Sanatorium (2025)
Gar O’Rourke
Gar O’Rourke
- Project Type
- Feature Documentary
- Title
- Sanatorium (2025)
- Release Date
- 2025
- Irish Partner
- Venom Films
- Co-Partners
2332 (Ukraine)
- Funding Strand
- Slate Development
- Year Funded
- 2022
Shot on location in Ukraine, Sanatorium takes viewers inside Kuyalnik Sanatorium on the outskirts of Odesa, a vast Soviet-era health retreat where visitors undergo traditional treatments, find community, and navigate a summer like no other - despite the war unfolding around them.
Directed by Gar O’Rourke, Sanatorium is a feature documentary from Irish company Venom Films in co-production with Ukrainian company, 2332.
Despite a war close by, mud treatments and electro-therapies continue at Kuyalnik Sanatorium near Odesa in southern Ukraine, where a small group searches for love, healing and happiness.
Oscar® International Feature Film Selection
IFTA announced that the Irish-made, Ukrainian-language film Sanatorium has been selected to represent Ireland in the Oscar® International Feature Film category at the upcoming 98th annual Academy Awards.
Screening at CPH:DOX 2025
Sanatorium was selected to make its World Premiere at CPH:DOX 2025, one of the biggest documentary festivals in the world. Sanatorium has been nominated for a DOX:AWARD by CPH:DOX and will screen at CPH:DOX 2025 from 19th - 30th March, 2025. The documentary will have an online Danish-wide release from 28th March to 13th April via the festival’s streaming service.
Credits
- Produced by: Andrew Freedman, Ken Wardrop, Samantha Corr
- Executive Producer For Screen Ireland: Greg Martin
- Cinematographer: Denys Melnyk
- Editor: John Murphy
- Production Companies: Venom Films, BBC Storyville
- Co-Production Company: 2332 Films Ukraine
- Funded By: Screen Ireland, BBC Storyville, Metfilms, France TV, Creative Europe