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We Have Never Met

Experimental film

Salzburg Summer Academy

Ukraine, Austria 2023 

5 minutes

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Credits
director, photography, editing: Zoya Laktionova

producer: Zoya Laktionova

starring: Oksana Karpovych

soundmix: Mykhailo Zakutskyi

creative guidance: Anna Daučíková, Marlies Pöschl 

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An attempt by the director to delve into the nature of sexuality and relationships with her friend in order to understand what their experience together was for them.

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This work was filmed in Sicily, Italy and edited at Anna Daučíková,'s course Fragility and Resilience: Queering Strategies Revisited at the Salzburg Summer Academy.

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Filmfestivals:

2024 - Beast IFF, Porto (Portugal)

2024 - Mezipatra, Prague (Czech)

2024 - goEast Film Festival, Wiesbaden (Germany) 

2024 - Sunny Bunny, Kyiv (Ukraine)

2023 - WIZ-ART LISFF, Lviv (Ukraine)

2023 - Queer Film Festival Leipzig (Germany)

2023 - Post Porn Film Festival Warsaw (Poland)

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Exhibitions

Salzburg Summer Academy (Austria)

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Screenings

2024 - place to be naked - Datsuijo Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)

2023 - Ukraine: Queering and survival - La maison de l'ours, Paris (France)

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     Zoya Laktionova is a filmmaker, editor, visual artist  - was born in Mariupol (Ukraine) in 1984.  She uses moving images, photography, and texts in her works. In her artistic practice, she adopts micro-history, auto-ethnography and creative storytelling to unfold the complexity of greater events.

(c) Zoya Laktionova 2026

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