Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar
Synopsis
Director's Statement
Visually, THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP relies heavily on static imagery, and the film is shot entirely in black and white. The absence of color erases the geographical identity of space, as we move between peaceful and military scenes, and between different country locations. We start from arial shots in which we couldn’t even recognize what planet it is. The first episode will open the grey zone for us, the zone between two military forces. From this point, we are starting our journey through our world. At the beginning, we don’t understand exactly who is the main character of the film, the camera is looking for the protagonist among different people until we find Andriy Suleyman and his family. We rely on visual rhymes to heighten this ambiguity, showing congruity and contradiction between images of military machinery and Red Cross humanitarian convoys, national dance in Ukraine and Kurdistan, parades of soldiers and Gay pride in Germany.
The film is divided into 10 parts, marked by the Arabic numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0, from 0 to 0. This is supposed to emphasize the cycling of such things as war and peace, destroying and rebuilding, life and death. The flow of the water is our main metaphor and rhyme in the film and a lot of scenes are connected with water. Our film is divided into two worlds: the private story of Suleyman’s family and the metaphorical background of the world. These worlds are going in parallel and in every scene they are coming together, strengthening each other. The final scene emphasizes the primary meaning of the film. We see Syrian refugees in Germany, who are learning a new language. After that our camera observes the big crowd of the people on the streets which starts to mix with different people from different places, refugees with soldiers, Ukrainian dancers with Kurdish. Following this, all these flows of people are mixing into one. The war and peace, love and hate, as well as life and death couldn’t exist without each other and actually create our world where we are living.
Director's Biography
FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP, documentary
2018 - NO OBVIOUS SIGNS, documentary
2017 - INVISIBLE BATTALION, short documentary
2016 - KHOLODNY YAR. INTRO, documentary
2014 - BABUSHKA, short
2012 - THE FIRST STEP IN THE CLOUDS, short
Cast & Crew
Directed by: Alina Gorlova
Written by: Alina Gorlova, Maksym Nakonechnyi
Produced by: Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ilona Bicevska, Patrick Hamm
Cinematography: Vyacheslav Tsvetkov
Editing: Olha Zhurba, Simon Mozgovyi, Alina Gorlova
Original Score: Goran Gora, Serge Synthkey
Sound: Vasyl Yavtushenko
Nominations and Awards
- Documentary Selection 2021