Nicole J. Adelman talked to director Kateryna Ruzhyna about her short documentary Avitaminosis, a self-portrait of a young Ukrainian filmmaker searching for liberation in Georgia, awarded by the Institute of Documentary Film at Ji.hlava IDFF 2022.
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Avitaminosis
Self-portrait of Kateryna - young filmmaker from Ukraine living in Prague. The story is set back to the second covid lockdown when she had no choice but to work in a fraudulent call center to survive financially. Depression behind all these events leads her to impulsively move to Georgia in search for liberation.
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