Section: MIOB

AS IT WAS

AS IT WAS

Damian Kocur, Anastasia Solonevych
PL/UA, 2023, 15 Min

After an argument with her boyfriend a young woman is driving home. There she plays the piano, celebrates, walks through the sunrise. Everything seems normal, but nothing is normal because her home is Kyiv.  A tender film about trying to live an ordinary life in the midst of a war.

#short #diversity #generations

Part of the programme MIOB IN SHORTS 1

09.11.2024 | 19:00 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

Drehbuch
Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian Kocur
Kamera
Damian Kocur
Ton
Tadeusz Chudy, Łukasz Kaczmarski
Schnitt
Damian Kocur
Darsteller
Valeriia Berezovska, Kyrylo Zemlyanyi, Olena Korohod, Sofiia Berezovska
Produzent
Piotr Steczek / EXA Studio
Co-Produktion
Mikołaj Lizut / Lizart Film

Damian Kocur, Anastasia Solonevych - DAMIAN KOCUR is a director and cinematographer. A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Film School in Łódź. He is the author of the internationally awarded feature debut "Bread and Salt" (awarded, among others, at festivals in Venice, Cairo, Cottbus, Antalya, Gijon, Bratislava and Gdynia) and several shorts. As a filmmaker, he keeps track of the credibility of emotions on the screen, and considers the authenticity of the characters and their stories to be his most important goal.

Anastasia Solonevych is a debut director from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020, she graduated from the department of Film and Television Directing at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. As a director, Anastasia has made music videos, one of which won the music video section at the International Prague Film Festival in 2022.  Since 2017, she has been working as a 1st AD, as well as in other positions in commercials, feature films and TV series.

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