THE GLASS HOUSE

original fiction feature film / 99' / Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Cyprus

Victoria is an ambitious and talented architect who has carefully designed her life and business. She raises her daughter Alice as a copy of herself. Outside of her ideal world, Victoria hardly notices anything. Her next step towards self-realisation is to take on a creatively daring project to reconstruct a ruined church, which is expected to bring her long-awaited international recognition. This elaborate construction cracks when Victoria's daughter does not enter the architecture department as planned and starts dating a guy who, in Victoria's opinion, should not be a priority at this stage of her life. Victoria does not openly oppose Alisa's decisions, realising that her daughter should draw her own life and gives her the freedom to make her own mistakes. During the celebration of the freshmen' inauguration, Alisa disappears. The police have evidence to implicate her boyfriend and her in drug trafficking. Victoria calls her ex-husband, who works in the police, for help. Their interpretations of the reasons for Alisa's disappearance differ, and over time, Victoria begins to realise how far her daughter has drifted away from her in recent years. Evidence increasingly points to Alisa's involvement with drugs. The ideal relationship with her daughter, based on mutual understanding and frankness, becomes an illusion, a bubble that suddenly bursts. Victoria is forced to face the real world and begins an investigation on her own, which magically leads her to the ruins of an old church. In a vacuum of loneliness, under pressure from society and accusations from her ex-husband, Victoria risks her life to prove her daughter's innocence while working on an architectural project that is so important to her.

Director: Taras Dron

Taras studied in the Department of Director at the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School (PWSFTv i T) in Lodz, Poland. Most his films got awards at international film festivals. One of them is the winner in 1-2 Competition at Warsaw Film Festival 2020 for film “Blindfold”.

Selected filmography:

• 2023 THE GLASS HOUSE, director, scriptwriter, producer

• 2021 WHERE IS THE MONEY, co-writer, director collaboration

• 2020 BLINDFOLD, director, scriptwriter, producer

• 2018 DZIDZIO. FIRST TIME, director, scriptwriter

• 2016 BLACK MOUNTAIN (short), director, scriptwriter, producer

• 2016 STONE BREAD (short), director

• 2015 OSTAP (doc short), director, scriptwriter, producer

• 2013 TOUCH AND SEE (short), director, producer 2012 ONE (short), director, scriptwriter, producer

Creative team:

• Producers: Igor Savychenko, Valeria Sochyvets, Sergei Konnov, Taras Dron, Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona, Kamil Rutkowski

• Screenwriters: Taras Dron, Igor Savychenko, Jakub Prysak

• DOP: Oleksandr Pozdnyakov

• Composer: Mykyta Moiseiev

• Cast: Iryna Ostrovska, Dariia Fedyna, Oleksandr Bashkirov, Irma Vitovska