2017 | Fiction | 14 min. | Russia
A drone drops in the enemy’s territory, gets stuck on a fir tree and is found by soldiers from both sides of the conflict. However it turns out that under the tree the soldiers are helpless, grenades don’t blow up and weapons don’t work. People realize that the fir tree is stopping them from killing each other and decide to destroy it instead.
Directors Statement
The war in Ukraine deeply troubles me, because I was born and raised in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. My relatives still live there. My mother is buried there. It is not only I who am troubled by the war. I was walking down the street when I remembered the word svyato. In Russian it means ‘sacred’, but in Ukrainian it means ‘celebration’. So, we have something in common, with roots that go very deep.
Director: Boris Mamlin
Studio: Kartina Mira
