Ten minutes to escape your father's idea of happiness. Good luck.
Olena is 39 and in love with Roman, a young fitness trainer. The couple has already rented an apartment. Olena is pregnant with her third child and dreams of getting married, but how can she tell her father, who is used to controlling her entire life and sincerely believes that he knows best how "his Lenochka should be happy"? Based on the short story of the same name by Olena Andreichikova.
Acting
Tregubova's face holds ten years of swallowed words.
Direction
Shmelyova packs a feature's worth of family dynamics into tenMinutes.
Writing
Andreichikova's dialogue cuts like passive-aggressive dinner conversation.
Director
Nadiia Shmelyova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-Soviet Ukrainian cinema increasingly explores 'delayed adulthood'—adults still financially and emotionally tethered to parents in cramped multi-generational homes.
Director Shmelyova expanded this from a three-page story by keeping the runtime aggressively short—refusing the audience catharsis through duration.
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