The Forgotten
Directed byDaria Onishchenko
Written byClaudia Lehmann
Daria Onyshchenko
Produced byDmytro Kozhema
Claudia Lehmann
Igor Savychenko
CinematographyErol Zubcevic
Edited bySimon Gutknecht
Music byMartin Skalsky
Distributed byArthouse traffic
Release dates
  • 12 October 2019 (2019-10-12) (WFF)
  • 3 September 2020 (2020-09-03)
Running time
105 minutes
LanguageUkrainian

The Forgotten (Ukrainian: Забуті, romanized: Zabuti) is a Ukrainian-Swiss co-production drama directed by Daria Onishchenko in 2019. The film tells the story of a thirty-year-old Ukrainian language teacher, Nina, who lives in Luhansk, occupied during the Russian-Ukrainian war, and who, due to the ban on the Ukrainian language by the Russian occupation authorities, is forced to retrain from a Ukrainian language teacher to a Russian language teacher, and at the same time struggle with internal experiences and feelings due to a sudden outbreak of love between her and a local seventeen-year-old boy.

The world premiere of the film took place on October 12, 2019, at the 35th Warsaw Film Festival as part of the competition program "1-2" ("Competition of the first and second feature films of young directors"), where the film received a special mention from the jury.[1] The film was presented in Ukraine on August 22, 2020, as part of the non-competitive program of the 49th Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist". The film was released in Ukrainian limited rental on September 3, 2020, and is distributed by Arthouse traffic.[2]

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