THE INVASION

Over the course of a year, Sergei Loznitsa's film crews documented everyday life during the war in Ukraine. In Mykolaiv, people have to fetch water from fire hydrants. In Lviv, even young women learn to handle firearms. A despairing mother mourns her fallen son. Weddings, births, funerals or ice-bathing during air raids: Through these many nuanced observations, the film demonstrates how life goes ...

The Natural History Museum in Kiev in June 2023. War dominates the conversations of four women in an anteroom. Then a primary school class streams in, and the children embark on a journey to meet mammoths, Stone Age people, and pufferfish. For a brief moment, they can marvel, dream, and laugh in the depths of Earth's history.