Tvp, Poland’s largest broadcaster, announced two series topping its MipTV slate: comedy-drama “We Shall Live Together” and period drama “Matylda.”
The six-episode “We Shall Live Together” is the first series produced in Poland that is set during the Russian-Ukraine war. In the series, Polish couple Basia and Tadeusz, who live in the mansion of Basia’s wealthy mother Magda, bring two Ukrainian refugees to live with them, turning their world upside-down. Although Magda reluctantly welcomes the guests, this unexpected situation creates numerous comedic but also touching moments. Tvp notes thatt he series focuses on the consequences of war in ordinary peoples’ lives.
“We Shall Live Together” stars Lena Góra and Oksana Czerkaszyna. Anna Maliszewska and Tadeusz Łysiak direct.
The 13-episode “Matylda” tells the story of a young rebel, the daughter of a participant in Poland’s 1863 January Uprising. The action takes place in the Lublin region dozens of years after the Uprising.
The six-episode “We Shall Live Together” is the first series produced in Poland that is set during the Russian-Ukraine war. In the series, Polish couple Basia and Tadeusz, who live in the mansion of Basia’s wealthy mother Magda, bring two Ukrainian refugees to live with them, turning their world upside-down. Although Magda reluctantly welcomes the guests, this unexpected situation creates numerous comedic but also touching moments. Tvp notes thatt he series focuses on the consequences of war in ordinary peoples’ lives.
“We Shall Live Together” stars Lena Góra and Oksana Czerkaszyna. Anna Maliszewska and Tadeusz Łysiak direct.
The 13-episode “Matylda” tells the story of a young rebel, the daughter of a participant in Poland’s 1863 January Uprising. The action takes place in the Lublin region dozens of years after the Uprising.
- 3/12/2024
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
Festivals past are populating a busy specialty market this weekend with films from Sundance and Venice. Sony Pictures Classics is giving Randall Park’s Shortcomings a substantial 400+ screen release. See Deadline review. Mubi is out with Passages in New York and LA – both premiered to critical acclaim in Park City.
There’s been some drama around the latter after the MPA gave the Ira Sachs film an Nc-17 rating, which Mubi “officially rejected.” The distributor/streamer/producer said it “remains committed to releasing Passages nationwide in its original version as the filmmaker intended, with our full backing, unrated and uncut.” Rates a 94% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Deadline review here.
Casey Affleck and Noah Jupe-starring Dreamin’ Wild from Roadside Attractions on 400 screens follows the life of singer-musician brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson. Deadline review. Magnolia’s A Compassionate Spy, coming in the wake of blockbuster Oppenheimer, is an espionage...
There’s been some drama around the latter after the MPA gave the Ira Sachs film an Nc-17 rating, which Mubi “officially rejected.” The distributor/streamer/producer said it “remains committed to releasing Passages nationwide in its original version as the filmmaker intended, with our full backing, unrated and uncut.” Rates a 94% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Deadline review here.
Casey Affleck and Noah Jupe-starring Dreamin’ Wild from Roadside Attractions on 400 screens follows the life of singer-musician brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson. Deadline review. Magnolia’s A Compassionate Spy, coming in the wake of blockbuster Oppenheimer, is an espionage...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The war in Ukraine has lasted for 18 months, with no signs of stopping. But for those living in parts of the country where the battles have been the fiercest, it’s been going on for much longer — more than 9 years, in fact, starting in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea, with separatist forces taking over swaths of the Donbas region in the east.
Director Maryna Er Gorbach’s unsettling and aesthetically gripping fourth feature, Klondike, revisits that harrowing period in recent Ukrainian history from the viewpoint of an expectant couple, Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) and Tolik (the late Sergiy Shadrin), living in the rural enclave of Hrabove as the nascent war surrounds them on all sides.
If the name Hrabove rings a bell, that’s because the village made world news in July 2014 when a Malaysian airliner tragically crashed there after being shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missle. That disaster looms large over Klondike,...
Director Maryna Er Gorbach’s unsettling and aesthetically gripping fourth feature, Klondike, revisits that harrowing period in recent Ukrainian history from the viewpoint of an expectant couple, Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) and Tolik (the late Sergiy Shadrin), living in the rural enclave of Hrabove as the nascent war surrounds them on all sides.
If the name Hrabove rings a bell, that’s because the village made world news in July 2014 when a Malaysian airliner tragically crashed there after being shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft missle. That disaster looms large over Klondike,...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If nothing else, Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach’s first solo-helmed feature Klondike can be credited with uncanny timing. A vivid look at an ordinary farming family in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, who just happen to have a full wall of their home destroyed by an errant missile, its European premiere at the 2022 Berlinale was followed only days later by Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country, which of course continues unabated. It would be one of the last Ukrainian features to conclude production before the war broke out, a prophetic missive from a country that has stunned the world with its resilience in the face of crisis.
Er Gorbach, who’s based in Istanbul and previously co-directed several features with her spouse Mehmet Bahadir Er, reveals herself as a filmmaker able to conjure an imposing sense of scale, and creditably evoke with massive props (and some post-production...
Er Gorbach, who’s based in Istanbul and previously co-directed several features with her spouse Mehmet Bahadir Er, reveals herself as a filmmaker able to conjure an imposing sense of scale, and creditably evoke with massive props (and some post-production...
- 8/3/2023
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
"Did you see who shot down the plane?" Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for an acclaimed Ukrainian film titled Klondike, from filmmaker Maryna Er Gorbach. This premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival just weeks before Russia attacked Ukraine in the war that started last year. It's actually set in 2014 in another part of Ukraine, called the Donetsk Region, where the Donbas war was already underway. The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia & Ukraine during the start of the Donbas war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they will be at the center of the air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down by Russian forces. This film really stunned me, it's incredible, a powerful story told with such grace with outstanding cinematography. Starring Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the most acclaimed titles from last year’s Sundance Fim Festival, where it picked up the top directing awards in its World Cinema Dramatic section, Maryna Er Gorbach’s Klondike premiered just weeks before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Set in 2014, Ukraine’s Oscar entry for International Feature follows a pair of expectant parents living in eastern Ukraine near the start of the Donbas war. After an international air-crash catastrophe elevates the tension enveloping them, pregnant Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) refuses to be evacuated and leave her home, even as their village is captured by armed forces. Ahead of an August 4 theatrical release from Samuel Goldwyn Films, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the U.S. trailer and poster.
Here’s the synopsis: “July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war.
Here’s the synopsis: “July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, disputed territory in the early days of the Donbas war.
- 6/20/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
That’s a wrap on the 34th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival.
The desert fest rolled its credits Sunday by announcing this year’s slate of award winners, including jury prizes and audience awards. Taking top honors — the Fipresci Prize as voted on by a special jury of international film critics who reviewed 35 of 93 official submission for the Academy Awards international feature film category — was Alice Diop’s legal drama Saint Omer.
The jury praised the French film for how it interrogates issues of society, culture, race and gender. “By harnessing the skills of her technical team, Diop turns Saint Omer into a shrewd, cogent, ambitious and overwhelming film which teases a metafictional awareness while remaining clear-eyed and unsentimental,” the jury said in a statement.
Other Fipresci Prizes went to screenwriters Carla Simón and Arnau Vilaró for Alcarràs for international screenplay (Spain), Oksana Cherkashyna from Klondike for best actress...
The desert fest rolled its credits Sunday by announcing this year’s slate of award winners, including jury prizes and audience awards. Taking top honors — the Fipresci Prize as voted on by a special jury of international film critics who reviewed 35 of 93 official submission for the Academy Awards international feature film category — was Alice Diop’s legal drama Saint Omer.
The jury praised the French film for how it interrogates issues of society, culture, race and gender. “By harnessing the skills of her technical team, Diop turns Saint Omer into a shrewd, cogent, ambitious and overwhelming film which teases a metafictional awareness while remaining clear-eyed and unsentimental,” the jury said in a statement.
Other Fipresci Prizes went to screenwriters Carla Simón and Arnau Vilaró for Alcarràs for international screenplay (Spain), Oksana Cherkashyna from Klondike for best actress...
- 1/16/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Saint Omer,’ ‘Joyland’ and ‘Alcarràs’ Among Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Winners
The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced winners for this year’s event, with “Saint Omer,” the charged courtroom drama that is the French selection for this year’s Oscars, taking the top prize for International Feature.
Oscar-qualifying films were celebrated at the high-profile yearly festival, with 134 films having been screened from 64 countries. In addition to the “Saint Omer” win, acting honors went to Ali Junejo from “Joyland,” Pakistan’s LGBTQ+-centered official entry, and Oksana Cherkashyna for the war drama “Klondike” from Ukraine. Mubi’s acclaimed drama “Alcarràs” claimed the screenwriting award and the documentary award went to the Canadian rape justice feature “To Kill a Tiger.”
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Fipresci Prize for Best International Feature Film of...
Oscar-qualifying films were celebrated at the high-profile yearly festival, with 134 films having been screened from 64 countries. In addition to the “Saint Omer” win, acting honors went to Ali Junejo from “Joyland,” Pakistan’s LGBTQ+-centered official entry, and Oksana Cherkashyna for the war drama “Klondike” from Ukraine. Mubi’s acclaimed drama “Alcarràs” claimed the screenwriting award and the documentary award went to the Canadian rape justice feature “To Kill a Tiger.”
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Below is a list of all of the jury winners from the Palm Springs International Film Festival:
Fipresci Prize for Best International Feature Film of...
- 1/16/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced the juried winners of the 34th edition Sunday, with “Saint Omer,” directed by Alice Diop, receiving the Fipresci prize for foreign film from the jury of international film critics. The courtroom drama is France’s Oscar submission. “To Kill a Tiger” took the documentary award, while “The Damned Don’t Cry” was awarded the New Voices New Visions award.
The Fipresci jury statement for “Saint Omer” said, “Alice Diop, as screenwriter and director, delivers a film that explores different dynamics of Black women in contemporary France, drawing empathetic lead performances from Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanga.”
The jury said of “To Kill a Tiger,” directed by Nisha Pahuja, “The filmmakers sensitivity to the subjects’ experience and their poignant capture of shifting tones is a superb use of the genre, resulting in a remarkable story profiling an enduring father-daughter bond exemplifying a social evolution.
The Fipresci jury statement for “Saint Omer” said, “Alice Diop, as screenwriter and director, delivers a film that explores different dynamics of Black women in contemporary France, drawing empathetic lead performances from Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanga.”
The jury said of “To Kill a Tiger,” directed by Nisha Pahuja, “The filmmakers sensitivity to the subjects’ experience and their poignant capture of shifting tones is a superb use of the genre, resulting in a remarkable story profiling an enduring father-daughter bond exemplifying a social evolution.
- 1/16/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
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By Nov. 18, when a Dutch court found three men, two of them Russian and one Ukrainian, guilty of murder in absentia for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the event had almost vanished from public memory. The court found that on July 17, 2014, a Russian-made missile supplied from Russia and fired by an armed group under Russian control in eastern Ukraine brought down the civilian flight, killing all 298 people on board, including 80 children.
Maryna Er Gorbach hadn’t forgotten. July 17, 2014, was Er Gorbach’s 33rd birthday, and the fateful day when the passenger airline was shot down over the occupied Donbas region is the starting point for her latest film, Klondike, Ukraine’s contender for the 2022 best international feature film Oscar.
“We all remember what happened on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia started its full-scale war on Ukraine, but who talks about the Malaysian Air catastrophe?” says Er Gorbach.
By Nov. 18, when a Dutch court found three men, two of them Russian and one Ukrainian, guilty of murder in absentia for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the event had almost vanished from public memory. The court found that on July 17, 2014, a Russian-made missile supplied from Russia and fired by an armed group under Russian control in eastern Ukraine brought down the civilian flight, killing all 298 people on board, including 80 children.
Maryna Er Gorbach hadn’t forgotten. July 17, 2014, was Er Gorbach’s 33rd birthday, and the fateful day when the passenger airline was shot down over the occupied Donbas region is the starting point for her latest film, Klondike, Ukraine’s contender for the 2022 best international feature film Oscar.
“We all remember what happened on Feb. 24, 2022, when Russia started its full-scale war on Ukraine, but who talks about the Malaysian Air catastrophe?” says Er Gorbach.
- 12/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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In yet another example of courage under fire from the citizens of Ukraine, the country’s film critics have managed to hold the country’s first post-war awards ceremony. The Ukrainian National Film Critics association handed out its Kinokolo Awards Thursday night, broadcasting the ceremony from a bunker studio in Kyiv. The event was carried on national public TV channel Suspilne Kultura.
Pamfir from director Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk was the night’s big winner, taking home best film, best director and best screenwriter honors, as well the discovery of the year prize for the best full-length debut. Pamfir star Oleksandr Yatsentyuk also took best actor for his performance in the film as a man who returns to Ukraine from abroad and gets drawn into his criminal past. Pamfir premiered in Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight.
‘Pamfir’
Maryna Er Gorbach’s war drama Klondike, which debuted at Sundance this year,...
In yet another example of courage under fire from the citizens of Ukraine, the country’s film critics have managed to hold the country’s first post-war awards ceremony. The Ukrainian National Film Critics association handed out its Kinokolo Awards Thursday night, broadcasting the ceremony from a bunker studio in Kyiv. The event was carried on national public TV channel Suspilne Kultura.
Pamfir from director Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk was the night’s big winner, taking home best film, best director and best screenwriter honors, as well the discovery of the year prize for the best full-length debut. Pamfir star Oleksandr Yatsentyuk also took best actor for his performance in the film as a man who returns to Ukraine from abroad and gets drawn into his criminal past. Pamfir premiered in Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight.
‘Pamfir’
Maryna Er Gorbach’s war drama Klondike, which debuted at Sundance this year,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In yet another sign of the continued resilience and determination of the Ukrainian people, the fifth edition of the Ukrainian National Film Critics Circle Award, dubbed Kinokolo, pressed ahead with its ceremony on Thursday, in spite of an ongoing war in the country.
The ceremony was held in a bunker in Kyiv and broadcasted live on national public TV channel Suspilne Kultura from the underground studio, remarkably just days after Russian airstrikes targeted key infrastructure in the capital city and destroyed 30 of the country’s power stations, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Local film critics recognized projects such as Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight title Pamfir, Maryna Er Horbach’s Klondike and Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Are you Ok?
Pamfir, a drama about a man who faces small town corruption in Western Ukraine after returning from working abroad, came away with the most awards, nabbing Best Feature Film and...
The ceremony was held in a bunker in Kyiv and broadcasted live on national public TV channel Suspilne Kultura from the underground studio, remarkably just days after Russian airstrikes targeted key infrastructure in the capital city and destroyed 30 of the country’s power stations, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Local film critics recognized projects such as Dmytro Sukholytkyi-Sobchuk’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight title Pamfir, Maryna Er Horbach’s Klondike and Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Are you Ok?
Pamfir, a drama about a man who faces small town corruption in Western Ukraine after returning from working abroad, came away with the most awards, nabbing Best Feature Film and...
- 10/21/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Three men from the film team are fighting in Ukraine’s defence forces.
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach is presenting her film Klondike at Sarajevo Film Festival alongside women who worked on the film, while several men from the production are fighting in the country’s defence forces against the Russian invasion.
Producer, cinematographer and Gorbach’s creative partner Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy - ‘Slava’ - has been fighting for his country since the early days of the invasion in February; as have actors Oleg Shcherbina and Oleg Shevchuk.
The trio are in different regiments of the Ukrainian forces, and have avoided physical injury.
Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach is presenting her film Klondike at Sarajevo Film Festival alongside women who worked on the film, while several men from the production are fighting in the country’s defence forces against the Russian invasion.
Producer, cinematographer and Gorbach’s creative partner Svyatoslav Bulakovskiy - ‘Slava’ - has been fighting for his country since the early days of the invasion in February; as have actors Oleg Shcherbina and Oleg Shevchuk.
The trio are in different regiments of the Ukrainian forces, and have avoided physical injury.
- 8/19/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
This review contains spoilers.
In light of the recent events in Ukraine, interest in “Klondike” seems to have spiked. The international Turkish-Ukrainian first premiered at Sundance this year, has been acquired by Mubi, and has since been making its rounds to other US film festivals. Most recently, Maryna Er Gorbach’s third feature met packed audiences at Sffilm last week. Little wonder, too – the film meditates upon the long-incoming tensions between Russia and Ukraine at the eastern borderlands in Donetsk.
“Klondike” takes place in July 2014 during the War in Donbas. Here, seven-months-pregnant Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) lives an isolated life with her husband, Tolik (Serhi Shadrin) in the disputed territory of Donetsk. Their peace is precarious, however. It seems like everyone beyond the farm expects them to take sides while destroying Irka and Tolik’s land. Separatist friends drop by between explosions, expecting Tolik to join the movement. Irka’s nationalist...
In light of the recent events in Ukraine, interest in “Klondike” seems to have spiked. The international Turkish-Ukrainian first premiered at Sundance this year, has been acquired by Mubi, and has since been making its rounds to other US film festivals. Most recently, Maryna Er Gorbach’s third feature met packed audiences at Sffilm last week. Little wonder, too – the film meditates upon the long-incoming tensions between Russia and Ukraine at the eastern borderlands in Donetsk.
“Klondike” takes place in July 2014 during the War in Donbas. Here, seven-months-pregnant Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) lives an isolated life with her husband, Tolik (Serhi Shadrin) in the disputed territory of Donetsk. Their peace is precarious, however. It seems like everyone beyond the farm expects them to take sides while destroying Irka and Tolik’s land. Separatist friends drop by between explosions, expecting Tolik to join the movement. Irka’s nationalist...
- 5/4/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
With talk of potential war in Ukraine back in the nightly news as of February 2022, the arrival of Maryna Er Gorbach's drama set in the shadow of the 2014 conflict in the Donbas region, which deservedly took home the directing prize in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance, is particularly timely.
Her film is all about the constant threat of conflict in the middle distance and the way that it can split the lives of those going about their everyday business without warning - just like the Malaysian Airlines plane that crashes out of the sky on July 17, 2014, the smoke from which can be seen rising towards the horizon from the farmhouse the heavily pregnant Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) shares with her husband Tolik (Serhi Shadrin), a piece of fuselage even closer to hand. Although, at first glance their home seems to be in the middle of nowhere,...
Her film is all about the constant threat of conflict in the middle distance and the way that it can split the lives of those going about their everyday business without warning - just like the Malaysian Airlines plane that crashes out of the sky on July 17, 2014, the smoke from which can be seen rising towards the horizon from the farmhouse the heavily pregnant Irka (Oksana Cherkashyna) shares with her husband Tolik (Serhi Shadrin), a piece of fuselage even closer to hand. Although, at first glance their home seems to be in the middle of nowhere,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Klondike is a funny title for this harrowing, at times absurdist Ukrainian war drama, set as conflict with Russia began to spike in 2014. Referring as it does to the Klondike Gold Rush (the setting for Chaplin’s famous silent comedy), we could expect the resonance of two historical events to overlap, or at least sense a link between the actual subject and the analogy. But any gold in the grey expanse of the febrile Donbas region, where Klondike‘s set, is nary to be found: the landscape seems only dotted with cows and convoys of surface-to-air missiles. Perhaps it’s just a red herring designed to mock the idea of attributing meaning, which is what the shellshocked or aggressive characters in this film are also scrabbling to do, to no avail.
What’s also refreshing about Klondike is how it depicts war in a manner modern filmmakers seem more cautious about now.
What’s also refreshing about Klondike is how it depicts war in a manner modern filmmakers seem more cautious about now.
- 1/24/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
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