She digs up daddy issues—literally. This 21-minute fever dream doesn't flinch.
In a cemetery on the ocean shore, teenager Aïda follows her desire to bring to life her long dead father.
Cinematography
Salt-bleached cemetery frames that swallow light whole.
Acting
Chernobai's stare could stop your heart—then restart it wrong.
Sound
Dream pop score that lulls you into complicity.
Director
Olaa Zhyzhko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Emerging from Ukrainian cinema during ongoing conflict, the film weaponizes intimate horror as national allegory—private graves mirror collective unburied trauma.
The 21-minute runtime isn't constraint but strategy: Zhyzhko denies viewers the relief of feature-length processing, leaving Aïda's possession of our attention as complete as her possession of the narrative.
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