After missing his flight home, 27-year-old Sasha gets stranded in a Turkish seaside town without cash or mobile connection. When he crosses paths with Sashka, a beautiful, restless runaway girl, his frantic search for Wi-Fi draws them into an unexpected adventure.
Festivals
World premiere, international and national competition
49th Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival*
Award Winner: Housen Short Film Award
17th Osaka Asian Film Festival
Jury Special Mention
45th Grenzland-Filmtage International Film Festival (Germany)
Jury Special Mention
71st Montecatini International Short Film Festival (Italy)
Nominee: Best International Film
27th Portobello Film Festival (UK)
Also screened at: 17th KINOLITOPYS International Film Festival (Ukraine) – Best Camera Work in Student Film · 6th Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival** (UK) · 17th Early Bird International Student Film Festival (Bulgaria) · 8th Uşak International Short Film Festival (Turkey) · 22nd Sopot Film Festival (Poland) · 6th Ukraïna! Film Festival (Poland) · Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival (Georgia) · 9th Korona Karpat (Ukraine) · 4:3 International Short Film Festival (Ukraine) · 21st CINEMAFORUM (Poland) · 15th Kameralne Lato (Poland) · 9th WAMA Film Festival (Poland) and 25 other festivals and screenings with 6 more awards and special mentions.
Released on MEGOGO, the largest streaming service in Eastern Europe (2022–2024, over 100,000 viewers). Broadcast on Volia TV (Ukraine, 2022) and TVL – Canale 11 (Tuscany, Italy, 2020).
* FIAPF-accredited and BAFTA-qualifying.
** BIFA-qualifying.
** BIFA-qualifying.
“This film shows what Ukrainian cinema can be. It doesn’t have to be something poetic or sad.”
– Kornii Hrytsiuk, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker
Credits
Writer, Director & Producer
Eugene Koshin
Co-Producer
Orest Borko
Starring
Kostiantyn Temliak, Sasha Bystrzhitskaya, Kateryna Molchanova
Director of Photography
Nikita Khatsarevich
Production Designer
Kira Perepelytsia
Editor
Kateryna Zabulonska
Composer
Maxim Smogol
Sound Designer
Oleksii Leliukh
Production Company
BO Cinema
Press
The Asahi Shimbun – Review of the Osaka Asian Film Festival (Japanese, 2022)
Cinemagical – Interview with the OAFF programming director Sozo Teruoka (Japanese, 2022)
LIGA.net – 20 films and series of 2020 recommended by filmmakers (Ukrainian, 2020)
Radio Svoboda – “I could have bought a flat instead of making a film” (Ukrainian, 2020)
Ne Bez Pytan – Interview at the 49th Molodist (Ukrainian and Russian, 2020)
Detector Media – Review of the Molodist National Competition (Ukrainian, 2020)
Moviegram – 97 Ukrainian short films on streaming platforms (Ukrainian, 2023)
