Dad’s Lullaby

Written By Alex Szalat

80 min｜2024｜Ukraine

  • Director: Lesia Diak

  • Producers: Lesia Diak, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin

  • Co-Producer: Hrvoje Osvadić

  • Status: post-production

Serhiy returns home after serving as commander for 3 years in the war between Ukraine and Russia. He carried the weight and responsibility of other people’s lives. Now he finds himself torn between two battles – one to cope with his past, another to bond with his wife Nadiia and their three sons. The veteran is trying to cherish happy moments with his family. In late evenings he is opening up to the filmmaker about war. Reality starts to crumble when the couple start expecting a baby daughter as the war trauma, overwhelming, forces Serhiy to realize he can’t handle a family life anymore. As a large-scale Russian invasion breaks out, Serhiy is compelled to defend Ukraine on the frontline.

Alex Szalat
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