Honeymoon

Medovyi Misiats

TIFF65: Greek Premiere
February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras (35) and Olia (32) spend their first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they wake up to the sound of explosions. They fail to leave the town on time, meanwhile, the Russian troops set up headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, or mobile connection. For the next five days, Taras and Olia will explore the black abyss of real intimacy between two people and face crucial existential questions in mortal danger. One of the few fiction films conceived and completed in Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion, it narrates a story about the raptures of history and the ruptures of life, born out of love and necessity. In the filmmaker's words: "Setting the film in Ukraine was also a very practical choice because a large number of Ukrainian film professionals lost their jobs due to the war or were mobilized into the army. It was our small contribution to the sustainability of the industry.”
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Zhanna Ozirna
Script: Zhanna Ozirna
Cinematography: Volodymyr Usyk
Editing: Zhanna Ozirna, Philip Sotnychenko
Sound: Serhiy Stepansky
Music: Anton Dehtiarov
Actors: Ira Nirsha, Roman Lutskyi
Production: Toy Cinema
Producers: Dmytro Sukhanov
Costumes: Asya Sutyagina
Production Design: Marharyta Kulyk
Make Up: Asya Sutyagina
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Ukraine
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 84'
Contact: REASON8 Films

Zhanna Ozirna

Zhanna Ozirna is a film director and screenwriter with five short films in her filmography. Honeymoon is her first feature film. She is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and the Directors Guild of Ukraine. She has been working as a film selector and program manager with the Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art since 2014 and with the International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival Linoleum since 2019.

Filmography

2016 Encounter (short)
2017 Grace (short)
2018 Bond (short doc)
2019 The Adult (short)
2024 Honeymoon