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EVERYTHING NEEDS TO LIVE

by Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko

synopsis

Everything Needs to Live portrays the unusual daily life of Anna Kurkurina, a charismatic athlete, ‘the strongest woman in the world’, an animal activist and an out lesbian. Already at an early age, Anna proved to have a unique bond with animals. She taught biology at school, worked at the local zoo where she made friends with a lion, helped to set up animal shel- ters and tried to find new homes for dozens of stray animals. » 5 At the age of forty, she decided to pursue a ca- reer as a powerlifter and soon made it to the top by becoming a triple world champion. She also started to work as a coach of young people with disabilities. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian in- vasion of Ukraine, Anna has been using the pow- er of her popularity as an athlete and a social media influencer to help injured and abandoned animals, following her motto: ‘Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.’

international title: Everything Needs to Live
original title: Wszystko ma żyć
country: Poland, Ukraine
year: 2025
genre: documentary
directed by: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko
film run: 70'
screenplay: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko
cinematography by: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Ivan Selistran
film editing: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Piotr Ogiński
producer: Anna Bławut-Mazurkiewicz
co-producer: Olena Yakovitska
production: Aura Films sp. z o.o.

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