Supported project
THE ELF’S ARK
- Director: Polina Kelm
- Scriptwriter: Polina Kelm
- Countries: Ukraine / Croatia / Slovenia
- Genre: Documentary
- Country of shooting: Ukraine
- Language: Ukrainian, Russian
- Duration: 90 min
SYNOPSIS
In the years before the full invasion of Ukraine, a theatre troupe in a mental health institution stage a prophetic play about salvation and liberation.
CONTACT
Ukrainian producer
Magika Films
Olha Beskhmelnitsyna
beskhmelnitsyna@gmail.com
Producer from a contributing country
Restart (Croatia)
Vanja Jambrović
vanja@restarted.hr
AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION: 40 000 €
Date of the decision : January 27th, 2025
THE DIRECTORS
Polina Kelm is a Ukrainian director and scriptwriter. She graduated from Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and TV University as a film director in 2010. Her script for The Rain won Best Script prize at the ISFF Prolog (Ukraine, 2005). The House won The Special Prize of the “Cinema” Young Cinematographers Centre at the ISFF START IV (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2007). In 2012, she played as an actress in the film Lifespan Of The Object In Frame by A. Balagura. In 2013, she wrote and directed the documentary short film Posytyv, which was nominated in several film festivals, such as DocudaysUA, Jihlava IDFF, DOK Leipzig and HotDocs.
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