Nastia, who has lived abroad for many years, begins to teach her mother how to use Internet services. Different perceptions of technology become the starting point for exposing intergenerational conflicts and long-forgotten family threads. The complicated navigation of social media reflects a no less difficult path to communicate. While learning, the heroines learn a lot about each other, but will the intimacy regained by Zoom be defining for the further relationship between the two adult women?
International Short Film Competition
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
SHORTS O’CLOCK I, Saturday, April 18, 16:00, Bucharest Time (EEST)
ENGLISH TITLE:
Can you hear me?
Original title:
Czy Ty mnie słyszysz?
Director:
Anastazja Naumenko
Country:
Poland
Genre:
animation
Year:
2025
Length:
15’
Cast:
Svitlana Naumenko (mom); Anastazja Naumenko (Nastia)
A quote for the film:
Nastia’s Zoom lessons on using a laptop for her mom are disrupted by unstable internet—and resurfacing family traumas.
Selective list of festivals and awards:
ANIMA EAST AWARD for Best Animated Film; Palm Springs International ShortFest, United States 2025; Animator – International Festival of Animation, Poland 2025, Bronze Animusz Award; Przezrocza Film Festival, Poland 2025, Best Editing Award, Grand Prize; Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Ukraine 2025, Best Film Award (granted by the film critics of Ukraine).
Director’s bio:
Anastazja Naumenko is a visual artist and director, whose main investigation focuses on intertwinement and co-relations between real and fictional worlds, hence most of their works are a mix of documentary and fiction. They are currently studying at die Angewandte in Vienna.
