When Spring Came to Bucha

Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin invites its guests to the screening of When Spring Came to Bucha, a documentary film by Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz.

About the film: 

Ukraine | 2022 | Documentary | 66’

By the time the Russian army retreated from Bucha, Borodyanka, and Irpin, houses were destroyed, civilians executed, and lives ruined. From the moment when they emerge from their shelters over the course of many weeks, the film follows various residents as they pick themselves up from the smoldering ruins. The dead are identified, debris is cleared, and prosecutors start talking about a war tribunal. But as the first blossoms of spring start appearing, these Ukrainians also reveal their resilience. The human spirit overcomes war and death.