Pamfir
Buy ticketsA homecoming, authoritative father gets into trouble at a wild carnival in the Carpathian Mountain area in this sensational Ukrainian debut with vibes of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Pamfir returns home to his village after working abroad for quite some time. Now both his wife Olena and his bothersome teenage son Nazar want him to stay at home, putting love and family over money. But after a disastrous fire, Pamfir feels forced to return to his old business as a cross-border smuggler, which is not appreciated by the new, local gangster boss. Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk debuts with a brutal, beautiful and suggestive allegory of a Ukraine where corruption and injustice rule over ordinary people's lives. A family tale about loyalty, reconciliation and love, where tragedy threatens to escalate along with the rituals and showdowns of the pagan Malanka festival.
* The screening on February 1 is a Film Salon with the theme Film for Democracy. After the film and a pause with sparkling wine, Alexandra Kostina (producer of Pamfir), Anastasia Kirrilova (B2B Doc), Yelizaveta Smith (film collective Tabor), and Thomas Rosén (senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg) will meet in a dialogue about the role film plays in the development of society and democracy. (In English.)
- Camilla Larsson