Steve’s Version

Runtime: 75'

Expected release: January 2027

Production stage: Fine Cut

Budget: $200,000 (40% in place)

1st feature: No

Synopsis:

Filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz is asked by her uncle, Steve, to make a film about her grandfather, a violinist long absent from her work. With no archive and few answers, the project unravels. Heartbroken, she travels across Europe with a 16mm camera, tracing absence through memory and performance—until a final act of reanimation reveals what it means to bring someone back.

Director/Producer ‘s Profile:

Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto. Her films have screened at Berlinale, Locarno, New York Film Festival, Göteborg, Viennale, FIDMarseille, and TIFF, and have been the subject of a retrospective on the Criterion Channel. Her feature MS Slavic 7 premiered at the Berlinale and screened at the Harvard Film Archive. Her fourth feature, A Woman Escapes (co-directed with Burak Çevik and Blake Williams), premiered in competition at FIDMarseille, where it received an Honourable Mention for the CNAP Prize, and was awarded the Kodak & Silverway Award at the FIDLab. Her latest film, Measures for a Funeral, premiered at TIFF. A Berlinale Talents and TIFF Talent Accelerator alum, she is currently a resident at the Academia de Cine in Madrid, where she is developing her sixth feature, La Tirana.

Sofia Bohdanowicz is also a producer, and founder of the production company “Maison du Bonheur Films”, a production company she established five years ago. She has produced all of her feature films to date, developing a body of work grounded in artisanal, process-driven practices that move between fiction and documentary. Her films have been presented internationally at major festivals and cinematheques. As a producer, she is committed to creating intimate, collaborative environments that support formally adventurous cinema. Looking ahead, she aims to expand “Maison du Bonheur” to produce work by other independent filmmakers, with a focus on singular voices and rigorously crafted, artist-driven projects.