Searching for the real in the world of the virtual, motivated by an urge to exteriorize the feeling of loss and grief.

Kitchen.Blend

In a painful conversation, fifty-year-old Lilia speaks of her mental trauma as a result of her parents’ constant disputes during her childhood, while her mother justifies the lack of love by the strict frames of a totalitarian society.

Sensitive Material

The film depicts rather carefree times in Ukraine and is set in 2005-2006, when people still enjoyed questionnaires and home parties instead of social networks, played in bands instead of founding startups, embraced their youth instead of going through horrors of war. That period of Ukraine’s history has not been represented much on screen and the resurrection of videos that documented life as it is with no staging shows human nature authentically barefaced.