Alter Ego

Filmstill Alter Ego

Alter Ego

Alter Ego
Sonia Leliukh
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany,
Ukraine
2025
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

This both raw and tender work of memory ploughs through reflections, feelings, anecdotes, photos, and drawings, an attempt in cinematic images to capture the grief over a beloved grandfather who fell victim to cancer, make it manageable. Sonia Leliukh takes the liberty of speaking from a deliberately subjective perspective, refusing to tone down her statements with seemingly valid rules of language or etiquette. With her desktop documentary, which seems playful only at first glance, she confronts radical grief with equally radical honesty. By putting the old computer games her grandfather used to distract himself from his pain on screen, she does not only put herself in the role of the terminally ill, but also the audience. When my finger twitches to move the Solitaire cards to the right spot or click on another box at Minesweeper, I am already in the midst of things and must ask myself how I deal with grief, love, or rejection. In the present, but also and especially when the people who inspire these emotions have gone. Sonia Leliukh’s work is a cinematic refusal to allow these feelings to become objects in the sediment of the past.


Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Sonia Leliukh
Cinematographer
Sonia Leliukh
Producer
Sonia Leliukh, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Sound Design
Abonti Mukherjee

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