Matka Films

In a Russian-occupied town in southeastern Ukraine, where burying the dead has been forbidden, the church of a young priest, Andriy, has been turned into a morgue for executed Ukrainian civilians. As the occupation tightens its grip, Andriy quietly begins to resist, secretly returning the bodies to their families at great personal risk. Along the way, he forms an unexpected bond with Makarov, an 11-year-old boy who becomes the silent witness to his rebellion.

A summer morning in the south of France. Lou, 5, detects a foreign smell in her mother’s hair: stale smoke. When a man joins them to spend the afternoon at the river, Lou watches him and wonders: Who is he, what is he doing there, and why is he so close to her mother?

A gardener orchestrates the flowering of his garden. In his momentum, he triggers a unfortunate incident. Its kind flowers try to warn him.

On February 24th, 2022, Russia invades Ukraine. The news reaches the director, Rostislav Kirpicenko, in Paris, where he has been living for many years. The war raises questions about exile... In search of answers, Rostislav travels to Lithuania, where his grandfather settled, before returning to Dnipro, the Ukrainian town where he grew up.