I Love Her
Film poster
UkrainianЯ її люблю
Directed byDarya Perelay
Written byDarya Perelay
Starring
  • Natalie Ivanchuk
  • Frau Hanna
CinematographySergey Marinchak
Release dates
  • 18 October 2013 (2013-10-18) (Germany)
  • 7 March 2014 (2014-03-07) (Ukraine)
Running time
4 minutes
CountryUkraine
LanguageRussian

I Love Her (Ukrainian: Я її люблю) is a 2013 Ukrainian drama short film directed by Darya Perelay.[1] It is the first Ukrainian movie about a lesbian relationship and is one of the first LGBT films produced in Ukraine.

I Love Her was first screened on 18 October 2013 at the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg festival in Germany;[2] followed by the Festival Internacional de Cinema Gai i Lèsbic de Barcelona on 25 October 2013;[3][4] FACE à FACE in the Courage section of the Short Films International Competition on 29 November 2013;[5][6][7] and the Festival Internacional de Cine por los Derechos Humanos Bogotá in December 2013 as an Official Selection in the International Short Film Competition.[8][9] In Ukraine, it was screened on 7 March 2014 at Zovten Cinema in Kyiv. The film was screened in Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States, totaling 23 countries.

Plot

A young musician and songwriter, Nataly, moves to Kyiv with dreams of being discovered and finding fame. While performing on the street she meets a deaf-mute young woman, Anna, and the two are drawn to each other. Together they defy the nation's restrictions against homosexuality.

Cast

  • Natalie Ivanchuk as Nataly
  • Frau Hanna as Anna

Bechdel Project

I Love Her is part of the Ukrainian "Bechdel Project" which consists of eight movies. The test asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.

I Love Her 2017 feature film

The 2017 feature version based on the short film was funded by the Barcelona Film Commission of the Generalitat de Catalunya;[10] and produced by Cosmo Films[11] and Afilm Productions.[10][12]

The 92-minute film is written, directed, and edited by Perelay; with Elena Lombao as cinematographer, and music composed by Olexii Ivanenko. Anuar Doss, Mikhail Chernikov, and Darya Perelay are the producers. It is set in Barcelona with the dialogue in English. Natalie Ivanchuk reprised the role of "Natalie", with Clare Durant as Anna, Alix Gentil as Julia, and Eudald Font as David. The feature film's tragic ending differs from the original short.

I Love Her (2017) screened at the Gay Film Nights International Film Festival in Romania on 18 November 2017.[13][12] The feature film became available on Amazon Prime Video on 16 May 2019.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Perelay, Darya (2017-12-01), I Love Her (Drama, Romance), retrieved 2022-03-05
  2. ↑ "Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg International Queer Film Festival". Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg (in German). issuu. 2013. p. 23. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Sessió de curtmetratges 3 – 13è Festival Internacional de Cinema Gai i Lèsbic de Barcelona". FilmoTeca de Catalunya (in Catalan). 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival". Barcelona Metropolitan. The Noise Lab S.L. October 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Face-a-Face 2013 – Programme". Abus de Ciné (in French). November 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Compétition Internationale" (PDF) (in French). Festival du Film Gay et Lesbien de Saint-Etienne. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "I love her". FACE à FACE (in French). 2013. Archived from the original on 2021-04-19. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  8. ↑ "Cortometraje internacional". Festival Internacional de Cine por los Derechos Humanos Bogotá (in Spanish). issuu. 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "You Are A Terrorist At Festival de Cine por los Derechos Humanos de Bogotá". The House of Films. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  10. 1 2 "I Love Her". Barcelona Film Commission. Generalitat de Catalunya. 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "Balanç Anual 2015" (PDF). Barcelona Film Commission (in Catalan). Generalitat de Catalunya. 2016. p. 14. Retrieved 15 December 2018. Llargmetratges Destacats Filmats a Barcelona
  12. 1 2 "I Love Her". iloveher.filmpls.com. 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "I Love Her". Serile Filmului Gay / Gay Film Nights (in Romanian). 12 October 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "I Love Her". instantwatcher.com. May 2019. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019. (The film year for the feature film is incorrectly given as 2013, the year for the short film.)
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