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Everything Needs to Live

From an early age, Anna loved animals - she taught biology at school, worked at the zoo, where she proved to have a unique bond with animals.
As a woman, however, she understood that to cope with many challenges in her life, she had to be strong, also physically. This is how at the age of 40, she started to pursue a career as a powerlifter and soon became a multiple world champion and the “strongest woman in the world”.
Using the power of social media, Anna could influence her reality even more effectively. She campaigned for animal rights, founded animal shelters, searched for new families for dozens of stray animals, and soon became a social media influencer.
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, even though the world around her seemed to have collapsed, Anna did not give up. She continued to save injured and abandoned animals according to her motto: whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Director
  • Andrii Lytvynenko
    Director
  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Writer
  • Andrii Lytvynenko
    Writer
  • Anna Bławut Mazurkiewicz
    Producer
  • Lena Yakovitska
    Co-producers
  • Anna Kurkurina
    Key Cast
  • Piotr Ogiński
    Editors
  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Editors
  • Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
    Cinematographers
  • Ivan Selistran
    Cinematographers
  • Nataliia Avramenko
    Sound
  • Xeniia Vynogradova
    Sound
  • Michał Fojcik
    Sound
    MPSE
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Wszystko ma żyć
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Biography, War & Conflict, Social & Human Interest
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 29, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Russian, Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko

Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
co-director

Film director, editor and visual artist. Graduate from the Directing Department at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. She is the director of the short films “Wolves” (2023) and “Who Is Kaya?” (2019). She worked in television channels, film production companies, and in the Kyivtelefilm film studio. She is the editor of feature documentaries “Roses. Film-Cabaret” (2021) by Irena Stetsenko and “Askania Reserve” (2019) by Andrii Lytvynenko.
She participated in Eurasia Doc Lab, Astra Film Lab, Kharkiv Meet Doc Lab, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity Industry, among others. She received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine for the film "Where is the Dog Buried?". “Everything Needs to Live” is her feature debut.

Andrii Lytvynenko
co-director

Film director and producer. He graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University and the Documentary Studio at the Wajda School in Poland. He is the director of “Fantastic Ukrainians. Fine Art” (2020), a part of documentary series, and feature documentary "Askania Reserve" (2019), which received the Best Film Award at the Docudays UA festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Pelicam Film Festival. He is also the co-author and one of the co-directors of "Euromaidan. Rough Cut” (2014), which won a Special Mention at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Ukrainian producer and one of the authors of the idea for “The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov” (2017) by Askold Kurov and the author of the idea for the documentary almanac “Beyond the Euros" (2012). For the film "Where is the Dog Buried?” he received a scholarship from the President of Ukraine.

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Director Statement

Anna is a well-known world champion in powerlifting. She is also a social media influencer with over 300,000 followers, including from Russia, on Instagram itself.
By staying under missiles in Mykolaiv in the south of Ukraine, our heroine really took a big risk, because Mykolaiv suffered a lot during the shelling. Many famous and wealthy residents were killed by Russian direct-fire missiles. However, for Anna, it is important not only to stay in her hometown, but also take immediate action - she opens a humanitarian center and begins to help animals and people in the city and on the frontline.
For us personally, making this film is a particularly painful experience, since both of us are from Mykolaiv and Kherson. Seeing and documenting the destruction of our cities is a very difficult process and experience, which many people in Ukraine share with us and our protagonist. Probably in some sense Anna is our mirror. Through her words and attitude, we can voice our ideas about war and peace in our land.
This film is about what makes us human, about being human. About the complicated nature of human beings, society and their connection with nature. We believe that the experience of war reveals the true human qualities and strips bare the human soul. And the litmus test of humanity is our attitude towards the weakest - those who cannot take care of themselves or for whom society has no "interest" in taking care of. Therefore, people's attitude towards non-human beings such as animals and towards persons with disabilities is in essence the test of humanity and tolerance.