Director

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  로만 번데쵸크Roman Bondarchuk

  Euromaidan. Rough cut (2014)Café Voyage (2013)Radunytsia (2010)The taxi-driver (2005) When I fi¬rst met the mayor of this village and the sheriff s, I was totally fascinated: in a country where everything was corrupt, authorities not working properly, and the police never around, the people were not complaining, but found an alternative way to arrange their life. I immediately started following them with my camera and discovered another universe with its own morality, beliefs and fears, sometimes absurd but very human.Then I realized that life in the village is full of paradoxes but it reflects all the events in my country, on a smaller scale. There is a pro-Russian separatist living in the village, all the time competing with the mayor for power. Villagers are afraid of war, but draft the locals to fi¬ght in the war. And they band together to collect food and goods for the Ukrainian army. They are trying to deal with the new reality on their own, like all Ukrainians do now.Following recent political events in Ukraine and personal stories of the sheriff s, I made a very honest ¬lm. I would love to call it a tragic documentary comedy.​