Artur Aliiev

Story about three young people who become friends or even more.

A young Ukrainian man realizes his dream of working aboard a ship cargo ship. The outbreak of war in his country and the dangers on board however, turn his job and his path of growth into a harsh test.

2021. When 22-year-old Vitaly leaves his mother Tetyana and his beloved sister Eugenia behind in Ukraine, he dreams of starting a new life in Munich, Germany. Struggling to find where he belongs in a foreign country, he eventually joins a student theater group. Everything changes with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Eugenia and Tetyana are forced to flee. Overnight, two harsh realities land on Vitaly’s doorstep: the global political situation and his own family conflicts.

A raw portrait of a group of rebellious youth thrust into adulthood too soon, navigating the wreckage of the Soviet regime set in the late 1990s in Kyiv.

A young theologian tries to stop her brother from going to Ukraine as a volunteer fighter – but his radical decision seems to call her own life plan into question and plunges her into an existential crisis.