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Hungary, Ucraine, Portugal, Belgium | 2024 | 14 min | col.
The film director welcomes a few girls who are interested in renting a room in her flat. With an apparently light register, the interviews initially offer a catalogue of preferences, expectations, and red lines regarding cohabitation rules. When a young woman from Ukraine – like the director is – turns up, the anonymous tone of the meetings is interrupted. The conversation changes course as well as language, dwelling on the stories of several young women who flew from Ukraine after the Russian invasion on a large scale: experiencing war and mourning, leaving one’s home, living precariously in exile. With fragments of the stories confided to her the filmmaker puts together a depiction of a generation’s trauma and loneliness. She participates with her own load of memories – videos of happy moments, the remnants of an intimate story embodying the collective grief for an impossible return. (m.m.)
Free Entrance
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 04 Nov 2024
- Time: 5:45
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Marta Smerechynska
Marta Smerechynska (Ukraina, 1997) is a documentary filmmaker. She holds academic degrees from I.K. Karpenko-Kary University in Kyiv, La Fémis in Paris, and the DocNomads Erasmus Master's program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Her films have been screened at over 30 festivals, including Visions du Réel, Sarajevo Film Festival, DMZ Docs, PÖFF Shorts, and FipaDoc.
