Original title: Pereshkoda

Copyright: Educational Cinema, Kyiv, 2010

Format: short feature

Carrier: DVD

Color: black-and-white

Length: 9 min.

Original language: Ukrainian with some Russian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Written and directed by: Maksim Neafit Buinitski

Cinematographer: Artem Ryzhykov

Composer: Maksym Shorenkov

Art design: Fedir Aleksandrovych

Sound: Maria Masterova

Costume and credits designer: Oksana Piskalenko

Editor: Olena Zolotukhina

Film cast

Yelyzaveta Maksymova, Oleksii Syvatsky, Antin Mrynsky

Synopsis

Based on the eponymous story by the children’s writer Daniil Kharms this mesmerizingly atmospheric short is about children who play ominously adult games. A strange mixture of eroticism, terror, innocence and fantasy it echoes events murderous Soviet past. Belarusian Maksim Buinitski is a student at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Cinema, Theater, and Television (Kyiv, Ukraine) and insists that he is making Ukrainian national cinema. This is his first directorial work. It reveals a talent and vision that are bound to impress.