Reflection [LAST SCREENING]

Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema: discover director’s Atlantis and Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe

In collaboration with FNC

In 2014, Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy enlists to fight Russian military forces in the Donbass region, where he is captured by enemy soldiers. Now a prisoner of war, Serhiy is forced to witness horrifying scenes of humiliation and violence at the hands of the Russian invaders, his medical background co-opted to dispense mercy killings to the tortured. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment, still suffering from the trauma of his experiences. Looking inward, Serhiy tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife, learning how to be a human being again through being a father. Written, directed, produced, shot, and edited by acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych, REFLECTION is a meticulously-composed depiction of pain – and redemption – that Variety called “one of the most intellectually provocative and rewarding films” of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.

*Venice Film Festival 2021
*Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) 2021