Fortress Mariupol is a cycle of short films based on video calls to the soldiers who were surrounded by the Russian army in Mariupol at the Azovstal plant. From the beginning of the siege of Azovstal the director had conversations with soldiers of the Azov Regiment, revealing their portraits.
A girl with the call sign “Nava”, who worked in the press service of the Azov regiment and is in the besieged Azovstal by the invaders, reads her verse under documentary footage of evidence of the destruction of Mariupol by the Russians.
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Director: Yuliia Hontaruk
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Babylon'13
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Director
Yuliia Hontaruk
Yuliia Hontaruk is a Ukrainian director of documentaries and feature films. Co-founder of Babylon'13 — an association of independent filmmakers formed at the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity. She studied film direction at the Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Kary, at the workshop of Mykhailo Pavlov. Since 2013, Yuliia has been a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. In 2015, she was nominated for the Shevchenko Award in the field of cinematography. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
Selected Filmography
Heavenly Hundred (2014),
Stronger than Arms (2014),
Ten seconds (2016),
Iron Hundred (2019),
Fortress Mariupol short films cycle
(2022)
