Soviet 2.0: Novorossiya

UKRAINE: A brand new film from the grey zone of war in Donetsk, on Ukraine's eastern front, where war has been raging for years. World-premiering in the Special Premieres program at this year’s hybrid CPH:DOX, Luca Gennari and Enrico Parenti’s Novorossiya is one tragically timely doc – a snapshot of life on the ground in the Donetsk People’s Republic. It’s a borderland region in which both citizens and soldiers have experienced the Donbass-Ukraine conflict up close and personal; intimately and viscerally bearing witness for the more than 13,000 people who’ve died since the DPR was first established back in 2014 (as onscreen titles tell us from the start).

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