Film Screening IFFWW: The Rising Sun

Feature Television Competition

Location: Festival Hub (23-24, Princes Gate, London, SW7 1PT)

Time: 13:20 - 14:20

Free to attend

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The Rising Sun

You have no right not to live on...

"We had a wonderful life, a perfect life in general. We had dreams, goals, prospects, and we were working towards them. I had a full-fledged family, we had great relationships with everyone, friends. Everything was perfect! And now..."

No family, no home, no language... A happy life that was destroyed by Russia is behind. Darkness, uncertainty and fear are ahead. This is the heartbreaking story of a young woman, who with her little son and a great tragedy of her own, found herself in the UK because of the War in Ukraine.

Director Biography - Alyona Kaporina

Alyona Kaporina is a filmmaker from Ukraine who left her home because of the war and now lives and works in Manchester. For the last year she has been working on the documentary 'The Rising Sun'. It is a heartbreaking and intimate story about a young woman, a refugee from Ukraine, whose life has been destroyed by the war. Alyona observes how this woman starts her life from scratch, in a new country, without family, without a home, without English, but with a small child in her arms.

'The Rising Sun' is Alyona's first experience in documentary filmmaking.

Prior to that, Alyona made a short fiction film, '2Lines/2Lives', which was presented at international film festivals and won the Best Short Film award at the Toronto International Women's Film Festival in Canada.
Alyona wrote the screenplay for this film herself, and also acted as the main producer and shot it at her own expense.

Alyona's work includes social and commercials. And on the eve of the war, she finished the first draft of her feature film debut script and submitted it for pitching to the Ukrainian State Film Agency. But the war completely destroyed her life.

Directing is Alyona's second degree, she started her studies in 2013 when she was 29 years old. At that time, she was a successful producer at Starlight Commercial Production. She worked there from 2011 to 2016, and rose from a copywriter to the position of deputy head of the company.

Alyona is also constantly engaged in social work. In Kyiv, she founded and for several years held a charity screening of short films called Short film for a Long Life as part of a charity festival.

In Manchester, Alyona Kaporina is one of the organisers of Ukrainian rallies that take place every Saturday to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

23 Princes Gate, 23 Princes Gate, London, United Kingdom