Home is 1117 km away
Réalisation
Marta SMERECHYNSKA
Maria, who was forced to leave Ukraine, is seeking a female roommate in Budapest. Talks with potential neighbors about living closely together transition into conversations about the feeling of home and loneliness. When Ukrainian girls visit Maria, the search for a roommate turns into an exchange of personal experiences of the war and displacement.
Réalisé par
Marta SMERECHYNSKA
Photographie
Marta SMERECHYNSKA
Montage
Marta SMERECHYNSKA
Musique
Roman MULENKO
Son
Mariia IVASHCHENKO
Production
DocNomads
Marta SMERECHYNSKA (DocNomads)
Réalisé par
Marta SMERECHYNSKA
Marta Smerechynska (1997) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. She holds academic degrees from I.K. Karpenko-Kary University in Kyiv, La Fémis in Paris, and the DocNomads Erasmus Master’s program in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Her films have been screened at over 30 festivals, including Visions du Réel, Sarajevo Film Festival, DMZ Docs, PÖFF Shorts, and FipaDoc. Marta Smerechynska’s feature-length debut documentary focuses on reconnecting with her sister, who has become a nun, by exploring life in her new home—a remote women’s monastery in the West of Ukraine. Recently, Marta Smerechynska has been focusing on portraying various facets of the Ukrainian wartime experience in her films.
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