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“What really happened on 24 August 1991”
This is a collection of unique video and photo documents, memorials of direct participants and witnesses of the events: deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR/Ukraine, government officials, politicians, public figures and journalists, as well as materials of Ukrainian and foreign media.
Status
Released
Original Language
UK

Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.