Rock, Paper, Scissors

NFTS

United Kingdom

Pусский

Український

Oleksandr Rudynskyi

Serhii Kalantai

Sebastian Anton

Yuri Radionov

Oleksandr Yatsenko

Oleksandr Begma

Franz Böhm

Carmela Schönenberger

Hayder Rothschild Hoozeer

Shivani Bhawnani

Hsien Yu Niu

Marcin Mazurek

Ivan

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A young man is playing this game with a younger boy in what looks like a makeshift hospital where a solitary doctor is trying to tend to the wounds of many casualties. It transpires that they are awaiting a truck to take them to somewhere possibly safer, but when “Ivan” (Oleksandr Rudynskyy) goes outside to reconnoitre he sees a Russian war plane blow it to smithereens. Their radio contact informs him that there are enemy soldiers close by and so taking a rifle from one of the other casualties he sets off to protect them all. He finds, though, that seeing a man through his gunsight and actually pulling the trigger are two completely different matters, and in the end - with so much of the battle being fought remotely from the skies, would killing them make any real difference to their plight? The effort from Rudynskyy, his character barely a man himself, is touching and the sentiment of the piece palpably tugs at your heart-strings as does the bleakness, almost moon-scale nature, of their medical hole in the ground. It’s set in Ukraine but serves as a much more depressing indictment of warfare in general.

Rock, Paper, Scissors | BAFTA British Short Film Winner 2025

Rock, Paper, Scissors wins the British Short Film BAFTA | BAFTA Film Awards 2025

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