Mariinka plot
"Young people, torn families in a destroyed city. Brothers fighting on opposite sides. Shot on 16mm over 9 years in Ukraine."
Long before the Russian invasion in 2022, war was already raging in the Ukrainian frontline town of Mariinka. In the midst of the war, a promising boxer becomes a military paramedic, a girl smuggles unexpected goods across the front lines to survive, and two brothers now fight on opposite sides of the front lines—against each other—while their youngest brother lives safely away from the war with an adoptive family in the United States. Pieter-Jan De Pue spent ten years documenting the slow disappearance of a town, but also the fierce, tragic perseverance of those who once called it home.
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