Ptitsa

Year
2022
Country
Poland, Ukraine
Duration
31’
Director
Alina Maksimenko
Set during the pandemic, the story unfolds in the family home of two women, a mother and her adult daughter. In one part of the house is the mother's music school, which she runs online. She is a piano teacher, a strong and organised woman who only has contact with her students, and therefore has an endless sea of children around her. The other part of the building houses the daughter's painting studio. The two worlds rarely come into contact with one another, constituting a metaphor for human loneliness. Ultimately, however, the protagonists are brought together by the story of the death of Katya, the daughter of their friend Inna.
CREW:
Director: Alina Maksimenko
Cinematographer: Alina Maksimenko
Sound: Alina Maksimenko
Production
Wajda Studio (Filip Marczewski, Katarzyna Madaj-Kozłowska), Wajda School, Alina Maksimenko
Director
Alina Maksimenko

Alina Maksimenko is an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is a painter, film director and director of photography. 

During 1985-1988 she studied at the T.G Shevchenko Art School. In 1993 she graduated from the M. Boychuk Art College in Kyiv. In 2014 she showed her first video installation at the Kyiv Arsenal. She also finished the documentary film directing speciality at the Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute in 2019 under Serhiy Bukovsky. She graduated from the DOK PRO educational programme at the Wajda School in 2020. She has been a member of the BG-Art. Union of Artists since 2001, and a member of the Union of Painters of Ukraine since 2003. The director lives and works in Ukraine. She left Irpin during the occupation and returned to the city when it was liberated. Now she is shooting her second documentary project, a feature entitled Stitched Steps
Hall «GEGEMON»
Zhovten cinema
Kostiantynivska St, 26
Original language with Ukrainian subtitles
By tickets
Saturday
10 June 2023
13:10
22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin
DOCU/SHORT
On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Ania Na
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Tale of the three flames
DOCU/SHORT
Tale of the three flames
Year
2023
Country
Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland
Director
Juliette Menthonnex
Duration
21’
DOCU/SHORT
Walk
DOCU/SHORT
Walk
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine, Georgia
Director
Daria Zhuravel
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
DOCU/SHORT
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Director
Karolina Uskakovych
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
Our home
DOCU/SHORT
Our home
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Anna Yutchenko
Duration
18’
DOCU/SHORT
New Facades
DOCU/SHORT
New Facades
Year
2023
Country
USA, Hungary
Director
Kay Hannahan
Duration
9’
DOCU/SHORT
Under the Sign of Anchor
DOCU/SHORT
Under the Sign of Anchor
Year
2024
Country
Ukraine
Director
Taras Spivak
Duration
28’
DOCU/SHORT
Incident
DOCU/SHORT
Incident
Year
2023
Country
USA
Director
Bill Morrison
Duration
30’
DOCU/SHORT
Position
DOCU/SHORT
Position
Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Director
Yurii Pupirin
Duration
27’
DOCU/SHORT
The Kiosk
DOCU/SHORT
The Kiosk
Year
2023
Country
Poland
Director
Daniel Stopa
Duration
40’
DOCU/SHORT
Testudo Hermanni
DOCU/SHORT
Testudo Hermanni
Year
2023
Country
Austria, USA
Director
G. Anthony Svatek
Duration
7’
DOCU/SHORT
Near Light
DOCU/SHORT
Near Light
Year
2023
Country
Italy
Director
Niccolò Salvato
Duration
15’
DOCU/SHORT
The Most Beautiful Corner in the World
DOCU/SHORT
The Most Beautiful Corner in the World
Year
2023
Country
Slovakia
Director
Robo Mihály
Duration
26’
DOCU/SHORT
Kathmandu Monsoon
DOCU/SHORT
Kathmandu Monsoon
Year
2022
Country
Nepal
Director
Ngima Gelu Sherpa
Duration
18’
DOCU/SHORT