

Explosions Near the Museum
Looted by Russian occupational forces between 24 and 26 October 2022, the Kherson Museum of Local Lore used to house Southern Ukraine's largest and oldest collections of antiquities. The museum featured more than 173000 objects, spanning seven thousand years, from Scythian gold to World War II weaponry. Two weeks before Kherson was liberated by the Ukrainians, Russian occupational forces enacted a strategic theft, stripping centuries of Ukrainian history from the museum/region. The sound of shellings and missile strikes was recorded during filming inside the museum on December 12, less than two kilometers away from russian-occupied territory.
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- English
- russian invasion of ukraine (2022)
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United StatesUS
- PremiereArt at the Rendon, Los Angeles30 Mar 2023
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical (limited)Belgian museums screenings18 May 2023
GermanyDE
- PremiereLudwig Forum Aachen4 May 2023
- PremiereKurzfilm Festival Hamburg6 Jun 2025
UkraineUA
- PremiereIvano-Frankivsk International Short Film Festival "4:3"29 Sept 2023
- PremiereMolodist Kyiv International Film Festival30 Oct 2024
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Explosions Near the Museum was released on 18 May 2023.
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