DAD’S SNEAKERS

Film Info

Ukraine 2022 | 19 min. Director: Olha Zhurba

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DAD’S SNEAKERS

Synopsis

An immersive insight into the last hours of 13-year-old Sasha’s life in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the lucky ones: an American family has finally adopted him. Today he will move to another country forever, although something is holding him back.

Cast & Crew

Director

Olha Zhurba
Producer

Maksym Asadchyi, Sashko Chubko
Screenwriter

Olha Zhurba
Director of photography

Volodymyr Usyk
Main Cast

Bohdan Zenchenko (Sasha), Dmytro Buchek (Zhenya), Ihor Oliynyk (Rostik), Olga Lyubarova (Larysa Hryhorivna), Corie Ann Jason (American woman), Olena Osina (Viktoriia Viktorivna)
Casting

Oleksandr Tolmachov, Daria Lashkul, Olga Lyubarova
Editor (Cut)

Olha Zhurba
Sound

Vasyl Yavtushenko, Mykhailo Zakutsky
Production Design

Anastasiia Stoikova
VFX Supervisor

Max Arseniuk
Costume Design

Mariia Kero
Makeup

Liubov Yatsiuk

Director's comment

DAD'S SNEAKERS is a fictional part of the long-term documentary coming-of-age film OUTSIDE. Its main character for some time was in a rehabilitation center for children deprived of parental care. The more I immersed in this theme, the more I realized how far our society is from realizing the scale of the problems of children without families. I felt the need to share my observations and experiences of communicating and interacting with children and adolescents, as well as representatives of the state care system. My goal was to convey the feelings of the child during the adoption, and the invisible but strong connection with the biological parents. This story that is in the basis of the film is absolutely fictional and inspired by first-hand observation of the life in rehabilitation centres and the study of the psychology of children growing up in difficult life circumstances. We chose the documentary style of filming in order to convey the state of the main character as sensually as possible.