It’s a Date

Berlinale Shorts 2023

Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this contemporary remake of Claude Lelouch’s film C’etait un rendez-vous captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.

by Nadia Parfan
with Diana Berg, Olena “Tiger” Ukraine 2023 Without dialogue 5’ Colour

With

Diana Berg
Olena “Tiger”

Crew

Director	Nadia Parfan
Screenplay	Nadia Parfan
Cinematography	Denys Melnyk
Editing	Nadia Parfan
Sound Design	Margaryta Kulichova
Sound	Yevhenii Chaban
Production Manager	Kyrylo Rybiantsev
Producers	Iryna Kovalchuk, Ilia Gladshtein, Nadia Parfan

World sales

Radiator IP Sales

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Produced by

Radar Films

Phalanstery Films

Photos

Nadia Parfan

Born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1986. The Ukrainian filmmaker and producer has a degree in cultural studies from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and in social anthropology from the Central European University in Budapest. From 2012 to 2013, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2015, she completed a documentary filmmaking course at the Wajda School in Warsaw. Her feature-length debut Heat Singers premiered at Visions du Réel in 2019 and was awarded Best Documentary by both the Ukrainian Film Critics Association and the Ukrainian Film Academy.

Filmography

2014 Exarch; short film 2016 Reve ta stohne on tour; short film 2017 Housewarming; short film 2019 Heat Singers 2021 Women Who Play 2023 I Did Not Want to Make a War Film · It’s a Date; short film

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023