Summer Days Off

Kyiv, 2019 – total copying of style, views, and hobbies. Obsession with everything new and fashionable, lack of independent thinking, lack of truth and genuine desires. The new generation has stopped asking itself the question: what do I really want to do here and now? But these Ukrainians have their own reality. They are a new generation of young people who think critically. Original. Sincere.

17 troublemaking kids from different parts of Ukraine help the adult director Katya find her lost home. Katya embarks on a long journey where she meets future adults, together they seek the answer, what is home? Is home people? Or is it things? Or maybe home is our language? At the end of the journey, Katya realizes that she still doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, but she definitely understands that to find home, she needs to return to the mundane, simple, and sometimes interesting life that she has loved for 33 years.

In 2022, the young Ukrainian director Katia found herself in Prague, but this isn't just another tale of immigrant efforts. After two years abroad, Katya embarks on a candid journey of self-discovery.