My Place Ozerna

Poland2022documentary58'Konkurs polski (2022)

For a lonely protagonist, her journey from London to Ozerna, a small village in Ukraine, where she is to meet her relative, unexpectedly becomes the beginning of her way to recover and achieve closeness with another human being. Both protagonists meet at a difficult period in their lives – aunt Slawa is 87 and misses her late husband, and Karina, her junior by a few decades, cannot find her place in life. Friendship, which surpasses generations or nations is being born between the two lost women in the Ukrainian village.

directed by
Karina Będkowska, portret reżysera
Karina Będkowska

Film director. She graduated with honours in Documentary Filmmaking from Goldsmith University in London and Photography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She participated in the international film workshops Film Spring Open in Krakow and INTERDOC in Serbia as well as the Doc Development and DOC LAB Poland programmes. Her film Tutka was screened at the international festivals Benicia FF in California and Short to the Point in Romania in 2017. She has had photographic exhibitions in England, Denmark and Poland.

cinematography
Karina Będkowska
script
Karina Będkowska
music
Jacaszek
sound
Franciszek Kozłowski
editing
Rafał Małecki
production
Monika Braid (Braidmade Films)
Photo
Kadr z filmu My Place Ozerna