A Picture to Remember
7.3
An essay-style account of the war from the perspective of three generations of women - those of the director, her mother, and that of her grandmother. Originally from Donetsk - an industrial city in eastern Ukraine - the family was uprooted in 2014 when the Russian war against Ukraine first commenced. By 2022, the same enemy once again began knocking on the door of their new home -which was now in Kyiv- and once again destroyed everything that the family had worked so hard to rebuild. Thrown into the limbo of exile, the director (she is also the narrator of the film) dives into a kaleidoscope of memories and chronicles both her personal and collective familial search for something to hold on to amid these turbulent times.
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Olga Chernykh Director · Katarzyna Boniecka Editor
First release November 8, 2023 · Produced in France, Germany, Ukraine · Languages English, Russian, Ukrainian
Production
Real Pictures
Production
France · Germany · Ukraine
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Фото на пам'ять
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
English · Russian · Ukrainian
Release dates
Netherlands · November 8, 2023
Premiere · IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
No release date listed for United States.
Bulgaria
October 8, 2025 · Premiere · OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival: Bulgarian Edition
Canada
April 27, 2025 · Premiere · Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival
Czechia
October 25, 2024 · Premiere · Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Sweden
January 31, 2024 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Ukraine
June 5, 2024 · Premiere · Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival
June 17, 2024 · Premiere · Mykolaichuk OPEN Audience Film Festival
September 9, 2025 · Premiere · OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival: Ukrainian Edition
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