Volodymyr Yatsenko ("Reflection", "Atlantis") is currently in Cannes Film Festival films, and as part of the European film promotion producer, he unveiled feature films of some of the most exciting talents in the Ukrainian film industry.
"Although war-related chaos is all about war, we are still working on making quality films," the producer told the producer. type.
Yatsenko is ending post-production for Valentyn Vasyanovych’s latest work, whose last film, Reflection (pictured) competes for the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
"To win!" is a dystopian story in post-war Ukraine, a frustrating film director who strives to make the most of his life after being deprived of his chance to pursue his filmmaking career. With alienated from his wife and daughter, they have been living in Vienna and are reluctant to return to the war-torn country, the director tries to get out of date for his own tough times and life will return to normal.
The film was co-produced by Yatsenko's Forefilms (Ukraine), Arsenal Films (Ukraine) and M-Films (Lithuania), and is supported by the Solidarity Fund of the European Ukrainian Film, European Image and Lithuanian Film Fund.
Yatsenko pointed out that “Victory!” sold for about 400,000 euros ($446,000), without any support from the Ukrainian government, which almost stopped cultural funding during the war with Russia. Seven of the film’s eight crew members (including Vasyanovych) play themselves in the film. "After the premiere of his last film, Reflection, and in the main competition in Venice, we expect this movie to have an exciting holiday career," Yatsenko said.
The producers are also busy raising funds for "Screaming Girls", a buzzing, English-language debut by director Antonio Lukich, who won the highest award in the Berlin agency co-production market in 2024. Karlovy was different in 2019.
"The Screaming Girl" follows a young woman who finds herself in Ireland after the Ukrainian invasion, where she pursues her dream of becoming an actress. But she begins to experience strange and fantastic events that ruin her life and prompt her to rebuild from scratch.
Jessie Fisk, an Irish producer at Feline Films, has also been featured in the project, which has also received development support from Screen Ireland, as well as development and production support from the European Ukrainian Film Solidarity Foundation. Yatsenko is seeking a third country co-producer and plans to shoot in Ireland next year.
Meanwhile, his sophomore film Tragedy developed his original script in his original script after the premiere of Toronto last fall in Toronto. After Ukraine won the victory in the war with Russia, the film was set in the near future, following a philosophy professor who grieved his wife's death, whose life was turned upside down when the ancient Greek god returned to Earth.
"U is the universe", which has won more than a dozen international awards, sold by real colors to the United States, Canada, France, German-speaking territories, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovakia, Brazil and Indonesia.
Finally, Yatsenko is developing director Nariman Aliev's debut "Homeward" in 2019, with some perspectives at the Cannes Film Festival UN. "Ortalan" is a World War II drama, a drama from World War II that follows a young boy searching for his family and after the entire Crimean Tatar was expelled from his homeland.
PIC has received development support from the European Ukrainian Film Solidarity Fund and received production funds from Ukraine before the war. Patrice Nezan from Les Contes Modernes has joined the film as a French co-producer.