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26/11/2020 Documentary 1h 14m
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How much power can art have in wartime?

Overview

Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.

  1. Iryna Tsilyk

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Hanna Hladka

    Herself

  2. Stanislav Hladkyi

    Himself

  3. Anastasiia Trofymchuk

    Herself

  4. Myroslava Trofymchuk

    Herself

  5. Vladyslav Trofymchuk

    Himself

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-09-03
This is one of these true-life fly on the wall documentaries that really does hit home. It centres around the mother of four "Anna" who is trying to bring up her children with some semblance of normality amidst the ongoing troubles in the Donbass area of the Ukraine. With the bombs dropping and the bullets never far away, the family decide to make a film depicting their day to day struggles and their day to day joys - and, surprisingly, there are quite a few of the latter to brighten up the otherwise prevailing scenario of doom and gloom. The children age from mid-teens to ten years younger, a...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Ukrainian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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