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Directed by: Olha Zhurba
Country:
Ukraine, Netherlands, Denmark
Runtime: 1hr 19min
Year: 2022
Topics:
Personal Stories
Last Screened:
Mon 7th Nov 2022
Olha Zhurba's powerful debut feature follows Roma, a street kid whom she met in 2014, aged 13, running around the front lines of Maidan Square, throwing stones and molotov cocktails.
Years later, Roma is now a young man, living on the margins of a society that hasn’t cared for him. Without finishing his education and with no home, he ends up with his loyal but criminal older brother, who is equally scarred by their shared upbringing. Through her seven years of footage of Roma’s troublemaking, drug use and drifting, along with piercingly moving phonecalls in which he reflects on his life, Zhurba tells the story of a kid on the outside.
