Rotation

Rotasyon / Ротація

DCP / Color / 12’
Ukrainian with Turkish and English Subtitles
Ukraine, Türkiye, Sweden, 2026

Director: Maryna Er Gorbach
Screenplay: Maryna Er Gorbach
Cinematography: Svyatoslav Bulakovskyi
Editing: Maryna Er Gorbach
Cast: Nadiia Karpova, Oleksandr Piskunov
Producer: Mehmet Bahadır Er, Maryna Er Gorbach
Production: Protim Video Production
World Sales: Protim Video Production

Synopsis

Having left civilian life behind to serve in the military in wartime, a young Ukrainian woman now lives in a reality that no longer feels like her own. Rotation follows her struggle to adapt to this new life through a therapeutic hypnosis session. More than a ritual of healing, the session opens a door onto the inner world of a generation whose bodies and minds move back and forth between the front line and civilian life. The title refers to the periods when soldiers are withdrawn from the front to rest and recover. In this short, Maryna Er Gorbach — who won the Directing Award at Sundance for the Ukrainian-Turkish co-production Klondike — approaches displacement not only as a geographical rupture but as an estrangement from one’s own life and identity. Shot in Ukraine in the summer of 2025, the film was recorded on Svema film stock, manufactured and stored in Shostka in the Sumy region, a city that is today under Russian shelling.

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