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Simple Structures: Films of Docudays UA-2026

Pietà

Authors: Olena Hrom
Ukraine20257'54'’
In original language, available with English subtitles.
In original language, available with English subtitles.
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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

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