Donbass - Documentary - 2015 - English subtitles

Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young French director, and mother, decides to accompany Alexandre, a father of Ukrainian origin, in the Donbass region, in the east of Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Donbass is an immersive road movie, a gripping documentary film in a torn country.
“In 2015, Ms. Bonnel, a documentary filmmaker, journalist, teacher at the Sorbonne, went to Donbass and became an eyewitness of a bloody conflict, which terrible footage is shown in her authorial film.

The director has collected testimonies from people she met during her visit in the Donetsk People’s Republic in her work. The author emphasizes that while working on the film, she completely focused on human destinies and the reverse side of the war, leaving the political context behind the scenes,”