How civilians live in the war. The story of the filming of a documentary project in Zaporozhye

Our country is going through times when every step and day require careful documentation. And for the history of which we hope, our descendants will learn, and for international courts, which our enemies will once be presented. Therefore, the cinematographic efforts of Ukrainian production are now focused on documentary. It is the requirement of time and the unconditional request of society. They are removed everywhere - on the front line, in the rear and in the liberated territories.

And we - the production "Sector of Truth" chose the frontier territories of Zaporozhye. These are the places where the front passed yesterday. Here and now the situation is little different from "zero". Bombardment of cabin, RSZO shelling and ballistic missiles are the daily reality of people's lives in the frontline. It is practically the territory where the war goes and the people living here are in the war, though they are civil.

- How does civilian live in the war? - What do they worry, think, feel? - How do they survive? What gives them strength, bravery, belief in victory? These, and many other questions, were asked by the authors of the television cycle "The frontier life" in front of the inhabitants of Kushugumskaya, Komyshivskaya, Shirokiv communities.

The director of the "Truth Sector" Maria Yaremchuk, together with the team of NGO "NGO" driving force "conceived a project as a documentary dilogue consisting of lace stories of different people: from representatives of power to socially vulnerable groups: pensioners, people with disabilities, etc. The cycle shows the main problems of the communities of the region related to war, such as: - geographical proximity of the front.

And these are constant shelling, destruction, difficulty in providing the most necessary, humanitarian crisis. - temporary occupation with terrible tragedies, experienced people, losses and grief. - Working with IDPs, increasing the population, also with their humanitarian challenges. - confrontation of the invaders: volunteering in communities that are on the second line of the front, support of each other, the unity of people in the face of evil.

" The slogan "History of Ukrainian Unity", which best illustrates the main idea of ​​the cycle "Front Life". All the heroes and heroines with whom we worked in the frame and out of the frame, despite the fact that we were in difficult life circumstances, did not make hands, but continued to work, act, did everything to help others and it best characterizes Ukrainians as a nation , which opposes the aggressor, "says director Maria Yaremchuk.

" Front Life "is not the first documentary work of the artist about people of war. In the creative work of her snapped-hundreds of front-line shorts, dozens of historical documentary and research films. The viewer documentary-portrait "Bars. Unfinished business ", dedicated to the memory of the People's Hero of Ukraine of the legendary company" Black floats "Valery Krasnian" Barsa ".

And also a series of short -range essays" wounded by war " - the history In studying and analyzing the submitted materials significantly increased the level of knowledge and ideas about the Zaporozhye region, how the communities of the region lived before the war and live in war conditions. We will preserve this understanding of the future when the area is fully released and rebuilt, " - shares the experience of the producer of the project Volodymyr Hanas.

The dilogue" Crown Life "will be presented on the Kievstar TV arming platform, where it can be viewed for free. "Zfrorontov Life" took place in Ternopil, Vyshnivtsi and Lviv. There were more than 250 spectators in total: young people, older people, internally displaced persons, local residents. After watching, the audience readily shared with the team of cinema with their impressions. -It is difficult to compare the feeling of the war of 14 years and the present. Now everything is much more painful.