Photophobia

• Pavol Pekarcík, Ivan Ostrochovský
• 71 min
• Slovakia, Czech republic, Ukraine
• 2023
• Fiction

The subway becomes a sanctuary for a Ukrainian family in a powerful, heartfelt, and Venice-winning documentary about prioritizing joy and tenderness amidst a raging war.
It's Ukraine, it's war, but we don't see it. A subway car in the underground of Kharkiv has become the home of 12-year-old Niki and his family over the past year – an existence where it's too dangerous to let the children see the sun. The war is palpably present with the sounds of falling bombs, but down in the underground, both the subway cars and platforms have transformed into a community for families forced to leave their homes, where food is cooked, children play, and receive education. We, as spectators, encounter the death and destruction of war through moving view master-like images, but down in the subway, a new and different everyday life has taken shape. We get very close to that everyday life in Photophobia."


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