Message in the Bottle
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Message in the Bottle

DirectorKateryna Ruzhyna

2026
17 min

A documentary-experimental video about the personal and collective connection to Ukraine’s lost waters: the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Kakhovka Reservoir. Since 2014, Ukraine has been going through a gradual process of being cut off from these waters, which have shaped its landscape, memory, and identity. The film works with collective memory through oral histories, archives, and personal recollections. Its protagonists reconstruct intimate images of disappearing places, presenting memory as a process of rethinking and reclaiming the past.

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