Photophobia / Svetloplachosť
Golden Kingfisher – Documentary Films Competition
2023 Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ukraine 71 min. Language: Ukrainian Subtitle: Czech, English
SCREENINGS
About 1,500 people are taking shelter from bombing in the Kharkiv metro. Among them is little Nikita, who lives his own story here. His imagination transforms the metro claustrophobic spaces into playgrounds, and under the ruined streets, first loves as well as ordinary moments of humanity are born that take on a new dimension in times of war. Photophobia manages to artfully balance on the line between fiction and documentary. The Slovak representative for the Oscars won the Best Documentary award at the Warsaw IFF and the Czech Joy award at the Ji.hlava festival.
DIRECTED BY Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
CAST Nikita Tiščenko, Viktorija Mac, Jana Jevdokimova, Jevgenij Boršč, Anna Tiščenko, Vitalij Pavlovič, Volodimirovna Syrbu
CINEMATOGRAPHY Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
SOUND Jakub Jurásek, Dušan Kozák
PRODUCERS Ivan Ostrochovský (Punkchart films), Katarína Tomková (Punkchart films), Albert Malinovský (Punkchart films), Tomáš Michálek (Cinémotif Films), Kristýna Michálek Květová (Cinémotif Films)
SCREENPLAY Marek Leščák, Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
EDITING Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík, Martin Piga
MUSIC Roman Kurhan, Michal Novinski
CO-PRODUCER Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska, Arthouse Traffic, Česká televize, partizanfilm
