The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other. But life is becoming more and more difficult and the war does not seem to end.
Won IDFA's First Appearance Competition 2017 and Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg 2018. The film has also received awards in Hong Kong, San Francisco, Geneva and Thessaloniki.
Seoul, EBS International Documentary Festival 2018
Best International Film
2018
Tel Aviv Docaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival 2018
Best Documentary Award
2018
Docsbarcelona 2018
Documentary Academy Award
2018
Warszawa, Against Gravity 2018
SOS Children's Villages worldwide avard
2018
München Documentary Festival 2018
VIKTOR Main Competition International Doc
2018
München Documentary Festival 2018
Best Documentary Award
2018
Sao Paulo It's All True Int. Documentary FF 2018
McBaine Documentary Feature Award
2018
San Francisco Int. Film Festival 2018
2nd Prize for Best Documentary
2018
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2018
Golden Alexander Award
2018
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2018
FIPRESCI Award best documentary
2018
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2018
The Human Value Award of the Greek Parliament
2018
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2018
Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary
2018
Göteborg International Film Festival 2018
IDFA First Apparance Award
2017
Amsterdam, IDFA 2017
Festival screenings
Festival
Festival date
Tehran, Cinéma Vérité, Documentary Film Festival
2018-12-01
Mannheim-Heidelberg, Int. Film Festival
2018-11-15
Los Angeles, AFI Int. Festival
2018-11-08
Bergen International Film festival
2018-09-29
Zürich Film Festival
2018-09-27
Reykjavik Film Festival
2018-09-27
Malmö Nordisk Panorama
2018-09-20
DMZ South Korea
2018-09-13
Seoul, EBS International Documentary Festival
2018-08-01
Wellington - New Zealand Film Festival
2018-07-27
New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival
2018-06-14
SilverDocs AFI Documentary Festival
2018-06-13
Sheffield Doc/Fest
2018-06-07
Sydney Film Festival
2018-06-06
Cape Town, Encounters South African Int. Documentary Film Festival
2018-05-31
Tel Aviv Docaviv Int. Documentary Film Festival
2018-05-17
Docsbarcelona
2018-05-16
Warszawa, Against Gravity
2018-05-11
München Documentary Festival
2018-05-02
Toronto, Hot Docs Int. Documentary Festival
2018-04-26
Göteborg International Film Festival
2018-04-19
Sao Paulo It's All True Int. Documentary FF
2018-04-12
San Francisco Int. Film Festival
2018-04-04
Hong Kong International Film Festival
2018-03-19
CPH:DOX
2018-03-15
Vilnius International Film Festival
2018-03-15
Prague, One World Human Rights Film Festival
2018-03-05
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
2018-03-02
ZagrebDox
2018-02-25
Istanbul Festival of Independent Films
2018-02-15
Göteborg International Film Festival
2018-01-26
Helsinki Doc Point Documentary Film Festival
2018-01-23
Amsterdam, IDFA
2017-11-15
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