We Will Not Fade Away

We Will Not Fade Away

Directed by Alisa Kovalenko • 2023 • Ukraine

Alisa Kovalenko’s collective portrait of teenagers in the Donbas just prior to the full-scale invasion is a moving tribute to a world of opportunity now lost to military aggression. Andriy, Illia, Lera, Liza, and Ruslan have come of age in a world where shelling and gunfire have been facts of life since 2014 – but this has not stopped them from dreaming of a better life. Then the opportunity to travel to the Himalayas on an “adventure therapy” expedition suddenly opens their horizons up to new challenges. With both tenderness and urgency, Kovalenko reveals a generation raised amid suffering but full of life: a generation who must now bear the burden of occupation and exile as a result of Russian aggression.

WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY • МИ НЕ ЗГАСНЕМО
Written and directed by Alisa Kovalenko
Cinematography by Alisa Kovalenko and Serhiy Stetsenko
Music by Wojciech Frycz

In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles

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We Will Not Fade Away
  • We Will Not Fade Away

    Directed by Alisa Kovalenko • 2023 • Ukraine

    Alisa Kovalenko’s collective portrait of teenagers in the Donbas just prior to the full-scale invasion is a moving tribute to a world of opportunity now lost to military aggression. Andriy, Illia, Lera, Liza, and Ruslan have come of age in a world whe...

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  • Video Essay: The cinema of Ukraine’s war

    Since the full-scale invasion, independent Ukrainian cinema has moved away from grand narratives and towards something quieter, more fractured. Working with limited means, filmmakers have gravitated towards documentary and essay forms to register the everyday realities of war. These films offer a...

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