Supported project
A PICTURE TO REMEMBER
FESTIVALS

- Director: Olga Chernykh
- Scriptwriter: Olga Chernykh
- Countries: Ukraine / France / Germany
- Genre: Documentary
- Country of shooting: Ukraine / Bulgaria
- Language: Ukrainian / Russian
- Duration: 90 min
SYNOPSIS
A Picture to Remember follows a family from Donetsk – a thriving industrial city in the Donbass region. In 2014, the war breaks out, shatters their daily life, and forces them, like so many others, to flee. In February 2022, after they took refuge in Kiev, danger forced them into a second exile. A permanent feeling of loss has now been tormenting them for years.
CONTACT
Ukrainian producer
Real Pictures
Regina Maryakovska Davidzon
rmdavidzon@gmail.com
Producer from a contributing country
LuFilms (France)
Olivier Amiel
laurenceueb@gmail.com
AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR FINALISATION: 58 500 €
Date of the decision : May 15th 2023
THE DIRECTOR

Olga Chernykh was born in Donetsk in 1990. In 2017 she graduated with an MA from the Cinematography department of the Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko – Karyi University. She has taken part in international workshops and residency programs such as the Aristoteles Workshop in Romania and CinemaAmbulante in Italy as well as in the International Papaya Young Directors competition in Poland where she was awarded a Special prize for her short video Express Your Taste. Her filmography includes documentaries such as The Flood That No One Saw, Real Jazz, Hives Of My Heart, and Generation’91 – which was part of the official selection of the DOXA film festival (Canada) – but also short films such as Family Trip, You’d better say I DO, or Coldness.
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