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Watch anywhereDuring the first wave of the pandemic, a group of young people isolate in a rural Ukrainian village while the director remains connected to her mother in occupied Donetsk. Through diaries, nature, and phone calls, the film explores emotional distance and inner transformation. It is an intimate reflection on separation, identity, and acceptance.
A quiet diary of distance, memory, and emotional rupture
Cognition Trilogy Separation is a personal and observational documentary that unfolds during the first wave of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. The director, Sophia Gera, spends a month and a half in isolation with friends in the village of Bakota, having left Kyiv in search of refuge from the crisis. Surrounded by nature and cut off from urban life, the group experiences a gradual transformation shaped by silence, routine, and the physical environment.
At the centre of the film lies a dual reality. While Sophia shares daily life with her partner Anton and close companions, she remains emotionally tethered to her mother, who lives in occupied Donetsk. Their relationship exists only through phone calls, marked by an unbridgeable distance that intensifies as personal and historical tensions surface. The death of Sophia’s grandmother and her mother’s decision to move to Russia reveal deeper layers of unresolved conflict and long standing emotional fractures linked to the occupation of Donetsk since 2014.
Constructed from personal diaries, voiceover reflections, and observational footage, the film captures both the external stillness of rural isolation and the internal turbulence of memory and identity. Positioned as the first part of a larger trilogy, it explores separation as both a personal condition and a broader generational experience shaped by displacement, silence, and war.
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