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POLISH TITLE: W ZAWIESZENIU
Russia's invasion of Ukraine finds Alina in Irpien, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a cast after recent surgery. She manages to escape with her cat from a bombed and cut off city in one of the last evacuation groups. She reaches a cottage in a nearby village where her parents are stuck. For the first weeks they try to live normally. Her mother conducts online classes, her father takes care of his cats and the animals in the neighborhood, Alina records current events with her camera. However, the front is getting closer and closer, and they have to make a decision – to stay or to run away? When the neighbors leave their homes, Alina and her parents, under the cover of the night, hurry to pack. At the very last minute, the father decides to stay...
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 70'
- YEAR:
- 2024
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Alina Maksimenko
- SCRIPT:
- Alina Maksimenko
- DOP:
- Alina Maksimenko
- EDITOR:
- Feliks Mirosław Mamczur
- SOUND:
- Joanna Napieralska, Serhii Chegodayev
- PRODUCTION:
- Filip Marczewski
- 40th Warsaw Film Festival (2024, Poland), 2024 (screening)
- Doclisboa International Film Festival (2024, Portugal), 2024 (screening)
- DOK Leipzig (2024, Germany), 2024 (screening)
- Cork International Film Festival (2024, Ireland, 2024 (screening)
- 19. Ethnocineca, International Documentary Film Festival, 2025, Austria, 2025 (screening)
- Freiburger Filmforum - Festival of Transcultural Cinema, 2025, Germany, 2025 (screening)
- The Women of War Film Festival (WoWFF), 2025, South Korea, 2025 (screening)
- Bogota Film Festival, 2025, Colombia, 2025 (screening)
- Visions du Réel International Film Festival (2024, Switzerland), 2024 (competition)
- Millenium Docs Against Gravity (Poland 2024), 2024 (competition)
- 53. Lubuskie Film Summer, 2024, Poland, 2024 (Golden Grape at the Documentary Feature competition)
- DMZ Docs International Documentary Film Festival (2024, South Korea), 2024 (Grand Prize)
- DokuBaku International Film Festival (2024, Azerbaijan), 2024 (competition)
- Doc Alliance Award 2024, 2024 (Nomination)
- Ji.hlava (2024, Czech Republic), 2024 (competition)
- European Film Academy 2024, 2024 (Nominations to Best Documentary Feature & Best Film)
- Trieste Film Festival, 2025, Italy, 2025 (competition)
- BIDF - Budapest International Documentary Festival, 2025, Hungary, 2025 (Special Mention)
- Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)
- IDFF ArtDocFest, 2025, Latvia, 2025 (competition)
- Neisse Film Festival, 2025, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, 2025 (competition)
- 22nd International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays, 2025, Ukraine, 2025 (competition)
- ONE SHOT International Short Film Festival, 2025, Armenia, 2025 (Best Film Award)
- Kyiv Critics's Week, 2025, Ukraine, 2025 (Nomination for the Ukrainian Film Critics Award)
- Rabat International Author Film Festival, 2025, Morocco, 2025 (competition)
- Polish Film Festival Los Angeles, 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)
- Polish Film Festival Los Angeles, 2025, USA, 2025 (competition)
- 11. Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival, 2025, Greece, 2025 (competition)
- 18. Jaipur International Film Festival, 2026, India, 2026 (competition)