Sickfuckpeople

synopsis

A documentary triptych about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grew up and start to live an adult life. It’s a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It’s a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to her child whose childhood probably will be even worse then hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to make an abortion.

director´s
statement

Ugly Ukrainian winter. I was in the situation, when the only salvation from my inner problems seemed to be outside of a world I was used to. Maybe this was the reason why I‘ve made a step inside the basement full of halfdead addicts immediately after such possibility was given to me. After my short introduction they invited me to sit down on a warm tube, near the room entrance full of human shit. I‘ve been sitting there silently, looking at their preparations. When they began to shoot up, my only will was to turn my head away, to scream, to cry, to shut my eyes and never see this again. But I was watching how their veins were torn by the needles over and over again. When the last of them made an injection, the first one started it over. Few hours later, after climbing out of their hole, after drinking and vomiting a bottle of cognac, I‘ve realized that I have no other option than to film them. This movie is an immersion in their everyday life, in their everyday self-destruction, in their past and future.

“People will hate you for this film. With passion.”
Michael Glawogger

about juri rechinsky

Juri Rechinsky was born in 1986. He studied at the Kyiv Poly-technic Institute and at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyy Theatre, Cinema and Television University. As a freelance editor, he made a number of commercials, short and feature films. He worked as an editor in chief at one of the “Mosfilm” studios in Moscow for two years. From 2008 he directed a few short films, short documentaries and art projects. In 2011 he finished “Sickfuckpeople - Short Version” which was the basis for the work on “Sickfuckpeople”. “Sickfuckpeople” is his first feature-length documentary.

team

Director: Juri Rechinsky
Cinematographers: Alex Zaporoshchenko, Serhiy Stetsenko
Original Music & Sound Design: Anton Baibakov
Editor: Juri Rechinsky
Production Manager: Darya Bassel
Line Producer: Johanna Scherz
Executive Producers: Klaus Pridnig, Sergiy Nedzelskyy, Darya Bassel
Producers: Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr

awards

Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film, Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013     
Best Documentary Feature, Raindance Film Festival, London 2013  
Best International Documentary, DOCsDF International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico City 2013     
Vienna Film Award for Best Documentary, Viennale, Vienna 2013  
Erste Bank MoreVALUE Film Award, Viennale, Vienna 2013   
Best European Independent Documentary, ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival, Paris, France
Grand Prix, HumanDoc Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland

festivals

Toronto, Canada  Hot Docs Canadian Int. Documentary Film Festival
Sarajevo, Bosnia  Sarajevo Film Festival
Nancy, France  Aye Aye Film Festival
London, UK   Raindance
Kyiv, Ukraine  Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Vienna, Austria  Viennale
Mexico City, Mexico    DocsDF Int. Documentary Film Festival Mexico
Leibzig, Germany  DOK Leibzig
Belgrade, Serbia  Freezone Film Festival
Lisboa, Portugal  Rotas&Rituais
Cork, Ireland  Cork Film Fest
Kassel, Germany  Kassler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
Firenze, Italy  Festival dei Popoli
Moscow, Russia  Art Doc Fest
Zagreb, Croatia  Human Rights Film Festival Zagreb
Vienna, Austria  This Human World
Mumbai, India  Mumbai Film Festival
Thessaloniki, Greece   Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
Vilnius, Lithuania  Vilnius International Film Festival
Paris, France  European Intependent Film Festival
Jakarta, Indonesia  Chop Shots 2014
Cluj-Napoca, Romania Transilvania International Film Festival
Auckland, New Zealand Documentary Edge Film Festival
Gdanks, Polen   Gdansk DocFilm Festival
Kitzbühel, Austria  Kitzbuehel Film Festival
Barcelona, Spain   Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona
Tirana, Albania  Human Rights Film Festival Albania
Kaunas, Lithuania  Kaunas International Film Festival
Tbilisi, Georgien   CineDoc Tbilisi Documentary Film Festival
Warsaw, Poland  HumanDoc Film Festival
Istanbul, Turkey  1001 Documentary Film Festival

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