Festival. There, the tape was presented in the main competition and received the FIPRESCI award. Poster of the film “La Palisade” Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris is an annual film festival that has been held in March in Vilnius since 1995. It is the largest film festival in Lithuania in terms of number of films and audience. This year the festival lasted from March 16 to 26. Read also: The myth of the God fighter against the background of Malanka. The film “Pamfir” has finally been released
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