2020 | United States | Documentary

Self-portrait with Lev

  • English, Russian english 27 mins
  • Director | Aleksandra Simonova
  • Writer | Aleksandra Simonova
  • Producer | Aleksandra Simonova

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A young woman, who came from Russia to start her PhD at UC Berkeley. She films her life after her son Lev is born in the US. Her American husband takes her to his family in Cambridge (MA). The film tells a story of adaptation of a Russian woman to life in the US in the moment of a dramatic global crisis brought up by the Russian invasion to Ukraine. Her American family embrace her as a new member of the family. However, her appearance with a newborn in the house of a couple of elderly parents shake their everyday life. Two months old Lev brings old memories and unresolved conflicts from the past, which family has to face now.

self-ethnography personal family children