The early days of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian children displaced by the conflict are brought to a Russian elementary school. One of them turns out to be the long-lost nephew of Victoria, a music teacher of Ukrainian descent. Victoria awakens from the slumber of Russian propaganda and begins a desperate fight to save the boy.

Alexandra Strunin is an audiovisual artist of Ukrainian-Russian descent with a long-standing music career as a vocalist and extensive acting experience, performing on stage and in numerous Polish TV series. She has also directed many music videos for other artists and bands. She graduated from the Department of Photography in the Faculty of New Media Arts at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. Currently, she is in her second year of film directing studies at the Warsaw Film School, and her debut short film as a director is “I Gaze at the Sky.”

Alexandra Strunin