A war movie that stares at the void and finds weird, fragile hope in industrial wastelands.
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Cinematography
Static long takes that force you to witness destruction.
Direction
Vasyanovych's unblinking gaze at post-war Ukraine.
Production
Industrial decay so real you can almost taste the rust.
Director
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2019, it eerily predicted Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion; the Donbass conflict it depicts was already ongoing since 2014.
Vasyanovych used actual veterans and locations, blurring documentary and fiction; the metal-detecting scenes were improvised with real former soldiers.
UA
