Captive
Ukraine, France2023fiction15'International Short Competition
Russia. On the monitors of a strip nightclub, beautiful girls dance in front of an uninterested clientele. From the radio and television come recruitment announcements for a ‘special military operation’ and the propaganda to justify it. In the drawer of Savvy's young bodyguard lies a gun. Would he be able to use it to kill someone? In the name of what? Love? Propaganda? Economical in its use of words, mesmerising in its visual and musical layers, the film does not impose an unambiguous interpretation. It allows the viewer to follow the emotions and impressions, its pulsating energy, its vision, in which reality gets mixed up with fantasy and the prize can only be a girl’s kiss.
- directed by
- Q&A guestLika Nadir
Short film director, born in the south of Ukraine in 1996, known also for making music videos, clips, and performances. She studied at the Moscow School of New Cinema, workshop by Dmitry Mamulia. Her short film "The Human Child" (2020) was presented and awarded at film festivals in the USA, England, Canada and Europe. The second short, "Captive" is based on the memories of the war crimes of Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
- cinematography
- Yaroslav Golovkin
- script
- Lika Nadir
- music
- Kirill Koryakovsky
- sound
- Remy Monti
- editing
- Remy Monti
- production
- Walid Bekhti (Malfame)
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