QIRIM

Прекрасна історія про неймовірних людей ❤️

A moving film that fascinatingly distils the core of Ukrainian cinema. Through a non-binary artist-soldier's perspective, the film deploys the themes of the individual and culture, the artist and their creation, the Ukrainian and their land, the dignity and morality of humans. And of course, fragments! Performance art, warfare, candid footage, protests. The film humbly inserts itself as a flawed fragment of Ukrainian cinema. The screen is split and split again. Culture and war cohabitate onscreen as one struggle. Antonina Romanova says "I". Antonina says "us". Alongside Romani, Jewish, Hutsul, Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian, Romanian, Donbas, Odesan people, this person becomes one among many in a beautiful way. It joins a vibrant chorus of Ukrainian cinema stretching back to the 1920s. It is another portrait of Ukraine's diversity. This collective attitude is something we need to learn from Ukraine.