Directed by 31-year-old Damian Kosowski, the film is one of 12 works selected in the festival’s International Short Fiction Films category.
Set in the near future in post-war Ukraine, the story centers on Olena, a 34-year-old Ukrainian woman who travels with her eight-year-old daughter and current partner, Tymur, to a small town in eastern Ukraine. She is there to collect DNA test results confirming that her missing husband—lost during the war—is indeed dead. The film’s press materials describe how the grim reality of exhumed bodies, victims of Russian aggression, forces Olena to confront a choice between her present life and “a world that has ceased to exist.”
Kosowski, a graduate of the Fine Arts Academy and the National Film School in Łódź, wrote the screenplay during the War on Screen Fabrique 2021/22 grant program. He was among five recipients awarded the grant, which aimed to support film school students from France, Germany, Romania, Spain, and Poland working on conflict-related projects.
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Source: Polskie Radio