Goodbye Golovin
When home is a hopeless place, is it more courageous to stay – or to go? For Ian Golovin, his father’s death is an emancipation.
- Canada
- 2019, 14 min
- Director: Mathieu Grimard
- Director of photography: Ariel Méthot
- Editor: Mathieu Grimard
- Screenplay: Mathieu Grimard
- Cast: Oleksandr Rudinskiy, Dasha Plahtiy, Mariia Stopnyk
- Producer: Simon Corriveau-Gagné
- Production: Golovin Films
Mathieu Grimard
Mathieu Grimard is a writer and director from Montreal, Canada. He studied art history before entering university and taking a course in screenwriting. His storytelling style is rooted in youth culture and the human experience. Mathieu has directed over forty music videos and commercials. His first experimental short, Fleurs: Between Us Two (2018), looked at a relationship gone wrong. His most recent film, Goodbye Golovin (2020), is set in Eastern Europe and explores life, leaving home, and the loss of a sense of belonging.