Anastazja Naumenko

A young girl has immigrated. Functioning in a new environment is slowly turning into a routine, and she herself – into a modern Frankenstein’s creation.

Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mum how to use internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via Zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?

A Slavic Firebird, captured by Soviet ghosts, breaks free and finds herself as Ania—a fiery teen living in a Ukrainian town in the 90s. As she struggles to navigate love and desire against all odds, every passionate encounter sets her ablaze, pulling her closer to a predestined rebirth. Haunted by captors desperate to steal her spark and revive their crumbling myths, Ania moves through village houses, underground clubs, and football matches, crossing the raw, awkward terrain of self-discovery. As she battles for her freedom, the past tightens its grip, threatening to consume her—but from the ashes of old worlds, a new future is rising.

A young girl has immigrated. Functioning in a new environment is slowly turning into a routine, and she herself – into a modern Frankenstein’s creation.

Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mum how to use internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via Zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?

Nastia, who has lived abroad for years, starts to teach her mum how to use internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. Can an intimacy regained via Zoom be a turning point for the future relationship between two adults?

A Slavic Firebird, captured by Soviet ghosts, breaks free and finds herself as Ania—a fiery teen living in a Ukrainian town in the 90s. As she struggles to navigate love and desire against all odds, every passionate encounter sets her ablaze, pulling her closer to a predestined rebirth. Haunted by captors desperate to steal her spark and revive their crumbling myths, Ania moves through village houses, underground clubs, and football matches, crossing the raw, awkward terrain of self-discovery. As she battles for her freedom, the past tightens its grip, threatening to consume her—but from the ashes of old worlds, a new future is rising.