Directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • 2022 • Ukraine, Poland, France
Starring Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Solomiya Kyrylova, Stanislav Potiak

Charged with an almost demonic intensity, this electrifying thriller unfolds in the borderlands of western Ukraine (just prior to the Russian invasion) where former smuggler Pamfir (Oleksandr Yatsentiuk) returns home on the eve of the traditional Malanka festival. He’s determined to start a new, honest life for the sake of his family—but his son’s transgression soon pulls him back into the criminal underworld and sets him on a perilous path with irreversible consequences. Realized in unstoppably dynamic long takes, PAMFIR pushes the gritty gangster drama into dimensions of feverish, folkloric unreality.