VITA - Voices of Life and Victory
2024
Documentary Music Culture international Women in film Denmark Scandinavia Ukraine
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Synopsis
The film tells the story of prominent Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Poleva, who fled her home in Kyiv during the first days of the Russian invasion. Like the other Ukrainian female musicians which you meet in the film, she is trying to find herself in a difficult time and maintain a creative existence far away from home.

The musicians' accounts and the composer's messages are reinforced by violent war images from Ukraine. The simple yet strong notes connect the women's stories and become the focal point of the documentary.

The setting of the film is Vemmetofte Monastery - a historic refuge for women in Denmark during 300 years. Here, the women gather to immerse themselves in Vita Poleva's beautiful musical universe, take a break from the war and thank the locals for their hospitality by performing a concert.

The tender and vivid accounts, filmed by the renowned Danish documentarian Torben Skjødt Jensen, cannot leave the viewer without reflections. Ghita Beckendorff's dynamic editing of the film, combined with the sharp black-and-white images of photographer Jan Grarup, shows the contrast between the atrocities of the war in Ukraine and the beauty of the silence in the Danish province.

What fate awaits the Ukrainian women in exile? What will happen to the lives and careers of composer Victoria Vita Poleva, soprano Mariana Golovko-Danchenko, cellist Zhanna Marchinska and many other performing artists? When will the forced separation from the motherland end? When
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