Mykyta Kuzmenko

Camera operator

October 29, 1989 (36 years)

Kyiv, Ukraine

Biography

Mykyta Kuzmenko is a Ukrainian cinematographer, born, raised, and educated in Kyiv, Ukraine. He earned a master’s degree from the Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Kuzmenko then continued his education at the Andrzej Wajda Film School through the Gaude Polonia scholarship. In 2013, together with Ukrainian director Ostap Kostyk and cinematographer Olexandr Pozdnyakov, he began filming the documentary Living Fire, which won the Special Jury Award at the H…

Filmography

7.6

U Are the Universe

After the explosion of the Earth, the Ukrainian space trucker Andriy becomes the only human in the Universe until French woman Catherine calls him from the faraway space station. Andriy decides to see her despite all the obstacles.

7.2

Pamfir

When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.

8.0

Mia Donna

The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless, and nobody can turn him back.

7.0

Heavy Mental

An unemployed actor, suffering from a mental block, is offered to play a tragicomic part in his own life. In return for a flat, he is meant to pick up a girl and then “transfer” her to his employer.

N/A

Solatium

Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.

6.0

Under the Volcano

A Ukrainian family is spending their final day of vacation in Tenerife, Spain when suddenly Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full-scale invasion. As their return to Kyiv becomes impossible, the tourists become refugees overnight.

5.8

Let's Dance

Nikita, talented young dancer, enters Let's Dance competition to earn money for his brother's surgery but a brief encounter with a famous singer Liza, who hosts the competition, puts his chances of winning and even life at risk.

N/A

Voduyrudu

Voduyrudu (Will, Thought, Movement, Spirit) is a folk-improvisational film-ballet, the origins of which are environment and time. This film is an act of revival of national culture, through the expressiveness of such independent elements of folk art as music and dance, displayed in the frame of the film, that transforms their action into a dynamic picture that will be tested only by faith and time.

7.6

The Living Fire

“Lives begin and end, but everything goes back to the earth.” A tour-de-force of cinematography and sound design, this captivating, award-winning documentary looks at three generations of sheepherders in the Carpathian Mountains. While father and son take their flock on their annual journey through the highlands, the 82-year-old widower Vasyl reflects on his past back home. A sublime look at the cycles of life and the waning of tradition.

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The Roots. Dreams

Sanko returns to his grandfather's house, where he spent his childhood.

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Ladybug

Mia notices a ladybug in the hair of an attractive boy. Mia's offer to remove the insect leads to a conversation, which quickly results in an invitation to have coffee at a small café. When Mia meets another attractive guy on the subway and offers to remove a ladybug from his hair, it becomes clear that this is no coincidence.

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Family Hour

Post-Soviet summer camp near Kyiv. Danya (16) prepares a special performance for the visit of his father, who is not living with him for a long time. However, Danya's father arrives earlier than expected and comes to the camp not alone.

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