Heat Singers

Director Nadia Paran

Producer Illia Gladshtein

Documentary, Ukraine, 2019, 64`

 

World premiere at Vision du Reel 2019

Ukrainian Premiere at Odessa International Film Festival 2019

 

For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at IvanoFrankivskTeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, bookkeepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that “the heating comes first – and only then do we sing!”. The rehearsal schedule must be organised around the “heating season”. As the collective  are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hotline service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?

 

PRODUCTION
Phalanstery Films

 

SALES CONTACT
Illia Gladshtein
ilko@86.org.ua
Tel. +380632807335