Boy of War
Category: Documentary Feature
Length: 79:00 minutes
Director: Cyprien Clément-Delmas, Igor Kosenko
Producer: Fabian Driehorst
Co-Producer: Veronika Kührová, Michal Kráčmer
Cinematographer: Ivan Castiñeiras
Editor: Martin Reimers, Oscar Loeser
Sound Design: Sandra Klouzová
Sound Engineer: Andrii Nidzelskyi
Music: Matouš Hejl
Co-Production: Analgog Vision (Czech Republic)
Funding: FFA, BKM, Jihlava Film Fund
Partners: UPP, Soundsquare
Distributor: Fabian&Fred
Countries: Germany, Czech Republic
Awards:
Special Mention & Student Jury Award, Jihalava International Documentary Festival
VFF Documentary Production Award – DOK.fest München
Festivals:
Molodist International Film Festival, Ukraine 2020
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival 2019
Kolkata International Film Festival 2019
Beldocs International Documentary Festival 2019
DOK.fest München 2019
Finale Plzen Film Festival 2019
Jihalava International Documentary Festival 2018
Press:
Berliner Zeitung
Variety
ZDF
Artiom is 18 years old and has just one wish: to go to war and fight for his homeland, Ukraine. Everything else comes second. He dresses in camouflage, watches war videos online, and in his free time practices battle scenes with his friends. Or at least they think they are battle scenes. As a child, he only sees the surface of the war. And he has the bad luck that the fighting rages so tantalizingly close. This observational documentary studies the cult of war in a post-Soviet setting where those who succumb to the allure of battle are the least suitable and least predisposed to fighting – a fact perfectly illustrated by Artiom’s final struggle with the reality of war.