The Editorial Office
Competition Asian Premiere
Ukraine/Germany/Slovakia/Czech Republic | 2024 | Ukrainian/English | 126 min | Dramedy | DCP
Synopsis
In the wild steppes of southern Ukraine, a young nature researcher named Yura is looking for an endangered species of groundhog but instead witnesses a crime. Eager to expose the truth, Yura takes his photo evidence to the local newspaper’s editorial office. However, he quickly realizes that nobody there cares about pursuing justice. While a big war is looming over the horizon, Yura’s naive worldview is splintering in a storm of fake news, rigged political elections, and mysterious cult rituals. On his quest, the hero is about to find out who he really is—an endangered species of a good man or just a loser?
Credits
| Original Title | Редакція |
| English Title | The Editorial Office |
| Country | Ukraine/Germany/Slovakia/Czech Republic |
| Exhibition Format | DCP |
| Director | Roman Bondarchuk |
| Producer | Darya Bassel |
| Screenplay | Alla Tyutyunnyk, Dar’ya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk |
| Cinematography | Vadym Ilkov |
| Cast | Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Andrii Kyrylchuk, Rymma Ziubina |
Company
Moon Man
Darya Bassel
d.bassel@moonman.com.ua
Director
Roman Bondarchuk
Ukraine
A graduate of Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television, Roman has directed short films, documentaries, music videos and the feature film Volcano (2018), which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, and won 12 awards, including the Shevchenko National Prize, the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and the arts. Roman’s feature-length documentary Ukrainian Sheriffs won the Special Jury Prize at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2015, Grand Prix of the IDFF Docs against Gravity, and was selected as the Ukrainian submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His second documentary, Dixie Land (2016), premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the USA and received a Golden Duke Award for Best Ukrainian Film at the Odesa International Film Festival. Roman also works as an art director of the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and has been a member of the selection committee for the Ukrainian submissions to the Academy Awards since 2019.
