My Grandmother is a Skydiver
Polina Piddubna
Germany, 2025, 13 min.
In Ukrainian, Bashqort, Tajik, Russian, Tat with English subtitles.
In 1960s Tajikistan, a skydiver gets a call from her granddaughter in 2022 Ukraine, sparking an intergenerational journey through trauma, memory and identity.
Director's Statement
My Grandmother is a Skydiver is a poetic animated documentary that journeys through time, geography, generations, and cultures to explore themes of life, the sky, knowledge, loss, and war. This film serves as a form of media therapy, providing a space for reflection, healing, and resilience for those directly impacted by conflict. It promotes cultural visibility and advocates for ethical approaches to marginalized narratives. It calls for decolonizing perspectives, unlearning biases, and making space for stories long kept on the margins to emerge into global consciousness and solidarity.
Category: Animation, Documentary, Short.
Themes: Family, Women, World Cinema.
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