Set during a pandemic, the story unfolds in the family home of two women – a mother and her adult daughter. In one part of the house is the mother's music school, which she runs online. She is a piano teacher, a strong and organised woman who only has contact with her students and therefore has an endless sea of children around her. The other part of the building houses the daughter's painting studio. The two worlds rarely come into contact with one another, constituting a metaphor for human loneliness. Ultimately, however, the protagonists are brought together by the story of the death of Katya, the daughter of their friend Inna.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 30 min.
- Country, year
- Poland, 2022
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Russian, Ukrainian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Alina Maksimenko
- Screenplay
- Alina Maksimenko
- Producers
- Filip Marczewski, Katarzyna Madaj-Kozlowska, Wajda Studio
- Cinematography
- Alina Maksimenko
- Music
- Vladimir Tarasov
- Cast
- Tatiana Maksimenko, Alina Maksimenko, Inna Trufanova, Sergii Cherepanov
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Nomination in the Flash competition
- Romanian Days Award (Best Feature Film)
- nominuotas geriausio trumpametražio filmo kategorijoje.
- Best Direction Award
Director
Alina Maksimenko
Alina Maksimenko is a painter, film director, director of photography. She graduated from Kiev Art. College of M. Boychuk in 1993. In 2014 she showed her first video installation at the Kiev Arsenal. She also finished documentary film directing speciality at class of Sergey Bukovsky, Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute in 2019. She graduated from DOK PRO educational programme at Wajda School in 2020. She is a member of the BG-Ar