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When Spring Came to Bucha has been filmed in the direct aftermath of the destruction and death in Kyiv region, a point zero for film protagonists, and a survival test for the Ukrainian film director. One year later, the team continues following the same protagonists, who now live in relative “normality”. Mila Teshaieva will talk about her personal experience and choices to depict the horrors of war without showing the actual atrocities, getting to the meaning of war on a personal level and thus making the public connect with far away experiences. What does it mean for the movie, viewers and the film team to find the balance between suffering and strength, solidarity and despair and what kind of challenges time brings to those who survived the horrors of the war?

Mila Teshaieva is a Ukrainian artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Her work is focused on the topics of national memories and collective identities in the territories of the former Eastern bloc. The retrospective of her work Imagined Communities was shown at the MIT Museum in Boston in 2018. From the very first days of the full-scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine Mila Teshaieva has been in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, photographing, filming, and writing on what she describes as “a defining moment of European history”.