PAMFIR

Western Ukraine, on the eve of a traditional carnival. Pamfir returns to his family after months of absence. Their love is so unconditional that when his only child starts a fire in the prayer house, Pamfir has no other choice but to reconnect with his troubled past to repair his son’s fault. He will be taken on a risky path with irreversible consequences.

Pamfir is a drama that replays the biblical myth of Abraham according to the canons of Greek tragedy against the background of the famous Ukrainian carnival of Malanka. It is driven by six main characters. Pamfir is the central figure. He is the one who starts the chain of events. Moreover, the story focuses primarily on Pamfir’s relationship to his wife Olena and his son Nazar as well as his relationship to his mother and his brother Viktor. And, above all, his conflict with his father. Like in a detective story, each scene reveals reasons for this conflict and unravels the intertwined family relationships. The smuggling business is the backdrop of the events framed by village life and the Malanka carnival. For me, reproducing a singular reality on screen is of utmost importance. My task as a director is to make a film built on actions, with a mini- mum of dialogue, based on a universal story, understandable and moving for the spectator of any country. It is about embodying the psychology of complex and multiple characters, with paradoxical acts and situations.

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nikita Kuzmenko. FILM EDITING: Nikodem Chabior. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ivan Mykhailov. MUSIC: Laetitia Pansanel-Garric. SOUND: Serhiy Stepanskyy. CAST: Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potyak, Solomiya Kyrylova, Olena Khokhlatkina, Myroslav Makoviychuk, Ivan Sharan. PRODUCERS: Aleksandra Kostina, Jane Yatsuta. PRODUCTION: Bosonfilm, Jane Yatsuta. COPRODUCTION: Les Films d’Ici, Madants (Poland), Quijote Films.