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Everything needs to live

SYNOPSIS
This is a film about humanity that overcomes various stereotypes.
Everything Needs to Live portrays the unusual daily life of Anna Kurkurina, a charismatic athlete, ‘the strongest woman in the world’, an animal activist and an out lesbian.
Already at an early age, Anna proved to have a
unique bond with animals. She taught biology at
school, worked at the local zoo where she made
friends with a lion, helped to set up animal shel-
ters and tried to find new homes for dozens of
stray animals. » 4
At the age of forty, she decided to pursue a ca- reer as a powerlifter and soon made it to the top by becoming a triple world champion. She also started to work as a coach of young people with disabilities.
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian in-
vasion of Ukraine, Anna has been using the pow-
er of her popularity as an athlete and a social
media influencer to help injured and abandoned
animals, following her motto: ‘Whoever saves
one life, saves the whole world.’

  • Tetyana Dorodnytsina
    Director
  • Andrii Lytvynenko
    Director
  • Tetyana Dorodnytsina
    Writer
  • Anna Blawut
    Producer
  • Olena Yakovitska
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Все має жити
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Portret on war landscape
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 30, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    212,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Poland
  • Country of Filming:
    Ukraine
  • Language:
    Russian, Ukrainian
  • Shooting Format:
    2k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Krakow film festival
    Krarow
    Poland
    May 29, 2024
    Poland premier
    Audience Award, Produser awards
  • Docudays film festival
    Kiyv
    Ukraine
    June 6, 2024
    Audience award, Right now award
Director Biography - Tetyana Dorodnytsina, Andrii Lytvynenko

Tetiana Dorodnitsyna
director

Film director, editor and visual artist. She graduated from the directing department of the Kiev National
I. K. Karpenko-Kary University of Theater, Cinema and Television. She is the director of the short films "Wolves" (2023) and "Who Is Kaya?" (2019). She has worked for television channels, production companies and Kyivtelefilm film studio. She is the editor of the feature-length documentary - "Roses. Film-Cabaret" (2021) by Irena Stetsenko and "Askania Reserve "(2019) by Andrii Lytvynenko.

She has participated in Eurasia Doc Lab, Astra Film Lab, Kharkiv Meet Doc Lab and Millennium Docs Against Gravity Industry, among others. She received the Ukrainian Presidential Scholarship for her film "Where Is the Dog Buried?" (2020). This film "Everything is to Live" is her feature-length debut.

Andrii Lytvynenko
director

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

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Director Statement

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

Anna Kurkurina is a well-known world champion
in powerlifting triathlon. She is also an influencer
on social media with more than 300,000 followers, including from Russia, on Instagram alone.

Being under constant rocket fire in Nikolaev in southern Ukraine, our heroine took a huge risk as Nikolaev suffered badly during the shelling. Many well-known and wealthy residents were killed by Russian rocket shells. However, for
Anna finds it important not only to stay in her hometown, but also to take immediate action - she opens a humanitarian center
and begins to help animals and people in the city and on the front lines "