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LIDA

By Anna EBORN

Documentary - Completed 2017

Anna Eborn’s portrait of an octogenarian Swedish woman in Ukraine

Festivals
& Awards

Eurasia IFF 2017

Features

CPH:DOX 2017

Nordic:Dox Award

visions du reel 2017

International Competition

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- DENMARK, SWEDEN
- Languages
- SWEDISH, RUSSIAN, UKRANIAN, GERMAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- Anna EBORN
- Writer(s)
- Anna EBORN
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-7151-0000-1-0000-0000-Y
- Producer(s)
- Katja ADOMEIT (Adomeit Film), David HERDIES (Momento Film)
- Synopsis
- LIDA is a modern, poetic, cinematic experience. It is not a conceptual movie nor meant to be consumable in a straight way.
  By blending time and places – a narrative painting is created about a family love that only exist in memories. These are told in a timeless way by the main character Lida and her son and sister, mixing them, so that the characters can communicate with each other, regardless of the miles and hours separating them.
  The film is an impressionistic, dreamy piece about beautiful characters, that span generations and who have lived through war, a war that they aren’t a part of, or involved in, but are, nonetheless, irreversibly affected by. Now they can only be connected to each other through their common memories and the distances between them seem to vanish.
  Lida is an old Babushka, who is the last Old-Swedish speaking person in a former Swedish settlement from the 18th century in Ukraine. LIDA is about the cycle of time and a community with a unique language disappearing.