A company of 13-year-old boys has an entertainment of its own, i.e. to go for a drive by a truck trailer. An invalid chair is fastened to a truck in a special way, and one boy rides along a certain part of the road sitting in it. Today is Misha’s turn…
The Way
film by Max Ksjonda
Film information
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Runtime: 21 min
Original Language: Ukrainian, Russian
Country of Production: Ukraine
Year: 2012
Crew & Cast
Written by: Max Ksjonda & Ivan Timshyn
Directed by: Max Ksjonda
Director of Photography: Volodymyr Ivanov
Production Designer: Victor Buchkovskiy
Music: Anton Baibakov
Edited by: Victor Romaniuk, Max Ksjonda, Victoria Dvornikova
Produced by: Max Serdiuk
Cast: Evgeniy Gerasymenko, Evgeniy Efremov, Svitlana Shtanko, Victor Glushkov, Darik Bakumenko, Sergiy Kliushnychenko, Igor Makarskiy, Sergiy Sliusarenko, Maksym Stupnikov
Funding: “Ukrainian State Film Agency”
“і³ programme of Rinat Akhmetov Fund “Development of Ukraine”
Festivals & Awards
WINS
- Golden Duke for the Best Ukrainian Short on Odessa International Film Festival, 2013, Odessa, Ukraine
- Special mentions of the national competition jury “For the mastery in evoking emotions” on Kyiv Film Festival «Molodist», 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Jury Special Mention for Narrative Short on Slamdance Film Festival, 2014, Park City, Utah, USA
- Liberté-Audience Award in International and German competitions on Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2014, Hamburg, Germany
- Black Sea Competition Special Mention on In The Palace International Short Film Festival, 2014, Balchik, Bulgaria
- The best debut film of 2012-2013 years by The National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
- Brussels Short Film Festival, 2013
- Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2013
- Odessa International Film Festival, 2013
- Vukovar Film Festival , 2013
- Festival International du Film Nancy – Lorraine, 2013
- Open Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia “Kinoshock”, 2013
- International Short Film Festival „Vilnius Film Shorts“, 2013
- San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, 2013
- Kyiv Film Festival «Molodist», 2013
- The Euroshorts Film Festival, 2013
- Slamdance Film Festival, 2014
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2014
- Mo&Friese Children’s Short Film Festival, 2014
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2014
- Italian Movie Award©, 2014
- In The Palace International Short Film Festival, 2014
- Travelling Film Festival, 2014
- Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou, 2014
- Evreux Film Festival, 2014
- Philadelphia Film Festival, 2014
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2014
- Sedicicorto International Film Festival, 2014
- Film Festival Cottbus, 2014
- Arcipelago – International Festival of Short Films and New Images, 2014
- Interfilm, International Short Film Festival Berlin, 2014
- Helsinki Short Film Festival, 2014
- EUShorts Festival, 2014
- International Kinder Film Festival@masda, 2013
- Aguilar de Campo Short Film Festival, 2014
- Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2014
- Antarctic Short, Documentary and Animation Film Festival, 2014-2015
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