Ukraine 2025, 106 min, English and Ukrainian, Hebrew & English subtitles
Trigger Warning: This film contains disturbing content. Viewer discretion is advised.
Mstyslav Chernov, the filmmaker who left audiences around the world speechless with 20 Days in Mariupol (Special Mention winner at Docaviv 2023 and Academy Award Best Documentary winner), returns with a masterful and unsettling documentary that shadows a Ukrainian platoon on a mission to liberate a strategic village from Russian occupying forces. Meter by meter, trench by trench, a stark realization dawns on the soldiers: This war may never end. The chilling sights of a land in ruins, the immersive battle footage from soldiers’ helmet cameras, and the terrifying absurdity of total war are probably why the jury at influential festival CPH:DOX compared this film to “All Quiet on the Western Front” when giving it the F:ACT award. “But this is not the First World War,” they added, “it’s today”—a courageous real-time account of a war happening right now.
Previous Festivals: Sundance
