Partner: First Steps
Director:
Polina Piddubna
Filmmaker's profile
Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter Polina in 2022. Amid the invasion of Ukraine, she tries to restore memory and identity, and break generational trauma.
Duration: 13min.
Country: Germany
Language: Ukrainian, Bashkort (Bashkir), Tajiki, Russian, Tatar
Year: 2025
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Topic: Biography, Colonialism, Documentary, Family, Feminism, Human Rights, Identity, Immigration, Indigenous, War, Women
Director: Polina Piddubna
Production company: Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Writer: Polina Piddubna
Cinematographer: -
Editor: Jin Ju Lee
Actors: Mahla Mosahaneh, Polina Piddubna, Boshra Alkasir, Dinara Rasuleva, Alfiya Popowichenko
Festival de Cannes
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival
Berlin First Steps Award
Bucheon International Animation Festival
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Cinanima Animation Film Festival
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