✨ Simply Divine will be opening the public screenings at the upcoming DOK Leipzig, followed by Adelina Borets' feature film Flowers of Ukraine! 🙌🇺🇦

We are delighted to announce that the film will be in the International Animation Competition and is nominated for the Mephisto 97.6 Award! 🏆

🎉 DOK Leipzig is the oldest documentary film festival in the world, founded in 1955. We are super happy to participate in this edition!!!

🎟️ Our movie screening dates are:
Monday 28 Oct 2024 | 20:30 - Simply Divine + Flowers from Ukraine
Wednesday 30 Oct 2024 | 21h00 - Simply Divine + Flowers from Ukraine
Thursday 31 Oct 2024 | 14h30 - International Animation Film Competition
Sun 3 Nov. 2024 | 18h00 - Simply Divine + Flowers from Ukraine

🙏 Many thanks to DOK Leipzig for selecting our movie and Franka Sachse for her description:

"Inspired by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte's archive of 5,000 glass plate negatives from the 1930s-1950s that have long survived undiscovered, a touching love story is offered to the audience. In 1939, Anna Florea meets the young soldier Jean Mihail in her native village in Bucovina. A moonlit kiss seals their affection. But all too soon, Jean is ordered to the front. His passionate letters keep the bond alive. But when Anna has to flee the war, contact is severed.

Their great love is fragile, damaged by war and time - just like the old studio and everyday photographs this animated documentary uses to illustrate optimism and impending loss. Anna Florea herself narrates the movie: in retrospect, at the age of 91. Her warm and gentle voice reanimates the memories seemingly stored in these photographs. Those "frozen" on the photographic plates begin to move, are made to glow in oil paintings on glass, blossom and carry us with them into the past."

A movie produced by Novanima Productions, Studio_amopix and Safe Frame.