Sadece Bir Gece
Katya is a Ukrainian director originally from Sevastopol. She is fleeing from war for the second time. In 2014, Russians occupied her home in Crimea, so she moved to Kyiv. Then, in 2022, Katya flees f…
Sadece Bir Gece
Katya is a Ukrainian director originally from Sevastopol. She is fleeing from war for the second time. In 2014, Russians occupied her home in Crimea, so she moved to Kyiv. Then, in 2022, Katya flees from Kyiv to the Czech Republic due to a new Russian military attack on her country.The director settles in Prague, having everything for a peaceful and pleasant life, but she cannot overcome the feeling of losing her home. Katya never unpacks her suitcase, hoping to return soon. However, time passes, and the war does not end. Katya comes to realize that being a refugee means losing not only a physical home but also friends who are nearby, cherished belongings, and places she loved to visit. It's about learning to live anew. The director faces many difficult questions: how to find a home when you've lost it twice? What is home, and how many homes can fit into our lives? To find these answers, she embarks on a long expedition. Katya travels 8,525 kilometers to inquire about the meaning of life and the search for home in children who have suffered from the war. Because they are the ones who continue to live their lives despite everything. It is the children who tell her how to make friends in a new country: "Tim always brought a lot of food to school. And I brought less food. And that's how we became friends."(Eva, 9 years old) How to maintain humor:"I taught my friend the word 'poop.' And now she says that Russia is poop." (Eva, 9 years old) How to cheer up those who are sad: "She really loves cucumbers. So I give her a cucumber. And to cheer me up, you need a huge tomato."(Danya, 5 years old) How to support adults when hundreds of rockets and drones fly overhead. "Endure, patience polishes you." (Marta, 10 years old) During the journey, Katya tries to piece together her home and her psychological state like a puzzle. And one day, in Irpin, in the kitchen of 6-year-old Vira, Katya realizes that she doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, when she will see her family again, or if she can return home. But everything she can do is learn to appreciate the simple things that surround her right now. Home is where you are - that's what the children taught Katya. If you can find home within ourselves, no terrorist country can fully take it away.
Sadece Bir Gece
Romance
Film Details
Katya is a Ukrainian director originally from Sevastopol. She is fleeing from war for the second time. In 2014, Russians occupied her home in Crimea, so she moved to Kyiv.
Then, in 2022, Katya flees from Kyiv to the Czech Republic due to a new Russian military attack on her country.The director settles in Prague, having everything for a peaceful and pleasant life, but she cannot overcome the feeling of losing her home. Katya never unpacks her suitcase, hoping to return soon. However, time passes, and the war does not end.
Katya comes to realize that being a refugee means losing not only a physical home but also friends who are nearby, cherished belongings, and places she loved to visit. It's about learning to live anew. The director faces many difficult questions: how to find a home when you've lost it twice? What is home, and how many homes can fit into our lives? To find these answers, she embarks on a long expedition.
Katya travels 8,525 kilometers to inquire about the meaning of life and the search for home in children who have suffered from the war. Because they are the ones who continue to live their lives despite everything. It is the children who tell her how to make friends in a new country: "Tim always brought a lot of food to school.
And I brought less food. And that's how we became friends."(Eva, 9 years old) How to maintain humor:"I taught my friend the word 'poop.' And now she says that Russia is poop." (Eva, 9 years old) How to cheer up those who are sad: "She really loves cucumbers. So I give her a cucumber.
And to cheer me up, you need a huge tomato."(Danya, 5 years old) How to support adults when hundreds of rockets and drones fly overhead. "Endure, patience polishes you." (Marta, 10 years old) During the journey, Katya tries to piece together her home and her psychological state like a puzzle. And one day, in Irpin, in the kitchen of 6-year-old Vira, Katya realizes that she doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, when she will see her family again, or if she can return home.
But everything she can do is learn to appreciate the simple things that surround her right now. Home is where you are - that's what the children taught Katya. If you can find home within ourselves, no terrorist country can fully take it away..