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Goodbye Golovin (2019)

Goodbye Golovin poster
Directed by
Mathieu Grimard
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
14 min
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young man in Ukraine decides whether to leave his country for a better future after his father dies. The film follows his struggle with this difficult choice.

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What happens

Goodbye Golovin is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Mathieu Grimard and released in 2019. The film stars Oleksandr Rudynskyi as Ian Golovin, a young man in Ukraine who is considering whether to emigrate to a new country for a shot at a better life after the death of his father. The film premiered at the 2019 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Prix SPIRA jury. It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the jury in the Generation 14plus program, and at the 2021 Plein(s) écran(s) festival, where it won the Grand Prize. It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards, in 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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