THE WILD FIELDS – UKRAINIAN FILM DAYS IN TORONTO 2019

http://ukraine-tiff.org/
Ukraine, 2018 / 120 minutes / Drama
Director: Yaroslav Lodygin
Cast: Oleg Moskalenko, Volodymyr Yamnenko, Oleksiy Gorbunov
– Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound Design, Ukrainian Film Academy Awards, 2019
Herman returns to his small hometown in Donbas only to find that his older brother has disappeared, leaving him to fight to save the family business, an old gas station. A story of childhood friendships and burgeoning love, it tells of the struggle against those unlawfully taking control of local plots of land to turn them into cornfields and railways that lead nowhere. Where will this journey end?
In the presence of the screenwriter and producer, Q&A