Section: MIDNIGHT MADNESS

THE GLASS HOUSE

THE GLASS HOUSE

Taras Dron
UA, 2023, 97 Min

 Wiktoria is an influential businesswoman and self-assured woman of power. When her daughter disappears, hostility, false leads and malice begin to make the rounds on social media. Driven by the power of desperation, Wiktoria sets out in search of her. A race against time, also for the sake of her own reputation, begins. A visually powerful art-house thriller.

#feature #thriller #family

Performance

2024-11-09 | 21:00
Kammerbühne

 While the police investigate all lines of enquiry, Wiktoria is certain from the start - her daughter has innocently fallen into the clutches of a network of drug dealers through her new boyfriend. Her sudden disappearance after the university entrance ceremony must have something to do with it. Wiktoria's ex-husband is not actually allowed to see his daughter anymore, and yet as a police officer and IT expert he proves helpful with Wiktoria's investigations – also on an informal basis.

The plot remains true to the rules of the genre and stringently accompanies the hunt for the perpetrators, victims and motives. It does however draw a symbolic charge from a range of varying visual motifs: reflective surfaces break, obscure, render unrecognisable or distort a frame, a lakefront in various lighting conditions repeatedly attracts attention whilst the protagonist's constantly changing, intensely coloured clothing contrasts with the often gloomy surroundings.

Text: Rainer Mende

09.11.2024 | 21:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

Produzent
Igor Savychenko, Valeria Sochyvets
Produktion
Directory Films
Taras Dron

Taras Dron - Taras Dron is a member of European Film Academy and Ukrainian FA.Taras studied in the Department of Director at the Leon Schiller National Film, Television andTheatre School (PWSFTv i T) in Lodz, Poland.After the first education at Protection of Information at the National University "Lviv Polytechnic" he started to work as an Inspector of information security in State University of Internal Affairs. In parallel he was responsible for the video archive and in that time got involved with cinematography and founded film production studio. Most his films got awards at international film festivals. One of them is the winner in 1-2 Competition at Warsaw Film Festival 2020 for film “Blindfold”. Time to time he does his own directors course workshops. Also he works on commercials and developments of TV series which are planning to be released for the next years. Currently, he has finished working on film “The Glass House”, which was shot on 35 mm filmand has already participated in various international festivals such as Cannes, Sofia, Brussels, Karlovy Vary and others. In 2023 the film had it’s world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival in the International Competition. Now, he is working on the script for his next film.

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