Three Women

by Maksym Melnyk
  • 2021 Maksym Melnyk
  • 2022 Meret Madörin
  • 2022 Meret Madörin
  • 2022 Meret Madörin

    Synopsis

    Somewhere in the Carpathians between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland lies the village of Stuzhytsia. In Ukrainian the name of the village means „cold place". The film tells the stories of three women: the farmer Hanna, the post woman Maria and the biologist Nelya. Surrounded by mountains they cope with social reality and loneliness. The colder the Carpathian winter gets, the more human warmth the film team finds. The film portrays an unknown place in the middle of Europe, where people have to decide daily between leaving and staying.

    Festivals

    2022
    Audience Award & DEFA Sponsoring Prize – 65 DOK Leipzig
    Audience Award - Duisburger Filmwoche
    Best Feature Documentaty – FILMZ Mainz
    2023
    5 FIPADOC, Biarritz
    52 sehnsüchte – Int. Student FF
    Best Documentary – Achtung Berlin FF
    38 DOK.fest Munich
    Millenium DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY
    dokKa Karlsruhe
    nominated by DOK Leipzig for Doc Alliance Award 2023
    17 FSFF – Fünf Seen Filmfestival
    YIDFF Yamagata, Japan
    ASTRA FF Sibiu, Romania
    21 doclisboa
    40 Kassel Dokfest
    FF Radstadt

    Cast and Crew

    Director

    Maksym Melnyk

    Producer

    Andrea Wohlfeil, Maksym Melnyk

    Score

    Maksym Melnyk

    Sound

    Roman Pogorzelski

    Editor

    Jannik Eckenstaler

    DoP

    Florian Baumgarten, Meret Madörin