Waking Up in Silence

Ukraine
2023
Documentary
18 min.

Directors | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Script | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Director of photography | Tobias Blickle
Editing | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Sound designers | Daniel Asadi Faezi, Andrew Mottl
Composer | Anton Baibakov
Producers | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi
Production company | Lotas Films

A summer’s day in a former German military barracks: children forced to flee Ukraine have found refuge here. In their games, they discover military symbols from the past and link them to their present experiences.

 

About the directors:

Mila Zhluktenko (*Kyiv/Ukraine) and Daniel Asadi Faezi (*Schweinfurt/Germany) studied in the documentary department at University of Television and Film Munich.
They collaborated on various films, including The Absence of Apricots, Opera Glasses or Aralkum, which screened at festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastian, and Visions du Réel.

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