UKRAINE is a haunting documentary film shot entirely on an iPhone. Over three years, it captures the traces of Russia's war of aggression in destroyed cities, deserted villages, and the faces of the people. Without narration, accompanied ...See moreUKRAINE is a haunting documentary film shot entirely on an iPhone. Over three years, it captures the traces of Russia's war of aggression in destroyed cities, deserted villages, and the faces of the people. Without narration, accompanied only by music and the voices of Ukrainian women, men, and children recounting their experiences, a multi-layered mosaic of the present emerges. The immediacy of the cell phone images lends the film an extraordinary proximity and authenticity: shaky shots, quiet moments of everyday life, sudden explosions - fragments of a reality that, in its rawness and honesty, appears barely filtered. UKRAINE is not a traditional report, but a poetic and harrowing contemporary document: a cinematic diary of perseverance, loss, and the unbroken will to continue living despite all the destruction.
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