The distribution of Volodymyr Tykhyy’s “Brama” has started in the movie theatres. It is a mystical drama about Ukrainians who are not able to escape from their native land despite local life has turned into a total suffering. The film depicts our reality and some ironic pessimism.
The picture unfolds in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, where the hermit family lives. The family is headed by an eccentric old woman Baba Prysia, who smokes mysterious weeds, eats mushrooms and radioactive meat, communicates with the radio even when there are no batteries in it, she puts spells and also tells stories about the aliens in parliament and dandies in the forest.
