Pamfir (2022)
- Original title
- Памфір
- Directed by
- Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Chile, Ukraine, France, Poland
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- N-16
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 79 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man returns to his rural hometown in western Ukraine for a traditional holiday. He tries to support his family while dealing with local power dynamics and his own troubled past.
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What happens
Pamfir (Ukrainian: «Памфір») is a 2022 Ukrainian fictional feature film directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, which world premiered on May 22, 2022, at the 75th Festival de Cannes, in the selection of the 54th Directors' Fortnight. In Ukrainian distribution since March 23, 2023. From June 22 that year, the film was released on Netflix. The film received the main prize of the Cairo International Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist, took part in many international film festivals. Pamfir was named among the best films of 2023 by The Guardian. Oleksandr Yatsentiuk played the leading role. The film was made before Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine, and became one of the most important artistic expressions about contemporary Ukraine – its unbreakable spirit and will for life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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