Germany, Ukraine, 2025, 10 min.,Ukrainian, Bashqort, Tajik, Russian, Tatar with English and Bulgarian subtitles, dir. Polina Piddubna
In 1960s Tajikistan, a skydiver gets a call from her granddaughter in 2022 Ukraine, sparking an intergenerational journey through trauma, memory and identity.
Screenwriter: Polina Piddubna
Music: Danylo Okulov
Production: Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Director’s Biography:
Filmmaker, artist and activist with Ukrainian and Central Asian Tatar and Bashqort roots. Polina was born and raised in Kharkiv, started her career in Kyiv, and has been living in Berlin since 2019. She has a bachelor’s degree in animation and is currently doing her master’s as an animation director at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam.
Ah So / 2022, My Grandmother is a Skydiver / 2025