• DRIVING LESSONS

    Directed by Anastasiya Gruba
    Ukraine | 18 minutes | U.S. Premiere | FATHER FIGURES

Wartime Kyiv, Ukraine. A father teaches his daughter how to drive. The driving lesson ceases to be ordinary when the father is issued a summons at a checkpoint.

film details

Director: Anastasiya Gruba
Producers: Mira Oyetoro, Denys Satanovskyi, Viktor Shevchenko, Sabina Asadova, Valeria Sochyvets
Screenwriter: Anastasiya Gruba
Cinematographers: Oleksandra Pletenetska
Editor: Philip Sotnychenko
Cast: Angelina Samchyk, Kostyantyn Danylyuk
Original Language Title: Uroky vodinnya
Country: Ukraine
Language: in Ukrainian with English subtitles
Year: 2024
Running Time: 18 minutes
Premiere Status: U.S. Premiere
Primary Company: Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema, Salt Cinema, Packgauz production
Contact Email: saltcinema.info@gmail.com
Website: https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/driving-lessons-2024

director biography

"Anastasiya Gruba is a Ukrainian screenwriter and director from Kyiv. She is a participant of the NGO Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema. Her short film project ""Ice Hole"" was selected for the European Short Pitch 2020 and became a winner of the 15th competition selection of the Ukrainian State Film Agency. With her feature film project Women Suicide Season, Anastasiya participated in Munich Film Up 2021-2022, was selected for the Ukraine in Focus Pitching Session during Marché du Film 2023 and for Global Media Makers LA Residency (Film Independent, USA) 2024." "• - ""Preparation for shooting a feature film"" by Dmytro Sukholytkyy Sobchuk and Terrarium (on the example of the movie Pamfir) 2023 – 2 months • - Zhovid Directors Campus 2021: workshop of Ukrainian director Ivan Sautkin – 2 weeks • Winter Filmmaking Intensive with dir. Taras Dron 2019 – 1 week"

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