SECOND LIFE

DRUGIE ŻYCIE

Iryna Myenova decided to go to the transhuman company to sign a contract to froze her 98-year old mother. This process should happen when heart stops beating but the brain is still alive for a few minutes. She did that in hope that in the future technology would be so advanced that it will be possible to unfroze her mother and bring her back to life, later even bring her young again. Iryna also signed a contract to freeze herself also after her death. She did that to start new, better relationship with her mother, who was extremely strict and selfish. She didn’t allow Iryna to have any friends or lovers, so her daughter lived her whole life with rough  mother, who was the closest person to her.  Right now Iryna waits for death and to be frozen and doing plans for the future with her mother.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: RUSSIA
  • Running time: 19
  • Year: 2015
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Eugeniusz Pankov

Script: Eugeniusz Pankov

DOP: Nadezhda Kostygina

Editing: Cecylia Pacura

Sound: Lucyna Wielopolska

Production company: Lodz Film School

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About the director:

Eugeniusz Pankov

Eugeniusz Pankov

Eugene Pankov – born in 1988 in Rivne (Ukraine). Student of directing departament at Lodz Film School. Since 4 years old he lices in Poland. Writer and director of seven short films and laureate of international film awards (i.a. Grand Prix at Osenkinofest in Moscov, Best Documentary Student Short Award at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards).

At festivals:

16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (competition)

9th Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2016 (competition)

Alcine 46 - Festival de Cine de Alcala de Henares, Spain, 2016 (competition)

25th dokumentART, Germany, 2016 (competition)

10th Cinema Verite International Documentary Film Festival, Iran, 2016 (competition)

11th MiradasDoc, Canary Islands, 2017 (competition)

Encounters - 23rd Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2017 (screening)

Beast International Film Festival, Portugal, 2017 (competition)

10th Wiz-Art - Lviv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine, 2017 (competition)

59th Festival dei Popoli, Italy, 2018 (competition)

Cineglobe, Switzerland, 2019 (competition)