Ukraine
Vadim Mochalov
Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv Lyonya asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he’s secretly in love, to help with the script editing.
Vadim Mochalov entered the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts in 2019. During his studies, he created 10 short films, including the screen adaptation of Lina Kostenko's poem "Don't Put Your Hand on My Shoulder", a documentary about the LGBTQ+ community of Ukraine, HANDS, and others. In 2023, Vadym’s graduation film, THE RETURN, is about the life of a queer guy with religious trauma during the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
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