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Awards & Film Festivals
10 Awards Won
Full List of Awards
75th Locarno International Film Festival Grand Prix Best Film of Semaine de la Critique 75th Locarno International Film Festival Boccalino d’oro - Independent Critics Award 62nd Krakow Film Festival Best Polish Film 2022 Adelaide International Film Festival, Australia - Best Documentary 2022 Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival, Poland - Main Award 2022 34th Trieste Film Festival, Italy - Audience Award for Best Documentary 2023 34th Trieste Film Festival, Italy - Transeurope Award 2023 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong - Jury Award 2023 15th Millenium Film Festival 2023, Belgium - Special Jury Award for the Most Original and Innovative Film 2023 Roman Brodmann Award for Political Documentary 2022 - Germany
Full List of Festivals
75th Locarno Film Festival 2022, Switzerland 62nd Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2022 Baltic Sea Docs Riga 2022, Latvia 65th International Festival of Documentary and Animated Film DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2022 Adelaide International Film Festival, Australia, 2022 41st Cambridge Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2022 36th Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2022 13th DOC NYC New York's Documentary Festival, USA, 2022 IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2022, The Netherlands European Film Forum SCANORAMA 2022, Lithuania 19th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine, 2022 39. Kasseler Dokfest Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany, 2022 8th Human Rights Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland, 2022 34th Trieste Film Festival, Italy, 2023 9th BIDF Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary, 2023 20th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2023 Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland, 2023 Screening at Cinema du Grutli, Geneve, Switzerland, 2023 CPH:DOX* | Copenhagen Int. Documentary Film Festival 2023, Denmark, 2023 9th Censurados Film Festival, Peru, 2023 Ukraine Month in Europe 2023, Moldavia ZagrebDox - International Documentary Film Festival 2023, Croatia 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2023 15th Millenium Film Festival 2023, Belgium 16th One World Romania International Human Rights & Documentary Film Festival 2023, Romania 42nd Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2023, USA, 2023 Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2023, Italy Screening at VANDENHOVE, Centre for Architecture and Art Ghent University, Belgium, 2023 Crossing Europe FIlm Festival 2023, Austria Moldova Film Festival 2023. Moldavia, 2023 International Book and Film Festival Etonnants Voyageurs 2023, France Moldox Festival 2023, Moldavia Conference of the European Shakespeare Research Association, Hungary, 2023 Greenpoint Film Festival 2023, USA Screening at Goethe-Institut Hong Kong 2023 Film ohne Grenzen Festival - Berlin-Brandenburg CineEST Luxembung One World Slovakia International Human Rights & Documentary Film Festival 2023
Jury Statements
Jury of the 75th Locarno Film Festival 2022
"This film brilliantly articulates Hamlet's dilemma for the Ukrainian youth. The film mediates their experiences of having to make hard choices when their options are very limited. This because of a grinding war. A very elaborate filmic language forms a universal film“
Jury of the 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2023
"While after a year of war in Ukraine we have almost become accustomed to the daily images of horror, this film reminds us in a painful and powerful way of the scars that war leaves in people's minds. It is the extraordinary perspective that the film creates and its deep humanity and emotionality that make this film so stunning."
Jury of the Adelaide International Film Festival 2022
"Poised at the intersection of theatre and cinema, using performative expression as a restorative process to contemplate grief, trauma, and the harrowing realities of war, ..."
Jury of the Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival 2022
"An insightful cinematic portrait of a society struggling to survive during a military invasion, a documentary that describes this struggle with extraordinary power in every aspect."
A Powerful Message
