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children & youth
politics
society
Ukraine
Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark
2022
79min
Ukrainian, Russian
Hungarian Premiere
International Competition
Director
Olha Zhurba
Producer: 
Darya Bassel
Viktoria Khomenko
Co-producer: 
Anne Köhncke
Monica Hellström
Willem Baptist
Nienke Korthof
Editor: 
Olha Zhurba
Writer: 
Olha Zhurba
Cinematographer: 
Volodymyr Usyk
Sound: 
Vasyl Yavtushenko
Ranko Paukovic
Music: 
Cedric Elisabeth
Yaroslav Tatarchenko
Production info: 
Moon Man
Distribution info: 
Deckert Distribution Hanne Biermann hanne@deckert-distribution.com
Festivals and Awards: 
CPH:DOX 2022 DOX:AWARD Nominee

It’s 2014 and 13-year-old Roma joins the revolution by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in the streets of Kyiv. Beneath the camouflage uniform and sunglasses hides a lonely orphan. Five years later, Roma is a young man with nothing but a lighter and a knife in his pockets. Through phone conversations with filmmaker Olha Zhurba, and seven years of footage of Roma drifting through life, the story of a rootless boy and a scattered family takes shape. Standing on the brink of adulthood, can Roma finally take control of his life?

Director

Olha Zhurba directs and edits documentary and fiction films, commercials, and music videos. She graduated from the I. Karpenko-Karogo National University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kiev in 2010, with a degree from the Department of Cinema Documentary Directing.