Section: Feature Film Competition

Nazavzhdy-Nazavzhdy

FOREVER-FOREVER

Anna Buryachkova

UA/NL, 2023, 107 Min

Wild teenage passion in Kyiv in the late 90s. In the ruins of the Soviet regime, Tonia gets enmeshed in a complex love triangle while trying to flee from her past and ends up on a path of self-destruction.

#feature #comingofage #femalevocies

Lena Chekhaovska

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Shy Tonia is new to the school and quickly makes friends with a group of rebellious teenagers. With her charm, she captivates two classmates who couldn't be more different: Zhurik, a humorous prince charming, and Sania, a daredevil drug dealer. A dangerous love triangle unfolds between them, in which the boundaries between good and evil, right and wrong, love and obsession become blurred.

Anna Buryachkova stages a captivating homage to the generation of post-Soviet “90s kids”. Captured with raw beauty by cinematographer Lena Chekhovska. FOREVER FOREVER provides a blunt and rare insight into the complex emotional world of growing up, revealing the untamed nature of passion and gender relations and illuminating their bitter taste in a Ukraine that is so different from today.

Text: Joshua Jádi

Drehbuch
Marina Stepanska and Anna Buryachkova

Kamera
Lena Chekhovska

Ton
Mykhailo Zakutskyi, Lode Woltersom

Schnitt
Yurii Reznichenko

Musik
Lika Bugaeva

Darsteller
Alina Cheban, Zachary Shadrin

Produzent
Natalia Libet, Vitalii Sheremetiev, Oleksii Zgonik, Lyuba Knorozok

Produktion
Digital Religion (DGTL RLGN) LLC

Co-Produktion
Rinskje Raap, Reinier Selen - Rinkel Film/NL

Anna Buryachkova - Ukraine

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