TO MY GRANDFATHER

Ukraine (Region Poltava), 2026.
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman is left alone.
In the rooms they once shared, life is meant to go on – slowly, gently, wrapped in grief, pain, but also love and strength.
The granddaughter is the author of the film. With this cinematic work, she creates a farewell letter full of love: from the 92-year-old woman to her husband, and from the granddaughter to her grandfather.

Sofia Samoylova

Sofia Samoylova, born in 1990, is a German-Ukrainian artist. She primarily works with film and photography, mostly in the documentary field. Since 2014, she has been documenting the war in Ukrain´s Donbass.
With the photo series Serafima & Jevhen, she told the story of her grandparents and was a finalist for the Israeli Meitar Award, nominated for the German Felix Schöller Peace Prize for Photography, and placed fourth in the Italian Langhe Foto Prize.