Ukrainian Film Blindfold Wins at Warsaw Film Festival

It outperformed 15 competitors.

The film Blindfold by Ukrainian director Taras Dron won at the Warsaw Film Festival. This was reported on the film's official page on Facebook.

The film was named the best of the 15 films in the Competition 1-2 for first and second features at the Warsaw Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. Director Taras Dron and producer Valeriya Sochyvets attended the awards ceremony in Warsaw. The director received a prize of 10,000 zlotys.

Taras Dron and Valeriya Sochyvets
Creators of the film

We thank everyone who believed and didn't believe in our project. This is a big step both for us and for Ukrainian cinema as a whole. Four screenings of our film took place in Warsaw. The Q & A after the screening lasted more than 30 minutes, and even after it ended, the audience did not want to let the filmmakers go. So we continued the conversation outside the auditorium. We thank both the viewers and the jury members who noted our film.

The events of the film Blindfold take place in modern Ukraine after the end of the war, its creators report. The main character, Yulia — a young no-holds-barred fighter who lost her fiancé in the war. She quits sports and starts a new relationship to free herself from the role of a war hero's widow that society imposes on her.