If you have a SUFF All-Access Festival Pass or a 4 or 10 Film Pass, make sure you're logged into your account to watch this film. If you do not have a Pass, a separate ticket to watch this film can be purchased at the listed price. (Please remember, once you start watching you have 48 hours to finish watching each session.)
FOCUS ON NEW UKRAINIAN CINEMA
From a deep-rooted ancient culture whose story-telling and very identity was banned and repressed for over a hundred years in modern & recent history, comes a raw intensity and sensitivity of poetic story-telling. It is both cathartic and inspiring as it explores and defines new identities of its place in the world.
Thanks to the following organisations for their support: Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, Ivan and Lily Semciw, Mrs Luba Kaye, Knysh & Associates, CYM Sydney, Ukrainian Association of Cabramatta, Fairfield Inc., and Ukrainian Council of NSW.
Curated by Julian Knysh
Available Australia-wide
Limited Tickets Available
A synchronized swimming team has disappeared in the swimming pool during a performance. A patient at a water-therapy clinic has disappeared while taking a bath. How are these cases connected and how does a doll with real hair relate to it? Assigned to investigate, an inspector with no unsolved cases (Anastasiya Yevtushenko) finds herself uncovering secrets about her own identity. Ukrainian writer and director Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy opens his film with quote from H.P Lovecraft and things just get weirder and more foreboding from there, taking us down a dark rabbit hole of Lynchian horror from which there is no escape. Elliptical and unsettling, Stranger ebbs and flows on the dark tides of the subconscious, asking us to confront what lurks beneath the surface.
“Stranger is creative, unusual, striking and complex…” Film Carnage
“…an unusual blend of mystery, science-fiction, horror and fantasy.” Pip Ellwood-Hughes - Entertainment Focus
Awards: Best Sci-Fi Feature Film at the Вloodstained Indie Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan (2019);
Best Original Screenplay at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival, Los Angeles (2019)
Screening with:
THE SECOND WAVE
Dir. Maria Stoianova | 2021 | 5:00 | UKRAINE
Future comes now and in the next second, like waves; while the photography stays at the depth where the wave no longer moves the water particles. This depth is equal to about one half the distance between me and my grandfather; a wavelength.
MARIA
Dir. Vladlen Odudenko | 2021 | 15:00 | UKRAINE
Maria (16) is in despair after the death of her mother. Every day turns into a trial. She is being isolated and abused in a small apartment in one of Kyiv's Residential districts. Maria decides on a desperate deed to put an end to years of violence from which she has suffered.
GOOD BOY
Dir. Mariia Ponomarova | 2021 | 15:00 | UKRAINE
Business analyst Andriy, loaded with his work affairs and responsibilities, takes care of his father's post-surgery rehabilitation. Trying to be in several places at the same time and worrying about the needs of others, Andrew forgets about his own.
- Year2019
- Runtime90 mins
- LanguageUkrainian
- CountryUKRAINE
- PremiereAUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- RatingMA15+
- DirectorDmitriy Tomashpolskiy
If you have a SUFF All-Access Festival Pass or a 4 or 10 Film Pass, make sure you're logged into your account to watch this film. If you do not have a Pass, a separate ticket to watch this film can be purchased at the listed price. (Please remember, once you start watching you have 48 hours to finish watching each session.)
FOCUS ON NEW UKRAINIAN CINEMA
From a deep-rooted ancient culture whose story-telling and very identity was banned and repressed for over a hundred years in modern & recent history, comes a raw intensity and sensitivity of poetic story-telling. It is both cathartic and inspiring as it explores and defines new identities of its place in the world.
Thanks to the following organisations for their support: Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations, Ivan and Lily Semciw, Mrs Luba Kaye, Knysh & Associates, CYM Sydney, Ukrainian Association of Cabramatta, Fairfield Inc., and Ukrainian Council of NSW.
Curated by Julian Knysh
Available Australia-wide
Limited Tickets Available
A synchronized swimming team has disappeared in the swimming pool during a performance. A patient at a water-therapy clinic has disappeared while taking a bath. How are these cases connected and how does a doll with real hair relate to it? Assigned to investigate, an inspector with no unsolved cases (Anastasiya Yevtushenko) finds herself uncovering secrets about her own identity. Ukrainian writer and director Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy opens his film with quote from H.P Lovecraft and things just get weirder and more foreboding from there, taking us down a dark rabbit hole of Lynchian horror from which there is no escape. Elliptical and unsettling, Stranger ebbs and flows on the dark tides of the subconscious, asking us to confront what lurks beneath the surface.
“Stranger is creative, unusual, striking and complex…” Film Carnage
“…an unusual blend of mystery, science-fiction, horror and fantasy.” Pip Ellwood-Hughes - Entertainment Focus
Awards: Best Sci-Fi Feature Film at the Вloodstained Indie Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan (2019);
Best Original Screenplay at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival, Los Angeles (2019)
Screening with:
THE SECOND WAVE
Dir. Maria Stoianova | 2021 | 5:00 | UKRAINE
Future comes now and in the next second, like waves; while the photography stays at the depth where the wave no longer moves the water particles. This depth is equal to about one half the distance between me and my grandfather; a wavelength.
MARIA
Dir. Vladlen Odudenko | 2021 | 15:00 | UKRAINE
Maria (16) is in despair after the death of her mother. Every day turns into a trial. She is being isolated and abused in a small apartment in one of Kyiv's Residential districts. Maria decides on a desperate deed to put an end to years of violence from which she has suffered.
GOOD BOY
Dir. Mariia Ponomarova | 2021 | 15:00 | UKRAINE
Business analyst Andriy, loaded with his work affairs and responsibilities, takes care of his father's post-surgery rehabilitation. Trying to be in several places at the same time and worrying about the needs of others, Andrew forgets about his own.
- Year2019
- Runtime90 mins
- LanguageUkrainian
- CountryUKRAINE
- PremiereAUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- RatingMA15+
- DirectorDmitriy Tomashpolskiy
