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A season in the life of Alina, a 20-year-old girl from a poor family in Kyiv, who has a chance to be saved by football. She’s about to join the Ukrainian national team, when life throws up a new challenge: her mother dies, leaving two young siblings. Now, Alina must choose: football or family.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Ukraine, France, Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 86'
- YEAR:
- 2018
- DIRECTING:
- Alisa Kovalenko
- SCRIPT:
- Alisa Kovalenko
- DOP:
- Alisa Kovalenko, Stefan Serhiy Stetsenko
- EDITOR:
- Olha Zhurba
- PRODUCTION:
- Telewizja Polska, East Roads Films, Studio Garmata Film, DocEdu Foundation
Alisa Kovalenko »
Born in 1987 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. She graduated from journalism studies at the Shevchenko Kiev State University. Now she studies Documentary Directing at I. Karpenko – Karego National University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kiev. She directed several student film, such as "Olehowska Nostalgia", "This is how it is" and "Grandma Hall. Portrait of an accordion".
AT FESTIVALS:
- IDFA, The Netherlands, 2018 (screening)
- Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2019 (screening)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, The United Kingdom, 2018 (competition)
- Odessa International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2018 (Best European Documentary Award)
- Duhok International Film Festival, Iraq, 2018 (Best International Documentary)
- Listapad Minsk IFF, Belarus, 2018 (Grand Prix of the Best Documentary)
- Verzio FF, Hungary, 2018 (competition)
- 7th International Anthropological Film Festival, Israel, 2018 (competition)
- Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Greece, 2018 (competition)
- Karama International Film Festival, Jordan, 2018 (competition)
- ArtDocFest Russian Open Documentary Film Festival, Russia, 2018 (Special Mention of the Jury)
- DocPoint Helsinki, Finland, 2019 (competition)
- One World IHR Documentary FF, Czech Republic, 2019 (competition)
- Inconvenient Films IDHRFF, Lithuania, 2019 (competition)