FREE Community Screening (Please Reserve Seat though!) thanks to a gift from members of the Dreamland’s Board of Directors.
Synopsis:
Recipient of the Documentary Feature Audience Award at the recent
Nantucket Film Festival - Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal
Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and
beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by
professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya
Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art,
their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. Despite
daily shelling, Anya finds resistance and purpose in her art, Andrey takes the
dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a
weapons instructor for ordinary people who have become unlikely soldiers. As
the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on
tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain
present, and hope for the future.
Co-directed by Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo, with extraordinary footage from
first-time cinematographer Stefanov, Porcelain War is a stunning tribute to the
resilience of the human spirit, one which embodies the passion and fight, that
only an artist can put back into the world when it’s crumbling around them.