One girl, one candle, one veteran — five minutes that'll wreck you.
A teenage girl, a resident of the metropolis, on Holodomor Remembrance Day, decides to fight the lack of candles in the windows of high-rise buildings around her. Properly prepared, she enters the porches and places candles on all available windows. On the stairs, she encounters a man who is initially hostile to the girl's actions. After a short and sharp conversation, the ATO veteran decides to help the girl. There is a certain artistic parallel between honoring the victims of one terror - the Holodomor - and the heavy losses of modern Ukraine.
Direction
Pryduvalov's cramped porches as emotional battlefield.
Acting
Horbunov's eyes say everything the script won't.
Director
Viktor Pryduvalov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Holodomor candle tradition ('Sviacha') was heavily suppressed under Soviet rule; this short reframes it as quiet activism.
Director Pryduvalov shot in his own Kyiv apartment building; the veteran's uniform was borrowed from an actual ATO volunteer who lived upstairs.
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