Five Ukrainian teenagers grow up in small towns in a coal mining district. Like the teens the world over, they do the 400 blows, they fight against the boredom and the multiple frustrations of finding out who you are, and how to live. But these teens are in Donbas, where the war has been going on for years. Not only the region is ravaged by economic decline, but fighting rages constantly in the background – and sometimes much closer. They battle to find their way through the hopelessness and confusion: through drawing, photography, and music. Above all, through friendship. Then, as they dream of escape, an unexpected invitation arrives. How would they like to visit Nepal, and hike through the foothills of the Himalayas? Suddenly, there is a light in the darkness. They train hard to make this impossible-seeming dream a reality, recording their efforts in video diaries. As the situation in their homeland worsens, the threat of a full-scale Russian invasion looms. Can the hopes and dreams of these young people survive? A Ukrainian teenage adventure documentary and a tender choral portrait of Donbas’ no future generation in the midst of the war with Russia. Only those who dream live high!
We Will Not Fade Away
My ne zhasnemo
25th TiDF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
Available at the Agora Market TiDF25 |
- Direction: Alisa Kovalenko
- Script: Alisa Kovalenko
- Cinematography: Serhiy Stetsenko, Alisa Kovalenko
- Editing: Marina Maykovska, Kasia Boniecka
- Sound: Mariia Nesterenko
- Production: Trueman Production
- Producers: Valery Kalmykov, Yana Kalmykova, Oleksiy Kobelev
- Co-production: HAKA Films, East Roads Films, ARTE G.E.I.E – La Lucarne, Telewizja Polska, Current Time TV
- Co-producers: Katarzyna Kuczyńska, Tomasz Morawski, Stéphane Siohan
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Ukraine, France, Poland, USA
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 100'
- Contact: East Roads Films
Creative Producers: Stéphane Siohan, Alisa Kovalenko
Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2020
Age 15+
Alisa Kovalenko
Filmography
2014 Sister Zo
2015 Alisa in Warland
2018 Home Games
2023 We Will Not Fade Away
2023 Girl Away From Home (short, co-direction)
2015 Alisa in Warland
2018 Home Games
2023 We Will Not Fade Away
2023 Girl Away From Home (short, co-direction)