Lto solidarity and help can manifest itself on several fronts, including sharing and showing the true story of a country at war. This is the case with the film Reflection by the Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasjanovyč – that the Venice Film Festival together with the distributor Wanted will project for free in Rome, Milan and Venice.
Precisely at Troisi, at Anteo, and at Rossini. Then from 18 March throughout Italy.
«The film is aimed at a thinking audience», Explained the director,« an audience that not afraid to ask questions hard on heavy trauma or to seek answers ».
Screenings in Rome, Milan and Venice
Presented in competition at the Venice Exhibition 2021 and set during the Donbass War of 2014, Reflection will pass to Troisi cinema in Rome on 7 March at 19.10introduced by the President of the Biennale, Roberto Cicutto.
Two days later, the March 9it will instead be the turn to Cinema Anteo in Milan at 8pmintroduced by the Director of the Venice International Film Festival, Alberto Barbera. TO Venice it will be possible to see it for free the next day, Thursday 10 March at 9 pmat the Cinema Rossini, introduced by Federico Gironi.
Father and daughter in the film. (press office)
“I stay in Kyiv»Declared director Valentyn Vassyanovyč firmly. «I want to be between people aware of their ethnic, cultural and political affiliation. I want to be among these people to gain important experiences that will help me create true stories about them“.
The plot of Reflection
A work of raw realism, he tells the story diplomatic-military clash between Russia and Ukrainestarted in February 2014 for the control of Crimea and Donbass. And evidently never resolved, given the recent war implications affecting the area.
The story starts from the events of Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy (Roman Lutskiy), who is captured by Russian military forces in Donbass, eastern Ukraine.
While he is a prisoner witnesses frightening scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life. After the release, tries with difficulty to return to everyday life dedicating himself to rebuilding relations with his daughter and ex-wife. Man in an act of rebirth will try to find lost humanity and his role as a parent.
A scene from “Reflection”. (Youtube)
Also Atlantis deals with the same issues
These same themes – the horror and violence of war – are also present in Vasjanovyč’s previous film, Atlantis (Award for the best film in the Horizons section at the Venice Exhibition 2019 e Ukrainian Oscar nominee), set in a future that, unfortunately, seems very near.
Eastern Ukraine after the war is it has become an inhospitable area and unsuitable for human presence. Here Sergeij, a former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress, tries to adapt to the new reality by specializing in recover corpses of war.
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