Original title: Ptakholove

Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine

Format: feature short

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 18 min.

Original language: Ukrainian with some Russian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Director: Larysa Artiuhina

Script writer: Larysa Artiuhina and Oleh Loshkarev

Cinematographer: Oleksiy Tsvilodub

Original music: Ihor Lebiodkin

Producer: Aram Hevorkian

Film cast

Olha  - Iryna Novak

Alisa - Alisa Tyshchenko

Mita - Dmytro Surzhykov

Synopsis

[in the director’s own words] "Three people live in a city. Olha is a theater actress – beautiful, intelligent, purpose-driven. After a failed marriage it seems she finally meets a man of her dream. But successful director Oleksiy turns out to be just an episode in her life. Not even her six-year old daughter Alisa, the person closest to her, can save her from loneliness. In an attempt to distract herself Olha plunges into work and her little girl is engulfed by her imaginary world, impenetrable for rational-thinking Olha.

Mitia, an inmate in a psychiatric institution, is in love with Olha. He realizes that relationship with her is impossible, so he loves her platonically, at a distance like a dream or a fragile bird, one of the many he makes of paper. Finally Mitia musters courage to approach her with his confession of love. Accidentally he witnesses Olha’s dramatic encounter with Oleksiy. Mitia calls on his avian friends to help her. And they do, in their own special manner …"