Ukraine's submission to this year's Oscars was writer/director Natalya Vorozhbit's Bad Roads. Split into vignettes, the film depicts several fraught
encounters on the byways of Eastern Ukraine. The movie swept the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards with Best Actor, Best Supporting
Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Discovery of the Year
category wins.
Igor Koltovskyy, Andrey Lelyukh, Vladimir Gurin, Anna Zhurakovskaya,
Yuliya Matrosova, Maryna Klimova, Yuri Kulinich, Zoya Baranovskaya,
Oksana Voronina
and Sergei Solovyov star.
Bad Roads is in US cinemas and VOD from April 29th. A UK/ROI
release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
A man alleging to be a schoolmaster is accosted by the military at a checkpoint. Two teenagers wait for their soldier boyfriends in a dilapidated town square. A journalist is held captive and gets brutally assaulted. A young woman apologizes to an elderly couple for running over their chickens. Featuring four stories set against the backdrop of the Donbass roads during wartime, loomed by disorientation, paranoia, and terror, BAD ROADS, which challenges the very notion of truth, delivers audiences to a bleak Ukraine they’ll not soon forget.
