‘When the Trees Fall’ (‘Koly padayut dereva’): Film Review | Berlin 2018
Writer-director Marysia Nikitiuk's debut, a Ukrainian-Macedonian-Polish co-production, bowed in the Panorama section of the German fest. A debut feature bursting with audacity, flair and energetic promise,When the Trees Fall (Koly padayut dereva) propels 31-year-old Ukrainian writer-director Marysia Nikitiuk into the leading ranks of younger filmmakers from eastern/central Europe. Straddling several genres with aplomb — only the odd wobble here and there betrays her greenhorn status — Nikitiuk socks over a full-blooded enterprise punctuated with steamy […]







