Anastasia Solonevych
Directing
Biography
Anastasia Solonevych is a director from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020, she graduated from the department of Film and Television Directing at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2017, she has been working as a 1st AD, as well as in other positions in commercials, feature films and TV series. In 2023, she made her debut as a co-director of a short film selected for the competition section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Known For
Lera has been living in Berlin for almost a year after the start of the war in Ukraine. Lera does not feel well in Berlin and makes an impulsive decision to go to Kyiv, for the first time during the war. On the way to Kyiv, she learns that her family is not in Kyiv, and will come only the next day. Therefore, she meets her friend Kyryl, with whom she spends the day, as she used to before the war. In the morning, Lera meets her mother and sister, and finally feels at home. But she still doubts whether she will stay in Kyiv or go back to Berlin.
As It Was
During the summer of 2022, Anna and Valeriia, two estranged Ukrainian step-sisters, meet again at a military training camp in Germany. Anna works as a translator, and Valeriia joins the exercises as a soldier before deployment to the front. Anna knows that this may be their last chance to reunite and feel like the family they have never been.