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Everything Needs to Live (Все має жити)

Production Status
Сompleted
Year of starting production
2024
Release Date
2024
Country(ies) of (co)production
Ukraine, Poland
Languages
Ukrainian, Russian
Duration
70’
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When world around plunges into darkness, Anna decides to save most vulnerable onesanimals. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Anna has been rescuing injured and abandoned animals, with her motto: Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world!

From an early age, Anna loved animalsshe taught biology at school, worked at the zoo, where she proved to have a unique bond with animals. At the age of 40, she started to pursue a career as a powerlifter and soon became a multiple world champion and the "strongest woman in the world". Using the power of social media, Anna could influence her reality even more effectively. She campaigned for animal rights, founded animal shelters, searched for new families for dozens of stray animals. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, even though the world around her seemed to have collapsed, Anna did not give up!

CREW:
Сo-production: Olena Yakovitska
Script: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andriy Lytvynenko
DOP: Ivan Selistran, Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Sofiia Buhrii
Sound: Michal Fojcik
Music: TUMULT
Production:
Funding:
Already engaged financial partners and funds: Aura Films (Poland), Canal+ Polska S.A. (Poland), Polish Film Institute (Poland), Lena Yakovitska (Ukraine), Filmboost Docudays.UA & Deutsche Filmakademie (Ukraine & Germany)
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Festivals

Krakow Film Festival (Polish Producers Alliance Award, Audience Award, 2024) International Human Rights Documetary Film Festival Docudays.UA (Grand Prix in Rights Now! Competition, Audience Award, 2024)

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