Kittens
Zhanna Ozirna
Ukraine
Two girls in an old Lviv apartment start a casual conversation about their common future. In the midst of the traditional Ukrainian life remnants the usual dreams about the future stumble upon the unbreakable social norms and customs. The sincere conversation turns into a global question: can we afford the freedom at least in our private lives without having to substitute it with pets?
Zhanna Ozirna (1986) is a Ukrainian director and a screenwriter. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents 2020. The development of her feature debut Ground Zero was supported by Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and Film State Agency, the project has taken part in such screenwriting workshops as ScripTeast, Pustnik and co-production markets such as La Fabrique Cinema, Cinemart IFFR and Marché du Film. Her last short fiction THE ADULT (2019) was presented in the special program ‘The State of a New Generation’ within Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. In 2017 she won the Oppose Othering grant program within goEast Film Festival (Wiesbaden, Germany) with her short doc BOND, which in 2018 got an award as Best Ukrainian film (86 IFF) and Jury Special Mention (Odesa IFF).
Дорослий (2019); Жінки і війна (2010)
