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Leleka

2025 · 91 min

A slow, dreamlike drift through grief and war, blending diary intimacy with blurred memory, leaving you quietly haunted.

Directed by: Harald Hutter
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Olga Kviatkovska, Margaux Dauby

Overview: Haunted by the ongoing war in Ukraine, Sasha, a Ukrainian sculptor living in Paris, creates a work in memory of her late grandmother and journeys home to honor her. Accompanied by her Belgian friend Margaux, who carries an old Bolex camera, Sasha moves through a landscape where dreams and reality begin to blur, while pages from her diary reveal her innermost feelings.

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Directed by: Harald Hutter
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Olga Kviatkovska, Margaux Dauby

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
memory
war
isolation
identity
Places: big city
countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: drama, documentary
Directed by: Harald Hutter
Written by: Harald Hutter
Starring: Olga Kviatkovska, Margaux Dauby
Music: Eduardo Manzanares-Nyul
Cinematography: Alex Nevill
Runtime: 91 min
Country: Canada, France, Spain, Ukraine, United States of America
Languages: English, Ukrainian, French

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