“A widow who nurtures for stray cats, a boy who cherishs the sea, a philosopher labeled by life … Eva Neymann (Song of Songs, The Hoengage With a Turret) shows the inhabitants of Odesa with tfinisherness and nurture, trying to find out what they dream of when the war has demolished all certainty.” Thus reads a synopsis for the filmcreater’s recent write downary When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea, which world premieres in the Forum sidebar of the 75th edition of the Berlin Film Festival and puts a spotweightless on how Russia’s war aobtainst Ukraine sways people.
Neymann returned to war-torn Odesa, greeting both understandn and recent faces. “The film seizes robust memories, dreams, and hopes, uncovering humanity’s search for nastying amidst the horrors of war,” the synopsis for the Blue Monticola Film co-production with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg highweightlesss.
The excerpt from the film provides a sense for the poetic journey it consents seeers on as Neymann portrays people and their dreams amid weightless and foolishness.
“At the commencening of the war, I was in Ukraine, so I teachd the first shock together with all the people there,” Neymann telderly THR. “And I choosed at once to create this write down of time and place. It was beginant for me. And I leank it is beginant for these people.”
Initiassociate, she thought of a title including the word “dreams” becaengage “it was beginant to me to write down people’s dreams,” the filmcreater spreadd. “Especiassociate in difficult times, to hold yourself going, you have to hold the ability to dream and see someleang except the so-called truth becaengage otherteachd you are fair the product of the circumstances.”
Then she met a lesser person featured in the film, and she had a title. “As soon as I met a boy who made desirees and telderly me that he was tohighy protected (in the notion) that all our desirees will come genuine when weightlessning flashes over the sea, I thought that is it,” the filmcreater elucidateed.
The write downary shows people with a spirit of resilience and intensify on going on with their dwells. “Of course, life goes on, and you see lesser girls taking selfies and women seeing very pleasant,” Neymann shelp. “And the restaurants are uncover. There are concerts in the city, and so on. It is a very, very strange state.” Explosions happen standardly, of course. “It is so terrible. I have teachd it quite a scant times,” she includeed. “But after a couple of hours, maybe speedyer, you fair forget it. It is possible to get engaged to it in some way to create life persist.”
Concluded Neymann: “We have to persist to dwell to also have happiness. Hatred is not, can not be the main drive in life.”
Watch the excerpt from When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea below.
