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THE BASEMENT

By Roman BLAZHAN

ANDANA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2024

For 27 days confined in a school basement during
an invasion, the villagers of Yahidne share a
profound lesson with the world: how to preserve
humanity when it seems all but lost, offering a
blueprint for resilience and compassion amid
chaos.

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BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2024

DokFest Munich 2024

Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE, UKRAINE
- Languages
- UKRANIAN
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Roman BLAZHAN
- Producer(s)
- Christilla HUILLARD-KANN (Elda Productions), Roman BLAZHAN (Minimal Movie)
- Synopsis
- On the 3rd of March 2022, nearly 400 people
  of the Ukrainian village Yahidne are locked by
  Russian troops in a 160 square meters school
  basement for 27 days. The livestock is killed,
  the farms devastated. One year later everything
  appears peaceful. The dogs are running around
  and the gardens are green but the wounds
  have barely healed. The children play war; the
  adults fluctuate between getting on with things
  and remembering. A testimony to strength and
  solidarity.

THE BASEMENT

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