short films collection, 115 min, eng subtitles
Ukraine Goodbye is an experimental laboratory, created to find ways of developing Ukrainian cinema. 25 films, with 6 hours total screening time, were made during the project. Theatrical release version includes 6 shorts, selected by producers. Over 500 people were involved in the project during two years of its realisation, including directors and script writers, actors and producers, cameramen and sound engineers, actors, and many more. This background makes Ukraine Goodbye an important professional community-building project for developing Ukrainian industry. Films from the Ukraine Goodbye project were presented at over two dozen festivals all over the world, namely in Cannes, Locarno, New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bilbao, etc. Ukraine Goodbye is a piece of socio-anthropological film research by young Ukrainian filmmakers in search of a hero of their time. Initiated as a project about emigration, the project eventually developed into a statement of a generation of new Ukrainian film-makers, about contemporary Ukraine and Ukrainians. A Date by Yevgen Matvienko The Beard by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk The Pie by Yuriy Kovalyov Death Angel by Volodymyr Tykhyy How Cossacks Flew to Space by Yevgen Matvienko Nuclear Waste by Myroslav Slaboshpitskyy Awards Nuclear Waste (Silver Leopard Locarno IFF, Kinoshok IFF Grand Prix...)