The Mist

Year
2023
Country
Ukraine
Duration
15’
Director
Dmytro Shovkoplias

Ukraine, February 24, 2022. A regular winter morning transforms into an extraordinary event, and everyday life becomes part of a great war.

Explosions, sirens, queues, shelters. Evacuation, roads, checkpoints, volunteering. To stay or to leave? Which direction to run? There's a river beyond the forest and a bridge beyond it, but you can't see it. In case of heavy fog, try to follow the sounds.

This essay film was shot in the first days of the war during the evacuation from the Bucha district of Kyiv region. It is an attempt to capture the feeling of disorientation and loss that most Ukrainians experienced at the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian War.


Content warning: depiction of war

 
CREW:
Director: Dmytro Shovkoplyas
Producer: Serhii Bukovsky, Mike Lerner
Sound: Ihor Barba, Andrii Barba
Director
Dmytro Shovkoplias
Dmytro Shovkoplias is a cinematographer, director and producer. He graduated from the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi National Theatre, Cinema and Television University with a degree in cinematography. He studied at Serhiy Bukovskyi's documentary film directing workshop. He has worked with independent production studios and directors on many international documentary and fiction projects.
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07 June 2023
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