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A film-reflection, a film-diary and an attempt to understand what “we” are and how “we”  live through an age of turbulence and historical ruptures. This film is a sketch for a portrait of the contradictions-ridden Ukrainian society, but also an intimate autobiographical story of Sashko Brama, the director of an independent Ukrainian theater. He sets out to film intensive care units with covid-positive patients, illegal raves and anti-vaccination rallies, all to find his place in a time of crisis and instability. His camera allows him to focus on the world, watch it like a movie. Yet, on February 24, 2022 life significantly alters his film: challenges presented by the epidemic lose their importance against the backdrop of the full-scale invasion. The film “We” is a journey of a human carrying a video camera through the epoch of global changes, through the stories of people from which the panorama of society forms in the conditions of crises and turmoil that have irreversibly changed us.

 

Participated in the film: Lesya Lytvynova, Serhii Mikiten, Olya Kobevko, Roman Makarenko, Masha Churikova, Paraska Kulish, Tanya Maksymchuk, Alla Shkarutyak, Oleh Dykunets, Ulyana Savych, Ivan Denysovets, Vladek Suhovetskyi, Petro Lozko, Mykhailo Zherebylo,  Mikhal Jasinskyi, Max Nescheretskyi “Ronin”, Vlad Urban “Storm”,   Solomiya “Urban”, Varya Tahmazova, pastor Oleg, Yaroslav Kaliteevskyi.

 

Director – camera operator – Sashko Brama

Producers – Sashko Brama, Maria Jasinska, Liuda Batalova

Camera operators – Maria Jasinska, Kolyan Pastyko, Iryna Stepaniak

Editing director – Dmytro Tiazhlov

Editing – Sashko Brama

Voiceover – Sashko Brama

Sound mix – Vladyslav Sirenko

Color correction – Serhiy Dotsenko

Audio design – Volodymyr Palianychka

Authentic singing – Paraska Kulish

Curators of IndieLab – Ella Shtyka, Dmytro Tiazhlov

Drivers – Max Kylymnyk, Iryna Stepaniak

 

a fragment of a musical composition by the band GARDEN KRIST sounds in the film

 

Gratitudes: residence of Symbolum Sacrum, Ukrainian Doc Laboratory, OKO press, Hromadske TV, Lviv Drama Theater of Lesya Ukrainka, Lviv Academic Theater of Lesia Kurbas, Charitable Foundation “SVOI”, City Hospital No. 1 (Chernivtsi), Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Hospital, Kyiv City clinical hospital No. 17, St. Panteleimon Hospital (Lviv), City Emergency Medical Service Station (Kamyanets-Podilskyi), Peter and Paul Garrison Church, Teper Tut rave community, Maria Shevchenko, Genadiy Korotchenko, Olya Kobevko, Ira Myronova, Olena Gladiy, Oksana Zobak, Natalia Pomin, Ruslana Kryvushenko, Oleksiy Kryvushenko, Oleksiy Nagorniuk, Eric Avetisov, Oksana and Iryna Denys, Volodymyr Fanta, Yuriy Minich, Oleksiy Solovyov, Polina Kelm, Mykhailo Puzyurin, Hanna Polak

 

the film was created as part of the Indie Lab documentary film laboratory for young artists

 

the project took place with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine