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HER SEAT IS VACANT, Narrative Short, 35mm

HER SEAT IS VACANT, Narrative Short, 35mm

Writer/ Director: Bohdana Smyrnova

Vira, a forty-year-old Ukrainian immigrant in New York, is preparing for her sister’s funeral. Amongst all her responsibilities, Vira suddenly finds herself falling in love.

Ron Tibbet Award For Excellence in Film

Best Fiction Film, ‘Start’ Film Festival (Baku, Azerbaijan)

Best Direction, ‘Vidkryta Nich’ Film Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Official Selection: Cottbus IFF (Cottbus, Germany), River Film Festival (Padova, Italy), Trypilske Kolo (Ukraine), Lubuskie lato filmowe (Zielona Góra, Poland), Brussels International Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium), REGARD au Saguenay (Chicoutimi, QC, Canada), Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI, USA), Magnolia Film Festival (Starkville, MS), Brief Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK), ISFVF Beijing (Beijing, China), Molodist IFF (Kyiv, Ukraine), ‘Ternopilska Lypa’ (Ternopil’, Ukraine), ‘Kinolev’ (Lviv, Ukraine)

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