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Driving Lessons

2024 · 18 min

A quiet, tense drive through a city at war, where small arguments carry the weight of everything unsaid.

Directed by
Anastasiya Gruba
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kostiantyn Danyliuk, Angelina Samchyk
Overview
Wartime Kyiv. A father helps his daughter to practice driving. They are the only relatives to each other and have a strong connection, but many disagreements in their opinions. The driving lesson ceases to be ordinary when the father is issued a summons at a checkpoint.

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Directed by
Anastasiya Gruba
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kostiantyn Danyliuk, Angelina Samchyk
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • war
  • parenthood
  • fate
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour3
Realism8
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Anastasiya Gruba
Written by
Anastasiya Gruba
Starring
Kostiantyn Danyliuk, Angelina Samchyk
Cinematography
Oleksandra Pletenetska
Runtime
18 min
Country
Ukraine
Languages
Ukrainian

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