Er Gorbach took a story ripped from international headlines for her drama, set amid the Russo-Ukrainian War and inspired by the shooting of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
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“The events of July 17 have become like a mirage,” says Er Gorbach. “In Ukraine, we saw 300 innocent people killed, but somehow the memory of this moment, in the international news, has faded. And with so many alternative realities and images shown in Russian and Western media, it’s like you can’t be sure if what you saw really happened or not. I constructedplays out in Irka’s home, where the gaping hole in her living room wall looks out onto the Donbas steppes.
Irka is no heroic cowboy defending her land with a fast gun. As the men in the film, her quietly separatist husband and her staunchly pro-Ukraine brother Yaryk , fight it out, Irka tries to keep ordinary, domestic life going amid the chaos of the coming war. She milks the cow, fetches water for cooking, dusts the wreckage of the living room.
It’s a future Er Gorbach says she already sees on the streets, 10 months into the full-scale war with Russia.was released in Ukraine in early November and has been doing well on the art house circuit there.
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