Open City Documentary Festival

7 – 13 September 2022
in London

MS Slavic 7 + Q&A

Location Regent Street Cinema, Director Sofia Bohdanowicz, Deragh Campbell , Country Canada , Duration 64, Previous Festivals & Awards Berlinale Forum 2019, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 2019, Sarasota Film Festival 2019, New Directors New Films 2019, Date Event has passed

Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s distinctive hybrid follows a young woman on a research trip to Harvard University Archives, where the letters of her great-grandmother—the renowned Polish poet, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa—are held. What begins as a purely scholarly endeavour soon sees simmering tensions bubbling to the surface. Familial resentments, intellectual disagreements, and matters of the heart all enter the fray, each punctuated by moments of bone-dry humour. Part of an ongoing series of collaborations between its co-directors, MS Slavic 7 is an elegant and witty investigation into the burdens of ancestral legacy, and the melancholy present in a family’s archived memories.

UK Premiere

Screens with:
Dalsza Modlitwa-(Another Prayer)
Sofia Bohdanowicz | 2013 | Canada | 6′

Dalsza Modlitwa explores filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz’s efforts to recreate a memory of her grandmother.

Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Sofia Bohdanowicz

Read an essay on MS Slavic 7 by Cathleen Evans