Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means „cold place". The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the post woman Maria and the biologist Nelya. Surrounded by mountains they cope with social reality and loneliness. The colder the Carpathian winter gets, the more human warmth the film team finds. The film portrays an unknown place in the middle of Europe, where people have to decide daily between leaving and staying.
2022 Audience Award & DEFA Sponsoring Prize – 65 DOK Leipzig Audience Award - Duisburger Filmwoche Best Feature Documentaty – FILMZ Mainz 2023 5 FIPADOC, Biarritz 52 sehnsüchte – Int. Student FF Best Documentary – Achtung Berlin FF 38 DOK.fest Munich Millenium DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY dokKa Karlsruhe nominated by DOK Leipzig for Doc Alliance Award 2023 17 FSFF – Fünf Seen Filmfestival YIDFF Yamagata, Japan ASTRA FF Sibiu, Romania 21 doclisboa 40 Kassel Dokfest FF Radstadt
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