Description
The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matriarchal—men are present but play secondary roles. The film’s space is filled with rituals: fortune-telling, herb gathering, and bathing. Here, the sacred is intertwined with the mundane. The daughters follow the life paths of their mother, who once traced the steps of the older women in the family.
About the director:
Inna Omelchenko
Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and editor. Born in Armavir in 1991, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2014 and the School of Documentary Film and Theater of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov in 2015. Her debut film Yamaha (2015) won Best Debut and Best Short Film at the national competition of Message to Man IFF and the national film schools’ competition at ‘Listapad’ in Minsk. Her subsequent work, Paper Stars, premiered at IDFA in 2016 and received the Silver Eye award at Jihlava in 2017. The film was also showcased at Message to Man.