Oscar-nominated director makes film about severely injured Ukrainian children

Famous American director Evgeny Afineevsky is making his third documentary about Ukraine, particularly about children injured during the Russian full-scale invasion.

Source: The Nezlamni (UNBROKEN) National Rehabilitation Centre on Facebook 

Quote: "The director's new film's characters, among others, will be the young patients of our Centre who barely survived the enemy attacks and will have the marks of Russian aggression on their bodies for the rest of their lives," UNBROKEN wrote.

Film characters:

• 12-year-old Yana Stepanenko, who lost her legs during a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk;
• 8-year-old Romchyk Oleksiv, who suffered burns to 45% of his body during a large-scale terrorist attack on Vinnytsia;
• 13-year-old Stas Liakh, who suffered a severe brain injury while sleeping peacefully in his home in Kharkiv Oblast;
• brothers, 15-year-old Volodia and 9-year-old Yakov Yankovskyi from Odesa Oblast, and 11-year-old Veronichka from Vuhledar, they got stuck under the rubble and lost their parents as a result of Russian attacks.

"The American director wants to tell the stories of these little Ukrainians to the whole world so that no one forgets: the war is ongoing, the number of its victims increases every day, and children die and suffer from the aggressor's actions. The enemy's armed aggression leaves deep marks on the mental health of little Ukrainians," UNBROKEN noted.

Director Evgeny Afineevsky is the author of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom about the Revolution of Dignity. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature Film category in 2016.

The director's second film about Ukraine, Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, was presented in 2022. It is dedicated to the terrible events that Ukrainians have to go through due to Russian aggression.

The third film will be a continuation of the previous two, but with a focus on children who suffer from war. The director plans to release it at the end of spring 2024.

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