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Original Film Title: Berdyans’k
Director’s Name: Tom Hopkins, Kateryna Paida
Writer’s Name: Tom Hopkins, Kateryna Paida, Sophia Lyons, Ted Endo, Jonathan Dungan
Producer: Ciaran Grace
Country of Origin: Ukraine
Country of Filming : Ireland
Language: English
Runtime: 15 minutes 33 seconds
Film Description:
Lera, a young Ukrainian refugee who has recently reached Ireland, who, fearing the worst, uses dark-web séance software (The Orb) to discover that her sister Maryna has died in the conflict back home. Through The Orb she makes contact – and discovers that her sister Maryna is disoriented and stuck in an after-death limbo, based around the beach that they went to as children. The beach is in Berdyans’k – a Sea of Azov resort currently under Russian occupation. Together, the sisters must find a way to come to terms with what has happened and find a way for both of them to move on…