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My Grandmother is a Skydiver

film type animated film, documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2025 runtime 12'52 colour Color animation technique 2D computer animation
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format 5.1 Audiomix original-language Bashkir, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Ukrainian subtitles German, English

Alfyia, a joyful young woman in 1960s Central Asia, is actively parachuting and studying to become a midwife, when she receives an extraordinary phone call from her granddaughter in 2022. She is worried about her grandmother's safety amid the invasion of Ukraine. In this intergenerational conversation across time and space, the granddaughter tries to restore and rethink family memories and her own ethnic identity, break the cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.

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director Polina Piddubna Production Polina Piddubna Script Polina Piddubna Editing Jin Ju Lee Original Score Ilja Gussarov Sound Design Danylo Okulov Animation Polina Piddubna DOP Polina Piddubna film school Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
School
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Production
  • Polina Piddubna
Sales
  • Polina Piddubna
Distribution
  • Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Cristina Marx
  • Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
  • 14482 Potsdam
  • Germany
  • +49 331 6202564
  • http://www.filmuniversitaet.de

Polina Piddubna

Polina Piddubna is an Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist now based in Berlin. She is studying animation at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. In her films she employs surrealism interwoven with satire and social criticism. New works deal with the theme of decolonization.

Filmography
2022 Ach So
2025 My Grandmother is a Skydiver