Tetiana Symon

Writer-director

Ukraine

Tetiana is a Ukrainian director, an actor coach, a casting director, 1AD.
She studied at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television, majoring in directing. In 2015 she made her debut short film « Trash ». After that, she started to work as an actor coach and casting director with famous Ukrainian directors, such as Valentyn Vasyanovych, Roman Bondarchuk, Maryna Er Gorbach. She specializes in working with non- professional actors in feature films.
Since March 2022, Tetiana has been working on the War Archive project. Tetiana heads the direction of interviewing witnesses of war crimes. Also, Tetiana is the author of the documentary film « Witnesses », which is based on interviews from War Archive.

FUCKING SENSITIVITY is the full-length director’s debut of Tetiana.

Project

F**cking Sensitivity

The journalist Yasya has been writing about the development of civil society in Ukraine for many years. Despite the obvious burnout, which has long been obvious to her and her environment, she continues to make new articles, each of which exhausts her even more. Another material, which should have been a simple coverage of the rehabilitation process of veterans, ended with the suicide of one of the veterans, and Yasya herself ends up on the verge of a nervous breakdown. All this is accompanied by the daily news about russia’s alleged invasion of Ukraine. Yasya’s boyfriend is tired of saving her – he is preparing to defend the country from invaders. Yasya dares to start her own rehabilitation process. She goes to a rehabilitation center, but the next day, russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.