Anna Zalevskaya

On Parents’ Saturday, the ancestors’ memorial day, a mother and her son travel in an old Sedan. They have far to go: in a day they have to visit five cemeteries, scattered across the region. From the very beginning nothing goes according to plan.

The dusty roads of Odessa preserve and tangle the traces of many a traveler. Led by the shadow of Kira Muratova and their desire to follow her footsteps, Anya and Gleb set out on a journey to find the keepers of her memory, and the characters of her films. These Odessa encounters connect “reality” to the world of Muratova, where, as we know, everything is bound to repeat itself.