The Way

February 24, Russia launched a full-scale attack on my home country, Ukraine. 8 years earlier, Russia annexed Crime and sent troops on Donbas region. I've always seen my country as a place with a poetic old culture and a bright modern future. Ever since I was young, my dream was to show the beauty of Ukraine, and of its history and culture to the world. I've always believed in a bright future for Ukraine and when the war started, I felt like the old secure and safe world had cracked. My young friends went to the war to defend the country. Waiting, instability and orphanhood have come to my land. Most of the film's photography was done in Ukraine a few years ago. Assembling them in the US, I've tried to find the clearest picture about my far away country in order to share its story and tragedy to this world.