Lida (2022)

LIDA takes place on the day of Lidas 70th birthday This already special day is made more unusual by the recent arrival of her grandson Lev who had immigrated to the United States with his family in 2001 Returning to Ukraine for the first time as an adult Lev documents his grandmother as she tends to the small homestead and prepares for the birthday celebration in the rural village in Ukraine By capturing moments of arduous labor as well as through personal conversation Lev inquires into his grandmothers relationship to her home land and their family