A Ukrainian filmmaker becomes a frontline paramedic. Working alongside a Dutch volunteer, he sees each death not only change him but widen the rift between the world he comes from and the curated world he’s trying to reach.
Sergii is a Ukrainian filmmaker who was preparing his debut feature film - until the war turned him into a paramedic and a documentary storyteller. He now films real people on the frontlines—evacuations, rescues, exhaustion. His voice remains off-screen, present through diary entries, reflections, and his journeys to Europe, where he pitches the film at festivals. The deeper he moves between these worlds, the more visible the rupture becomes. The title becomes literal: each loss takes away a part of the author himself.
This is not a conventional war film—there are no combat scenes. It is a film about a man caught between the frontline and the festival market. Someone who saves the wounded but also searches for a language to speak to a world that no longer wants to listen. The ending is open: his shift over, he drives off, while the soldiers and medics he leaves—some alive, some forever still—fade in the mirror.
Pitching at the Warsaw Film Festival, Pitching at the Berlinale, Pitching at the Krakow Film Festival
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