Atlantis (dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych)

SPECIAL EXTRA SCREENING in association with Solidarity with Ukraine: Building a New Internationalism

Atlantis (dir: Valentyn Vasyanovych, 2019, 106 mins).

Made before the full invasion but set in 2025, Atlantis is a post-apocalyptic love story in rigorous tableau shots and long takes. Retired soldier and PTSD sufferer Sergiy struggles to settle into post-war life. Then he meets Katya, whose job is exhuming and retrieving the war dead. Winner of the Horizons award at the Venice International Film Festival.

Atlantis was acclaimed as a cinematic masterpiece and Vasyanovych the country’s dystopian auteur. Sergiy’s first job is in a huge smelter, the bubbling metal matching his own boiling but suppressed emotions in the industrial landscape. Neoliberal reforms render the factory unprofitable and he finds a new job driving tankers to areas where war pollution has made the local water undrinkable. It is here that he meets Katya, among deeply confronting scenes of corpse recovery. Simultaneously blunt and tender, Atlantis will take your breath away.

Special extra screening in association with LSE Solidarity With Ukraine. Available to book on Eventbrite.

Donations for this event will go to Ukrainian Women Veteran Movement (UWVM).

UWVM is an organisation for female veterans, created to increase their opportunities for self-realization in society. It focuses on advocacy and protection of the rights of women veterans and active military personnel, and the promotion of equal rights and opportunities through lawmaking and advocacy for a professional and prestigious security sector.

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The screening is followed by SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE Building a New Internationalism Tickets, Sat 11 Mar 2023 at 10:00 | Eventbrite