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Goodbye Golovin

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Goodbye Golovin
Film poster
Directed byMathieu Grimard
Written byMathieu Grimard
Produced bySimon Corriveau-Gagné
Mathieu Grimard
StarringOleksandr Rudynsky
Darya Plakhtiy
Maria Stopnyk
CinematographyAriel Méthot-Bellemare
Edited byMathieu Grimard
Distributed byH264 Distribution
Release date
  • October 24, 2019 (2019-10-24) (FCIAT)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesRussian
Ukrainian

Goodbye Golovin is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Mathieu Grimard and released in 2019. The film stars Oleksandr Rudynsky 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.[1]

The film premiered at the 2019 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Prix SPIRA jury.[2] It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the jury in the Generation 14plus program,[3] and at the 2021 Plein(s) écran(s) festival, where it won the Grand Prize.[4]

It received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards,[5] and a Prix Iris nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards, in 2021.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Artur Korniienko, "Film critic: Ukraine you’d never leave in flashy ‘Goodbye Golovin’ short". Kyiv Post, October 13, 2020.
  2. ^ Jean-François Vachon, "Le cinéma régional triomphe au FCIAT". Le Citoyen, October 31, 2019.
  3. ^ "Deux courts métrages québécois récompensés à la Berlinale". Ici Radio-Canada, February 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Éric Moreault, "Goodbye Golovin remporte le grand prix Plein(s) écran(s)". Le Soleil, January 23, 2021.
  5. ^ Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
  6. ^ Jean-François Vandeuren, "La déesse des mouches à feu part en tête des nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma 2021". Showbizz.net, April 26, 2021.
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