Atlantis
Set five years into the future, this all-too-real dystopia, set in the wartorn Donbass in Eastern Ukraine, follows Sergiy, a Ukrainian soldier suffering from PTSD as he tries to restart his life amongst these scourged, uninhabitable lands.
Atlantis screens virtually nationwide from 12/10 to 12/15. Get tickets here.
A debut of remarkable formal precision, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis is an urgent yet highly controlled dispatch from the wartorn Donbass in Eastern Ukraine. Set five years into the future, this all-too-real dystopia uses a series of distanced, compositionally rigorous frames to follow Sergiy, a Ukrainian soldier suffering from PTSD as he tries to restart his life amidst these scourged, uninhabitable lands. Rather than foreground the in-the-moment battle between Russia and Ukraine, Vasyanovych instead powerfully depicts the inevitable aftermath, marked by economic and ecological degradation. Yet somehow, through a new volunteer job exhuming the dead, Sergey finds an unexpected path back to humanity.
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