We invite you to the discussion "Pregnancy and Childbirth in Wartime: Medical Realities, Psychological Trauma and the Search for Solutions", which will take place following the film screening.
Participants:
Vira Tselyk, Senior Midwife at Chernihiv Maternity Hospital;
Maryna Kronhlevska, Director of the film;
Nataliia Leliukh, Obstetrician-Gynaecologist;
Larysa Cheprasova, Midwife and Perinatal Psychologist;
Maryna Marchenko, Co-founder and Head of the NGO Generation of Mothers Lada
Marina Kronhlevska was born in 1988 in the German city of Dresden. She graduated from the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television.
She is the director of the short films That’s How Summer Ended (2013) and In Joy, and Only in Joy (2018), which won the National Competition at the Odesa International Film Festival in 2018. They also won the National Competition at the Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival in 2019.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Maryna has been actively working on documentary stories. She joined the War Archive project and served as head of the witness-interviewing department — an initiative of the Docudays UA festival team focused on documenting war-crimes testimonies. Since its launch, the team has collected more than 950 interviews with people who survived occupation, took part in evacuation efforts, or organized volunteer aid centres.
