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Porcelain War

2024

Documentary

Documentary Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it's easy to make people afraid, it's hard to destroy their passion for living.

	Media	Author	Review
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Suffused with the golden-hour nature of Kharkiv, the film also features music by Ukrainian force of sound DakhaBrakha which is not easily forgotten"
		Dan Mecca The Film Stage	"That 'Porcelain War' emerges as a taut, effective war documentary that also features compelling animated sequences within the beautiful artwork of its lead subjects makes it a stand-out piece of filmmaking"
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Visually confident but intellectually insecure"
		Marya E. Gates IndieWire	"[Sefanov's] co-director Bellomo should have had the required distance to not just compile footage, but contemplate what it all means"
		Jacob Oller Paste Magazine	"A battlefield art documentary that faces its violent dissonance head-on until resonance emerges"
		William Bibbiani The Wrap	"The intensity with which 'Porcelain War' presents its horrors will knock you down"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"Affecting but patchy Ukraine-Set documentary splits its interests between art and combat"

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