Directed by Olga Chernykh • 2023 • Ukraine

Olga Chernykh’s intimate, essayistic documentary examines the war in Ukraine through the eyes of three generations of women from a displaced Donetsk family. The director’s grandmother remains in occupied Donbas, while her mother now works in a Kyiv morgue; the recordings Chernykh makes of their conversations form the basis for a fragmented narrative supplemented by footage from the family archive and news reports from the chaotic present. A Picture to Remember draws out a personal and national history of war and reconstruction, nostalgia and trauma, whose structure reflects the imperfect nature of memory itself.

A PICTURE TO REMEMBER • ФОТО НА ПАМ’ЯТЬ
Written and directed by Olga Chernykh
Cinematography by Olga Chernykh and Yevgenia Bondarenko
Music by Maryana Klochko

In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles

Winner of Best Documentary at the goEast Film Festival 2024