Edition: 2015

Selected by the Festival: WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2014, Tartu, Estonia

Year of production: 2013

Country of production: Ukraine

Production: Dovzhenko National Motion Picture Studio & "N" Film Studio

Set in: Ukraine

Duration: 52'

Film: Color

Directed by: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Krasna Malanka is a story about people from the Romanian village of Krasna, in the territory of Ukraine, who are getting prepared for the Malanka holiday. This holiday is a landmark event for everybody, but especially for young men, for whom it’s the main initiation in their lives. Malanka is a carnival, a pagan event where everyone plays their own part.