The picture tells about the events that took place in 1941.
Ukrainian-French film “Shuttle “ entered the program of the Rome Film Festival. The tape was selected for the Rome Film Festival's main competition, Ukrinform reports.
16 films from different countries will be shown in the section “Progressive Cinema – Visions of Tomorrow's World”. These will be game tapes, and documentaries and animations. At the same time, “Shuttle” is the only project of the competition program from Ukraine.
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We remind , previously “Shuttle” was selected for the program of the London Film Festival.
At the center of the film's plot is the love story of two residents of a shtetl (small town in Yiddish). Yuna and Medel fight for their happiness and the opportunity to be together, despite the will of their parents. A Ukrainian named Demyan helps them. All this happens in June 1941 – a day before the Nazi attack. The historical basis for the film was the fate of the town of Sokal in the Lviv region, which was destroyed by the German army.
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The film was shot in the summer of 2021. Shtetls – Jewish settlements that existed in Eastern Europe before the Second World War – were built especially for them in the Kyiv region.
