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IF ASKED

A woman never asks for war. She asks for a wedding where she can dance in a white dress, for a child she can raise in peace, for the man she loves – alive and beside her. But no one ever asked her.
This film is Lena’s confession.
Speaking from a future where the war has never truly ended, she retraces the moments when decisions about her life were made without her voice, searching at last for answers in a place where everything might have been different if she had been asked.
Through the use of generative AI tools, the film unfolds across several layers of reality simultaneously – documentary, psychological, symbolic, and dystopian.
Across these shifting perspectives, the viewer sees millions of women sharing that same pain right now, in different parts of the world. In silence. Through Lena’s voice, they are finally heard.