| The Forgotten | |
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| Directed by | Daria Onishchenko |
| Written by | Claudia Lehmann Daria Onyshchenko |
| Produced by | Dmytro Kozhema Claudia Lehmann Igor Savychenko |
| Cinematography | Erol Zubcevic |
| Edited by | Simon Gutknecht |
| Music by | Martin Skalsky |
| Distributed by | Arthouse traffic |
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| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Language | Ukrainian |
The Forgotten (Ukrainian: Забуті, romanized: Zabuti) is a Ukrainian-Swiss co-production drama directed by Daria Onishchenko in 2019. The film tells the story of a thirty-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, Nina, who lives in Luhansk, occupied during the Russian-Ukrainian war, and who, due to the ban on the Ukrainian language by the Russian occupation authorities, is forced to retrain from a Ukrainian language teacher to a Russian language teacher, and at the same time struggle with internal experiences and feelings due to a sudden outbreak of love between her and a local seventeen-year-old boy.
The world premiere of the film took place on October 12, 2019, at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival as part of the competition program "1-2" ("Competition of the first and second feature films of young directors"), where the film received a special mention from the jury. The film was presented in Ukraine on August 22, 2020, as part of the non-competitive program of the 49th Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist". The film was released in Ukrainian limited rental on September 3, 2020, and is distributed by Arthouse traffic.
See also
References
- Zwycięzcy 35 Warszawskiego Festiwalu Filmowego.
- Забуті. arthousetraffic.com/ua/, 2020
External links
- The Forgotten at IMDb
- The Forgotten at SwissFilms
- Directory Films profile