Feature Film Selection/ Ukraine, Germany, 2022, 67’

Details

• Director: Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz
• Editing: Yevgenia Danilenko, Julia Wiedwald
• Cinematography: Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz
• Music: DakhaBrakha, Ganna Gryniva
• Producer: Marcus Lenz
• Production: Wildfilms, WDR
• 2023 Hot Docs Mid-Length Documentary Audience Award
• 2023 AJB Doc Film Festival Main Award
• 2023 Pordenone Doc Fest Special Mention

Recap

The personal account of the war in Ukraine, filmed in the first weeks after liberation of Bucha district. The film follows several protagonists closely as they deal with the aftermath, on practical and psychological level. This film depicts destroyed lives but also about humanity and hope, as the war in Ukraine continues to rage.

Director

Mila Teshaieva

An Ukrainian artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Her work is focused on the topics of national memories and collective identities on the territories of the former Eastern block. The retrospective of her work “Imagined Communities” was shown at the MIT Museum in Boston in 2018.

Marcus Lenz

A German director, screenwriter and cinematographer based in Berlin. He graduated from the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). His feature film Rival (2020) premiered at Busan IFF and won the Best Director award at Tokyo IFF, Best Global Film at Pristina IFF, among many other awards.

Trailer

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