When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea
Asian Premiere
Eva Neymann Ukraine, Germany 2025 124 min PG13 (Some Mature Content)
An ethereal portrait of Odesa and its travellers, cats, labourers, artists and children who go on dreaming and surviving amidst war.
Carefully assembled from months of footage filmed in Odesa, Eva Neymann crafts a wartime documentary film that transcends destruction through poetic observation. Her camera roams the city, voyeuristic, but patient, inquisitive and sensitive. In ostensibly disjointed vignettes it peers through windows of life and work, watches cats play, rain fall, tourists’ selfies, torches hurrying under air raid sirens. It lingers with people old and young, who share profound dreams and ruminations on pasts, futures, joys and struggles when seen and listened to. Flowing like a dream peppered with levity, wonderment and tenderness, the quotidian, marginal, quiet or broken facets of this city are foregrounded, stating boldly: life goes on.
Synopsis Writer: Godwin Koay
7 Dec, Sun 4:30PM / 124 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 3
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When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea
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Eva Neymann
Ukraine, Germany
2025
Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
English
124 min
PG13 (Some Mature Content)
Asian Premiere
Eva Neymann
Eva Neymann is a Ukrainian director and screenwriter. Her feature Song of Songs (2015) was in competition at Karlovy Vary and won the Best Director award at the Odesa International Film Festival. She had previously made Pryvoz (2021), a documentary film selected for Doclisboa. When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea premiered at the Berlinale Forum.
Kirill Krasovski,
Eva Neymann
