War and Peace?

During War and Peace? the film Atlantis (2019) will be screened. A fictional story about the end of the war, set in the Donbas in 2025 that seems to have remarkable resemblances with reality. Former soldier Sergey and archaeologist Katia meet at volunteer organization the Black Tulip to salvage the bodies of fallen soldiers to give them a dignified funeral. In this apocalyptic film about trauma and the search for a future, fiction seems to be intertwined with reality. The film will be introduced Slavist and expert on the conflict, Laura Starink. Will it really be peace in Ukraine this year and how can the country move forward again?

Laura Starink is a Slavist, expert on Russia and Ukraine and co-founder of Raam op Rusland, Oekraïne en Belarus - the Dutch center of expertise on society, culture and history of Russia and the former Soviet republics. Starink was a journalist for NRC Handelsblad for decades, including as a correspondent in Moscow, and is author of Post uit Rusland about 50 years of living with Russia and De Schaduw van de grote broer about, among other things, the start of the war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Atlantis (2019) I directed by Valentyn Vasyanovych I 106 minutes I Ukrainian spoken, English subtitles

This event is organized by Studium Generale and International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), as a part of the IFFR Filmclub.