Stanislava Doronchenko

Three-part documentary chronicling Ukraine’s military peacekeeping missions in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa, showing decades of operations in conflict zones and their impact on Ukraine’s international role.

An attempt by a young director to reflect on her own professional aspirations while looking at another director who has been trying for decades to establish an avant-garde theatre in a provincial Donbass town. Now it is his last attempt – what will it bring?

The Vertep Imp embarks on a journey through memory, through the darkness of censorship and arrests, to restore the voices of young and audacious dissidents, together with new, unexpected friends.