Plot synopsis

a time-lapse documentary shot by Ukrainian DoP and volunteer paramedic Yevhen Titarenko. It depicts the life of medical staff near the front line in 2014 and 2022. Titarenko followed a unit of paramedics around and managed to get a peek into their private lives. Mansky is editing the countless hours of footage into the format of a feature-length film. The documentary promises to offer a view of the Russo-Ukraine war from its very centre.

Commentaries and bibliography

Vitalii Manskii, Yevhen Tytarenko: Eastern Front (Shidnyi front, UKR, 2023), Jeremy HICKS, Kinokultura, 2023

Vitaliy Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko: Eastern Front (2023), Nataliia ANDRIUSHCHENKO, Kinokultura, 2023

BERLINALE 2023 Encounters. Critique : Eastern Front, Vladan PETROVIC, cineuropa.org, 2022

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Artdocfest / International, Different cities (World), 2024

- Hong-Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong (China), 2023

- "Jeden Svët" International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World, Prague (Czech Republic), 2023

- Russian cinema beyond borders, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023

- Artdocfest Echo in Paris, Paris (France), 2023

- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023

- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2023

- Artdocfest / International, Different cities (World), 2023

Photos and videos

Bande annonce / Trailer