Original name: Evge
English name: Homeward
Year:2019
Run time: 96'
Language: Ukrainian
Type (Colour/ Black & white):Colour
Country: Ukraine
Director: Nariman Aliev
Producers: Vladimir Yatsenko
Cast: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov
Screenplay: Nariman Aliev, Marysia Nikitiuk
Cinematographer: Anton Fursa
Editor: Oleksandr Chornyi
Sound Designer: Serhiy Stepanskiy
Costume Designer: Asya Sutyagina
Production Designer: Vlad Odudenko
Production Company: Limelite
World Sales: Wild Bunch
World Sales Phone: +33 1 43 13 21 39
World Sales Email: obensalah@wildbunch.eu
Nariman Aliev was born December 15, 1992, in Crimea, Ukraine. In 2014, he received a master’s degree from Kyiv National Theater, Film and Television University in television directing. He has been a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017. As a director, he made three short films united in the trilogy Crimean Stories: Return with Sunrise (2013), Love You (2014), and Without You (2016). Each of the works screened in leading national and international film festivals, including Berlin, Palm Springs ShortFest, Vancouver, and others.
Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to take the boy’s body to his native land: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.