Kharkiv native Vlad Pogribny received an award at the PTAKH film festival in London as best supporting actor in the film “The Story of Lisa,” which tells the love story of “sunny” teenagers
Life | 28 November, 2025 at 16:54 | 1,240 | Author: Natalia Merkulova
Collage by Olena Zelenina.
Good news from London! At the Ukrainian film festival PTAK, held in the UK, two films by Ukrainian director and screenwriter Alexander Zhovna received awards - “Sasha” and “The Story of Lisa.”
Both films — Sasha, shot in 2021, and The Story of Lisa (2019) — are dramatic stories about people with disabilities: a young man confined to a wheelchair and the love of “sunny” teenagers that ended in tragedy.
Theater and film actor Dmytro Nezhelsky won the award for best actor in a feature film for his leading role in Sashenka.
And Kharkiv native Vlad Pogribny, then a “sunny” teenager, was recognized by the jury as the best supporting actor in a feature film for “The Story of Lisa” for his talented creation of a bright, sincere image of a vulnerable person.
Read more in the Ukrainian edition....
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