FilmFestival Cottbus
logline
Lera returns to her hometown, where nothing is as it was before.
synopsis
After an argument with her boyfriend a young woman is driving home. There she plays the piano, celebrates, walks through the sunrise. Everything seems normal, but nothing is normal because her home is Kyiv. A tender film about trying to live an ordinary life in the midst of war.
original title
AS IT WAS
international title
AS IT WAS
Country/Countries
Poland, Ukraine
Year
2023
Duration
15 min
screenplay
Anastasiia Solonevych, Damian Kocur
director of photography
Damian Kocur
sound
Tadeusz Chudy, Łukasz Kaczmarski
editing
Damian Kocur
producer
Piotr Steczek
production company
EXA Studio
actor/s
Valeriia Berezovska, Kyrylo Zemlyanyi, Olena Korohod, Sofiia Berezovska
vita
Damian Kocur
Director and cinematographer. A graduate of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and a PhD student at the Film School in Łódź. He is the author of the internationally awarded feature debut "Bread and Salt" (awarded, among others, at festivals in Venice, Cairo, Cottbus, Antalya, Gijon, Bratislava and Gdynia) and several shorts. As a filmmaker, he keeps track of the credibility of emotions on the screen, and considers the authenticity of the characters and their stories to be his most important goal.
vita
Anastasia Solonevych
Anastasia Solonevych is a debut director from Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2020, she graduated from the department of Film and Television Directing at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. As a director, Anastasia has made music videos, one of which won the music video section at the International Prague Film Festival in 2022. Since 2017, she has been working as a 1st AD, as well as in other positions in commercials, feature films and TV series.
