This strikingly graphic and honest documentary is about the human toll of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine that started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and was immediately followed by the Russian occupation of parts of southeastern Ukraine. Director Anastasiia Starozhitska and her boyfriend, Ukrainian soldier Valery Lavrenov, each film what’s happening to them and share their feelings with one another. They are together out of frame, and then, later, in the frame. He volunteered for the front; she meets him just after the Battle of Ilovaisk, where he lost his closest brothers-in-arms. While traveling through ruined towns in order to reach him, she strives to understand the essence of war and love. The film follows them trying to live together afterwards.

Followed by Q&A with Directors Anastasiia & Mariia Starozhytska.

Tickets are $20 and you can purchase them on the day with cash or by emailing info.tautokoua@gmail.com. Proceeds will be donated to the Tautoko Ukraine Charitable Trust, the largest South Island humanitarian group coordinating efforts to aid volunteers directly in front of embattled Ukrainian defenders.