Flowers of Ukraine

Program:

Documentary competition

Year:

2024

Country:

Poland

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

70’

A strong, independent and anarchist woman full of humor sets out to protect her piece of land against all odds. Initially fighting off developers, Natalia's struggle becomes even more existential with Russia's attack on Ukraine. The film is a portrait of a woman who never gives up and brings to the viewers the sense of hope.

Schedule

Adelina Borets

Emerging female director, graduated from the Warsaw Film School in directing and the Wajda School in screenwriting. At the moment, she is finishing her master’s degree in arts at the Kieslowski Film School in Katowice. Her films were nominated, awarded, or screened at numerous events, including the Warsaw Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Kyiv's Critics Week and the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. For her last fiction short EDEN HOUSE she won the main prize at Węgiel Film Festival: a service of one of the best polish post-production houses, DI Factory, that were used in the post-production of FLOWERS OF UKRAINE.

Filmography: Eden House (2021), The Wormwood Star (2018)

Creative team

Director

Adelina Borets

Screenplay

Adelina Borets

Camera

Bohdan Rozumnyi, Bohdan Borysenko

Editing

Agata Cierniak, Mateusz Wojtynski

Music

DakhaBrakha