ROMANCE Shorts Festival
15m
LULLABY, 4min. Ukraine
Directed by Oleksandr Shvets
Through the child’s simple questions — about fear, hunger, life, and a father at the front — the fragile world of a family is revealed, held together by love, hope, and the promise of dawn. This is a story about childhood that war could not take away its most essential right: the will to live and believe in return.
https://www.instagram.com/anna_khanina/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-lullaby
YOU ARE SPECIAL (Music video), 4min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilia Noyabrov
A little boy, fascinated by the legend that the white keys on the old Steinway piano, which "lives" in his parents' house, are made of elephant tusks, dreams every night of meeting the gray giants one day and never being separated from them…This desire grows from day to day along with the lullaby that his mother sings to him, because there are words in it: "You are special!"
https://www.instagram.com/anna_khanina/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-you-are-special-romance
THE YARD, 9min., UK
Directed by Cameron Moon
During the Christmas season a girl goes in search of a lost ornament with surprising results