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.
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
