DOCU/UKRAINE

Askania Reserve

Year
2019
Country
Ukraine
Duration
75’
Director
Andriy Lytvynenko

The narrative of the film centres around four characters with entirely different attitudes, destinies, and life goals. However, they share the desire to preserve life inside the largest oasis in Ukraine, which is drastically losing its uniqueness.

CREW:
Director: Andriy Lytvynenko
Producer: Anna Palenchuk
Cinematographer: Denys Strashnyi
Editor: Mykola Bazarkin, Tetyana Dorodnitsyna
Sound: Maksym Yachmin
Production
435 FILMS, Anna Palenchuk, +380 (67) 323 75 15
Sales:
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Director
Andriy Lytvynenko

Andriy Lytvynenko received a degree in film and theatre directing from the Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film, and Television University in 2012. He was the author of the idea and one of the directors of the Beyond the Euro film almanac about the Euro-2012 World Football Championship. He has participated in the anthologies Ukrainian Voices, Euromaidan. Rough Cut, and Kyiv from Dusk till Dawn. In 2013, he received a Gaude Polonia grant and studied at the documentary studio of the Wajda School in Warsaw. He came up with the idea for The Trial. The State of Russia vs. Oleg Sentsov.

Selected Filmography

Internally Displaced Persons – Upwards No Matter What (2016), Vattenti (2017), Science Will Win!!! (2017), Askania Reserve (2018)

Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with English subtitles
Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Q&A
Original language with English subtitles
Hall «KINOMAN»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
STUDENTS JURY AWARD
Original language with English subtitles
Hall «ANSHLAG»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with English subtitles
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