Nostos)
Fiction | 00:20 | SWITZERLAND
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY SERHII TYKHONIUK
IN COPRODUCTION WITH ECAL
Serhii, a young Ukrainian director in exile, isolates himself in a hotel room to escape his responsibilities and his personal crisis. The sudden arrival of Lisa, his former partner, to tell him that she has to return to Ukraine to look after her father, upsets his isolation. Trapped in this room, they confront their wounds, their broken ties and an essential question: where is their true home?
Biography
Serhii Tykhoniuk, Director
Born in 2004 in Mariupol, Ukraine. He moved to Kyiv at the onset of the war in southern Ukraine. In 2020, he graduated in filmmaking from the KAMA (Kyiv Academy of Media Arts). Prior to the full-scale war, he was a student at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, specializing in Film and Television Directing. Since 2022, he has been based in Switzerland, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema at ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne). His first short documentary THE LIGHTS OF KYIV (2023) premiered at Visions du Réel in Nyon and won the Best U-20 Film Award at UFM in Lucerne. He graduated in 2025 with his short film NOSTOS.
Filmography (selection)
The Lights of Kyiv, doc, 2023
Festivals
2026: Solothurner Filmtage – Talents Competition (Switzerland)
Casting
Serhii Tykhoniuk
Ielyzaveta Okhrimchuk
Writtted & directed by
Serhii Tykhoniuk
Image
Augustin Losserand
Sound
Marine Maye
Production design
Eliott Waldis
Editing
Antoine Flahaut
Original music
Yatoni Roy Cantu
Assistant director
Yannick Maron
Script continuity
Mathilde Miserez
Camera assistant
Gaétan Carron
Gaffer
Romain Schär
Sound editing
Hana Magimel
Sound mix
Paul Pourchet
Color grading
Robin Erard
Produced by
GoldenEggProduction | Yan Decoppet & Gabriela Bussmann
In coproduction with
ECAL
With the support of
l’Office fédéral de la culture
Cinéforom
Loterie Romande
