Leonid Burlaka's photographic films and footage spanning decades chronicle his life as a Ukrainian filmmaker. Discovered at a dacha near Odessa, the documentary preserves his legacy from obscurity.
A young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting.—Mariia Ponomarova