Written Down as Father

synopsis

She was one year old when she first lost her father. He left her mother and never came back to them. Now she's an adult, living in Prague, afraid she'll never see him. When he left her as a child, she doesn't remember ever seeing him. In this documentary diary, we follow the spoken and unspoken correspondence between an abandoned daughter and a father defending his homeland.

“Ukraine's relationship with Russia is like the relationship with an ex-boyfriend you broke up with in 1991, when Ukraine declared independence, but you accidentally left the key to your apartment at his place.”

Source: AMU

biography

Dariia Kovalchuk (2003) was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. In 2014, she moved to Kiev, where she studied documentary film at the local university. In 2022, she participated in the academic mobility program at FAMU, where she is now continuing her studies at the Department of Documentary Filmmaking.

more about film

director:	Dariia Kovalchuk
producer:	Nela Frauenbergova, Lenka Medová
editing:	Adam Barbora
sound:	Adam Koniuk