Directing
In a darkened room, a flickering television goes black and familiar spaces begin to overlap, revealing the quiet unraveling of human connection across diverging realities.
Sami culture in the Soviet Union and today's Russia is a source of life tests and struggle. The film moves in the free-flowing memory tracks of a small indigenous people and tries to create a common memory image of the past 100 years from the diversity of the protagonists. The focus of the film narrative is the Russian territory of their homeland "Lapland", which is now divided between four countries. Grandmother of Zoya Mikhailovna was born in Finnish territory. In 1937, this was sufficient reason to upset the father of the little Zoya. Together with Zoya 18 Sami people of Kola Peninsula recall their past life memories in film. The past and the present flow into each other. However, you can feel a huge gap between "today" and "yesterday".
From liveliness to rigidity—war scars the city and distorts the faces of its inhabitants until a sunflower becomes a symbol of hope. A digital, AI-assisted collage of scenes that oscillate between fear and resistance.
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