- An essayistic account of a family's long journey through the war. It shows the search for a way to handle terrible and recurring losses experienced by generations of a Ukrainian family, told from a 1st person perspective.
- Olga spent her childhood in Donetsk in the 1990s, before moving to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Her grandma stayed in the Donbas region, which were occupied by pro-Russian rebels in 2014. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the ensuing war, only increased the sense of distance between Olga and her grandmother. A Picture to Remember is an essay-style account of the war from the perspective of three generations of women. There are frequent video calls between Olga, her mother (a pathologist working in a morgue, where it feels surprisingly safe during bomb attacks) and her grandmother. Recordings of their conversations are interspersed with photos and videos from the family archive, news reports and collective images that portrays Ukrainian history of the last century. The result is a kaleidoscopic and personal film. Traveling fluidly through time, it connects the current violence in Donbas with the destruction there during the World WarII - as related by Olga's grandmother. A sense of absence and loss prevails throughout.
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By what name was A Picture to Remember (2023) officially released in Canada in English?
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