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Three Windows on South West

Three Windows on South West
Mariia Ponomarova
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Ukraine,
Netherlands
2023
8 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian
Subtitles: 
English

In 2002, the filmmaker moved into an apartment on the 15th floor of a Kyiv high-rise. She was twelve at the time. Today, from the safe distance of another country, she talks to people who remember the flat and the time spent together. Coming-of-Age, the love of cinema, a sense of community and the erotic charge of individual moments combine to create an image of missing home and intimacy. With every memory, we zoom a little out of the still image on screen: three windows facing southwest, a balcony facing southeast, a rooftop protected from view, a high-rise panorama. The warm and personal gaze at the sky and houses of Kyiv is mirrored in the cold attentiveness of international war reporting.

Jan Künemund

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Director
Mariia Ponomarova
Script
Mariia Ponomarova
Editor
Mariia Ponomarova
Producer
Mariia Ponomarova
Sound Design
Sergio González Cuervo
World Sales
Lucila Riggio
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Oleksii Isakov