Pushing Boundaries

Program:

Documentary competition

Year:

2021

Country:

Switzerland

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

102’

PUSHING BOUNDARIES accompanies athletes from the Ukrainian Paralympic National Team who have lost their training base in Crimea due to the Russian annexation. They try to adapt to the new historic conditions in their private as well as in their professional lives and to qualify for the next games. The film shows people who grow beyond their physical limits on a daily basis while around them political boundaries are pushed back and forth. And the country they represent at international competitions is experiencing the amputation of its territories.

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Lesia Kordonets

Lesia Kordonets, grew up in a remote border region of Ukraine which was once a western outpost for the UDSSR and now represents the Eastern border of the EU to Ukraine. Director uses her films to process the experience of geopolitical tension. After moving to Switzerland she worked on several short films from there, which have won international awards. In 2020, she graduated from Zurich University of the Arts with an MA in Editing and Directing. PUSHING BOUNDARIES is both, her diploma project and her debut feature film.

Filmography: Balazher. Korrekturen der Wirklichkeit (2013), Die Namenlosen (2011)

Creative team

Director

Lesia Kordonets

Screenplay

Lesia Kordonets

Camera

Lesia Kordonets, Volodymyr Palylyk

Editing

Lesia Kordonets, Gesa Marten

Music

Christoph Scherbaum