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Simple Structures: Films of Docudays UA-2026

Pietà

Authors: Olena Hrom
Ukraine20257'54'’
In original language, available with English subtitles and with audio description (settings in the lower right corner of the video player).
In original language, available with English subtitles and with audio description (settings in the lower right corner of the video player).
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tickets available from 05/06, 19:00

Pietà is a short documentary confession about a mother who has lost her son in war. Through her testimony, silence, everyday gestures, and fragments of memory, an experience of loss is constructed — one that cannot be fully comprehended or expressed in words. The title refers to the classical Christian motif of the Pietà — the Virgin Mary holding the body of Christ after the Crucifixion. In the film, this archetype is reinterpreted within a contemporary Ukrainian context: the mother emerges as an image of Ukraine — wounded, grieving, yet unbroken. Pietà explores maternal love as a form of resilience and memory as a way of preserving the presence of those who are no longer here. A personal story acquires a universal dimension, transforming into a testimony of a time in which grief becomes part of a shared experience and a resistance to forgetting.

Production:

Film Production — Alena Grom

Simple Structures

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