Soviet Life Zoya Cherkassky

The works of the artist Zoya Cherkassky sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but their bright colors tell a story of immigration, survival, and alienation.

"Soviet Life" accompanies her on an intimate journey from the studio in the immigrant Tel Aviv neighborhood where she has met her husband, a migrant worker from Nigeria to her childhood in pre-war Kyiv, in search of her lost naive Ukrainian childhood, in the hope to find the one place in which she would feel at home.

Anat Schwartz graduated (with Honors) from The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem and La Femis in Paris. Anat received her BA (cum laude) in Philosophy and Literature from Tel Aviv University.

“La Promise” (Docu, 84 mins, 3 episode series, 2017) which she directed, cinematographed, and co-produced, was screened at DocAviv Film Festival in 2017 and YesDocu channel and received critical acclaim. "39", Anat's first short fiction film, premiered at the Torino Film Festival in 2020. "Zoya Cherkassky Soviet Life" (30 mins, Docu) is also the winner of Best Short Film at Master of Art Film Festival 2023 and the Israeli Documentary Forum 2022. The Israeli Film Academy Best Documentary Nominee was aired in January 2022 on Kan-11 (Israeli public TV) as part of a series of short films on artists and was the most viewed film of that series.