{"id":152093,"date":"2025-06-02T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152093\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:35:37","slug":"welded-together-nabbed-by-lightdox-ahead-of-sheffield-docfest-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152093\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Welded Together’ Nabbed by Lightdox Ahead of Sheffield DocFest Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLightdox<\/a> has acquired the global sales rights to \u201cWelded Together,\u201d directed by Belarusian filmmaker Anastasiya Miroshnichenko<\/a>, which will have its world premiere as part of the Sheffield DocFest<\/a> Intl. Competition. The film is described as \u201ca haunting study of resilience, sacrifice and sisterhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKatya is a young woman who works as a welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family \u2013 to weld it back together, just like she welds metal at work. Despite the pain and disappointment she experiences along the way, Katya\u2019s love for her little half-sister drives her to protect the child\u2019s fragile world from a harsh reality. <\/p>\n

\n\tMiroshnichenko said: \u201cThe idea for \u2018Welded Together\u2019 came from a short news video about a young female welder. There was no information about her private life, only about her unusual job. But something about this young woman captured my attention, and I couldn\u2019t get her out of my mind.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen we finally met, and I got to know her better, her life experience resonated with me on a deeply personal level. The film tells a moving story, revealing that sometimes the most difficult decisions we make are also the truest expressions of love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal was brokered between Anna Berthollet of Lightdox and Val\u00e9rie Montmartin of Little Big Story.<\/p>\n

\n\tBerthollet said Miroshnichenko \u201cdelivers a film of rare cinematic beauty and emotional depth \u2014 intimate, unflinching and profoundly human. Katya\u2019s story, both tender and harrowing, captures the quiet heroism of those who love and protect in the most impossible circumstances.\u201d Berthollet added that Miroshnichenko\u2019s \u201cboldness as a filmmaker, her ability to bring light to invisible struggles with compassion and artistry, is exactly why we are proud to stand behind her work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMontmartin and Rapha\u00ebl Pelissou of Little Big Story added: \u201cSince discovering the project and meeting Anastasiya at IDFA 2022, we\u2019ve been deeply moved by the film\u2019s striking beauty and raw intensity, and by the resilience of its protagonist, Katya \u2013 a reflection of Anastasiya\u2019s own courage and talent as a filmmaker. \u2018Welded Together\u2019 confronts harsh realities while holding onto hope, and its deeply human, female-driven perspective embodies the kind of cinema we are proud to champion at Little Big Story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCinematography is by Pavel Romanenya, and editing by Kasia Boniecka and Stanislav Kalilaska. The music is composed by Rui Reis Maia.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was produced by Montmartin and Pelissou for Little Big Story in France; Iris Lammertsma and Babet Touwfor for Witfilm in the Netherlands; and Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman for Stenola Productions in Belgium. The film was made with the participation of France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, in association with BBC Storyville, and in co-production with RTBF T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Belge.<\/p>\n

\n\tMiroshnichenko graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, where she majored in documentary film directing. Her first full-length documentary \u201cCrossroads\u201d(2014) is a philosophical story about a homeless artist. It premiered at the 30th Warsaw Intl. Film Festival, winning the special mention jury award and audience award. <\/p>\n

\n\tHer next full-length documentary \u201cDebut\u201d(2017) is an intimate look at the lives of imprisoned women in Belarus, and premiered at the 30th edition of IDFA in Amsterdam. \u201cDebut\u201d was selected as Belarus\u2019s official submission for the Oscars in the category of best foreign language film, and was also included in the Academy\u2019s documentary section. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lightdox has acquired the global sales rights to \u201cWelded Together,\u201d directed by Belarusian filmmaker Anastasiya Miroshnichenko, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[64842,748,64843,393,4884,64844,1620,31670,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-152093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-anastasiya-miroshnichenko","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-documentaries-to-watch","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lightdox","14":"tag-sheffield","15":"tag-sheffield-docfest","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114613801956239412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}