Lida

Anna Eborn (2017)

Lida is 81 years old and lives in a dying Swedish settlement in Eastern Ukraine. While she and her little sister Maria were in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia in the 50ties, Lida gave birth to her son Arvid. She has not seen Arvid since 1976, who now lives in St.Petersburg. Maria has, since their release from the camp, stayed in Siberia. The two sisters haven’t seen each other since.

Lida and Maria are two of only six remaining speakers of the Old Swedish language, a soon to be extinct language dating from the 1800s.

Info & Credits

Director
Anna Eborn
Producer
Katja Adomeit/Adomeit Film
Co-producer
David Herdies
Director of Photography
Nadim Carlsen
Sound Design
Philip Nicolai Flindt
Composer
Fredrik Wictorsson
Genre
Documentary
With Support From
Eurimages, The Danish Film Institute, The Swedish Film Institute

Awards and nominations

Jury Price at Tempo Documentary Festival, 2018

International competition Visions du Réel, 2017

Nominated for Nordic: Dox Award, CPH:DOX, 2017

Festivals in selection

Docudays UA, 2018

Bergamo Film Meeting, 2018

Tempo Documentary Festival, 2018

Göteborg Film Festival, 2018

CPH:DOX, 2017

Visions du Réel, 2017

Riga International Film Festival, 2017

Porto/Post/Doc, 2017