LIDA
LOGLINE: Filmmaker Lev Omelchenko returns after a decade to his homeland to document his grandmother Lida tend to her homestead in rural Ukraine, on the day of her 70th birthday.
Filmmaker Lev Omelchenko documents his grandmother Lida, as she tends to her homestead in rural Ukraine on the day of her 70th Birthday.
Lev Omelchenko returns to his homeland 17 years after immigrating to Brooklyn, NY with his parents, sister and maternal grandparents. His pilgrimage is inspired by his desire to spend time with his last living grandparent, on the day of her 70th birthday. Her home, which she built by hand with her husband, stands on small plot of land in rural Solonitsa where she has lived and worked her whole life. She now lives alone, tending to the farm animals and her ancestral land to survive in a time of economic and political instability. The film is a day in her life, made unusual by the arrival of her grandson and her 70th year.