Companies :
ДАПродакшн / DAProduction; Интерфест / Interfest; Пропеллер Продакшн / Propeller Production при поддержке Министерства культуры РФ / avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie
August 2014. The suburb of Donetsk. The young Ukrainian soldier Andrey Sokolov is sent as a driver to the combat zones. To escape the bombardments he takes refuge in the basement of a building where he finds himself forced to get to know other totally different people. They come from different regions, they have different destinies and opinions. but the same dream unites them: that the war ends as quickly as possible.
commentaries
Included in the programme for Russian Film Week in Paris (2018), this film prompted a reaction from the Ukrainian Embassy. Its First Secretary for Cultural Affairs wrote a letter of protest against what she regarded as Kremlin propaganda. A leaflet was also distributed on 9 November 2018 outside the Arlequin cinema prior to the screening of the film.
The films by Igor Minaiev, *The Donbass Cacophony* (2017), and by Sergei Loznitsa, *Donbass* (2018), offer the Ukrainian perspective on this conflict.
