In Detail

His passion project about the Babyn Yar massacres near Kyiv in 1941 was overtaken by the Russian invasion of his country in March 2022 and he found himself visiting towns, not far from the capital, where similar atrocities had been carried out by Putin’s forces.

Despite the close parallels, he asserts in his introduction that ‘the light will win because it always defeats the darkness’. What he shows, both in contemporary footage and reconstruction, makes us hope against hope that he was correct. Outstanding and harrowing.