Luxembourg City Film Festival

Memory

Credits

Country :

France-The Netherlands

Year :

2025

Director :

Vladlena Sandu

Version :

vostEN

Duration :

98 minutes

Format :

digital

Documentary Competition | With the director in attendance

More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Following her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena (the director herself) leaves Crimea to settle in Grozny, Chechnya, fully unaware that her life will soon be upended by war.

Yet however impoverished or horrifying the circumstances it describes, Sandu’s film is lavish in visual imagination, bursting with lyrical, allegorical, political, even quasi-mythological imagery…

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