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Release Date:
November 8, 2023
Original Title:
Фото на пам'ять
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Real Pictures
Production Countries:
France | Germany | Ukraine
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 72
An essay-style account of the war from the perspective of three generations of women - those of the director, her mother, and that of her grandmother. Originally from Donetsk - an industrial city in eastern Ukraine - the family was uprooted in 2014 when the Russian war against Ukraine first commenced. By 2022, the same enemy once again began knocking on the door of their new home -which was now in Kyiv- and once again destroyed everything that the family had worked so hard to rebuild. Thrown into the limbo of exile, the director (she is also the narrator of the film) dives into a kaleidoscope of memories and chronicles both her personal and collective familial search for something to hold on to amid these turbulent times.
Co-Producer:
Olivier Amiel
Flavia Oertwig
Laurence Uebersfeld
Creative Producer:
Olga Chernykh
Director:
Olga Chernykh
Director of Photography:
Olga Chernykh
Editor:
Katarzyna Boniecka
Line Producer:
Alevtyna Shkliarevych
Music:
Maryana Klochko
Producer:
Regina Maryanovska Davidzon
Oleksii Hladushevskyi
Screenplay:
Olga Chernykh
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