
ZLATA
Belgium | 2023 | 50 min | col.
When you are twelve, you don’t think that your home can suddenly become a dangerous place and that you might have to leave your town, your habits, without knowing when life resumes its course. You take it for granted to be able to hug your parents or pet your cat at any moment. War inexplicably, unjustly causes a break: your daily life is bluntly interrupted, the loved ones are forced to painful separations. 12-year-old Zlata flew from Ukraine when the war broke out and found shelter in Belgium along with her mother and brother. Her father stayed home, along with their beloved cat, Findus. Zlata misses Findus’s hugs, caresses, and purrs. Thanks to technology, she can have contacts: videocalls help keep a thin thread alive in a frozen time, the time of waiting, in which you only hope for getting back soon to everything that was taken from you. (s.b.)
YOUNG JURY DAY screening