China－Eastern Europe Film Promotion Project: Central & Eastern European Films Presentation Captives (2015) (Original title: Brantsi ) Country of production: Ukraine Synopsis: This is a detective story-documentary. Over a year has passed since the tragic events on Institustka Street in Kyiv on February 20, 2014. On that day,special-forces units opened fire on the protestors, unleashing their destruction, killing over 50 people and wounding over 200. The ensuing chaos within the ranks of law enforcement agencies combined with the protestor’s fear of repression among activists, created countless “white stains” for an already complicated crime without precedence in criminal history. To date, not a single case has been brought to the court...Today our heroes volunteer to supply equipment for soldiers deployed in the ATO, yet despite the war, they have not forgotten their search for justice.They are different characters with different stories following different paths to the truth, but they have one common goal...A lawyer is searching for witnesses to the shooting death of her client. A son uncovers the circumstances of his father’s death. A father, distrusting the prosecutor’s office, organizes his own independent investigation into the murder of his son...At the same time the criminal case proceeds, OLEKSANDR KLOCHKO (SASHKO) a biology student, who helped carry the wounded and dead from Institutska Street that day begins his own investigation. During these bloody events, Sashko bumps into a soldier from the Interior Troops of the Ministry of the Interior in the hallway of the International Culture and Art Center (a.k.a October Palace). He looks just like Sashko, twenty-something, grimy and covered in soot from the burning Maidan, he is exhausted almost to death, and lost. Sashko tries to convince him to relinquish his weapon and join the protestors. At that moment he realizes the absurdity of the nightmare around him. This soldier becomes Sashko’s metaphysical reflection, one in which he sees the opposite image of his own self, like opposite poles. Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy, was born in 1971 in a town of Chervonohrad in Lviv region. In 1997 graduated from the Faculty of Feature Film Directing, workshop of Mykhailo Illienko of Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Art. Worked in television, at different Ukrainian state and private film studios. His feature film debut is CAR WASHER (2001). Participant and prize-winner of all-Ukrainian and international film festivals in San Sebastian, Warsaw, Tbilisi, Odessa. Cast: SashkoKlochko, VolodymyrGolodniuk, EvgeniaZakrevska, Maks Popov, Victor Yanukovych Producer: Igor Savychenko, Volodymyr Tykhyy, Marko Suprun Production: NGO Babylon13 and Directory Films LLC Contact Person: NGO Babylon`13-VolodymyrTykhyy,Directory films-Igor Savychenko T.: (+380) 675 074 518,(+42) 079 107 7044 Email: [email protected], [email protected] World Sales: Directory Films LLC Ukraine, Kyiv, 04070, Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska str. 10A Contact person: Igor Savychenko T.: (+380) 503 304471 Email: [email protected]