Борода / The Beard / Boroda (film by Suholytkyy-Sobchuk / режисер Дмитро Сухолиткий-Собчук)

Synopsis: An old man lives his life in a small dilapidated village. his neighbor Genyk and his daughter are the only ones who remember his name. Everybody in the village call him "The Beard". His daughter is not with him and his neighbor cannot understand what's in his mind. The Beard... feeds chickens, smokes cheep cigarettes, likes fishing and looking at the water with hope for changes. once he'll find the patron for the gun ... to change everything in one moment... To disappear... Director : Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Scriptwriter: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Director of photography: Sergiy Krutko Production designer: Olga Yurasova Cast: Zinoviy Symchych Maria Romanova Gilberto Forti Mykola Gomenyuk Evgen Zelinskyy "The Beard" was part of short almanac "Ukraine, Goodbye!" and entered to the collection "Ukrainian New Wave" best short films of Ukraine in 2012. LIST OF AWARDS 1. Ukrainian Film Festival “Vidkryta Nich” Best screenplay, Kiev, Ukraine, 2012 2. Script took the main award in script section of “Coronation of the word” (National Scripts Festival) , Kiev, Ukraine, 2012 LIST OF FESTIVALS 1. PRIFILMFEST International Film Festival, Prishtina, Republic of Kosova, 2013 2. Tbilisi International Student Film Festival "AMIRANI", Tbilisi, Georgia, 2013 3. Ljubljana International Short Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013 4. 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2013 5. "Short Film Corner", Cannes IFF, 2012 6. 4-th Leiden Internation short Film Experience, Netherlands, 2012 7. 3d Kinofest, USA, New-York, 2012 8. Osen Kino Fest, Moscow, Russia, 2012 9. 42-th International Film Festival "Molodist", Kyiv, Ukraine, 2012 10. International Film Festival “KinoLev”, Lviv, Ukraine, 2012 11. Odessa IFF, Ukraine, (National competition), 2012 SPECIAL SCRENINGS 1. 24th FilmFestival Cottbus Special Programme dedicated to Ukraine, Cottbus, Germany 2014 2. CinEast, Festival du Film d’Europe Centrale, Special Programme “focus on Ukraine”, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2014 3. Interfilm 30th International Short Film Festival Special Programme "Ukraine Shorts" Berlin, Germany, 2014 4. NexT International Film Festival, Special Programme “Angry Ukrainians”, Bucharest, Romania, 2014