Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy at a distance of the war told via the voice messages of a foreign correspondent in a front-line city.
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Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy at a distance of the war told via the voice messages of a foreign correspondent in a front-line city.
“The Road” is the story of a young family trying to leave the occupied territory. At one of the checkpoints, armed Russian soldiers stop the car and take the man out for questioning. His wife and daughter are left waiting in the car.
During the Russian occupation of the Chornobyl Zone in early 2022, a local informant is clandestinely filming the Russian troops. The workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station discuss their experiences during the Russian military takeover of their facility.
August 19, 1991. USSR. Moscow is filled with rallies, barricades and tanks. But a summer school camp on the South is living its own life.
The filmmakers captured images and sound in the city of Kherson itself, just recently liberated, and inside the Museum, situated 2 km from occupied territory and 6 km from the positions of Russian troops. This Museum of Regional History housed one of Southern Ukraine’s largest and oldest collections of antiquities, with over 173.000 objects spanning seven thousand years, from Scythian gold to World War II weaponry. But between 24 and 26 October 2022, two weeks before Kherson was liberated by the Ukrainians, the museum was looted by Russian occupational forces, in a strategic theft of centuries of Ukrainian history.
