Listening to the World
Iva can’t hear the world because of her disability. She and her son Mykyta face the war in Ukraine and are forced to flee to Germany as refugees. In Berlin, Iva gets a Cochlear implantation and the chance to hear again. In a world full of noises, challenges and war, Iva seeks for the way to hear and to be heart.
DOCUMENTARY
length: 90 MINUTES
year of release: 2025
countries of production: UKRAINE, GERMANY, SWEDEN
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY YELLIZAVETA SMITH
DOP VIACHESLAV TSVIETKOV
EDITOR SIMON MOZGHOVYI
SOUND DESIGNER & MUSIC TED KROTKIEWSKI
SOUND MIXER MYKHAILO ZAKUTSKYI
PRODUCERS OLGA BESKHMELNYTSINA, EUGENE RACHKOVSKY (TABOR LMT)
CO-PRODUCERS ANTONIA KILIAN (PINK SHADOW FILMS) MARIO ADAMSON (SYSIFOS FILM)
IN PRODUCTION
SUPPORTED BY SUNDANCE FILMINSTITUTE, HESSENFILM & MEDIEN, SVENKSA FILMINSTITUTET, IMS,
DOCUMENTING UKRAINE, SONS OF RIGOR, DEUTSCHE FILMAKADMEIE, DOCU DAYS UA
Participation in the Beldocs IDFF 2022 market, won the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival Networking award
Participation in Cannes Docs 2022 as part of the Ukrainian section of Docs-in-Progress and won the DAE award from the Documentary Association of Europe
Pitching at Nordisk Panorama 2022 as part of the Ukraine Focus program
Participation in the Odessa International Film Festival as part of the EFM program at Berlinale 2023
Participation in the Visions du Reel Industry 2024 in the VdR-Work in Progress program