My Grandmother is a Skydiver
Synopsis
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 memory and her own ethnic identity, break the endless cycle of collective trauma and reflect on the meaning of human life.
Schedule
21 November 2025, 15:30 WIB
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Credits
Polina Piddubna
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.
