Olga

Ukraine, autumn 2013. Olga, a fifteen-year-old top-flight gymnast, has some hard training ahead of her in her father’s home country of Switzerland: she hopes to bring about a major shift in her career, taking her to the European Championships and on to the Olympics. The political situation in Kyiv intensifies, however, and Olga’s mother, a journalist and activist, joins the thousands of people demonstrating in Independence Square, among them Sasha, Olga’s politically driven friend and former Ukrainian teammate. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)