

Rock, Paper, Scissors
Based on a true story — Ivan and his father operate a makeshift hospital at the frontline of war, but when enemy soldiers close in, Ivan faces an impossible choice to protect his father, their patients, and everything they stand for.
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8.0/10
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- Released
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- Language
- Russian
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereHollyshorts Film Festival16 Aug 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereCambridge Film Festival28 Oct 2024
- Digital / OTTYouTube (limited release on BAFTA’s channel)19 Feb 2025
- PremiereManchester Film Festival23 Mar 2025
BulgariaBG
- PremiereOKO International Ethnographic Film Festival: Bulgarian Edition5 Oct 2025
GermanyDE
- PremiereMax Ophüls Film Festival26 Jan 2025
- PremiereOldenburg International Film Festival 11 Sept 2025
New ZealandNZ
- PremiereShow Me Shorts Film Festival13 Oct 2024
SpainES
- PremiereAguilar Film Festival2 Dec 2025
UkraineUA
- PremiereOKO International Ethnographic Film Festival: Ukrainian Edition7 Sept 2025
- PremiereLviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 19 Sept 2025
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Rock, Paper, Scissors was released on 13 October 2024.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/17/2025
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 …
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