The existence of Atlantis has been debated ever since it appeared in Plato’s writings, where it stood as an allegory on the hubris of nations. Valentyn Vasyanovych’s latest film lends the name to an anti-utopia in Ukraine in the near future. 

Following the 2014 Russian invasion that displaced well over1,6 million inhabitants from occupied Crimea and Donbas, a large area of eastern Ukraine descended into a desert unfit for human habitation. Pit waste polluted the land, infrastructure was destroyed, and acres of flooded mines poisoned wells and rivers. In a few more years the land will be a lifeless exclusion zone like Chernobyl.With his formally beautiful work, characteristic of his cinematography on Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe” (PÖFF2014), on which he was also a producer and editor

PÖFF 2019

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