WAKING UP IN SILENCE

SQUARE EYES - as SALES

Children's - Completed 2023

Ukrainian children are confronted with their past as they explore their new home in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks.

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2024
Shorts programme
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Children's, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, UKRAINE
    • Languages
    • UKRANIAN, RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 18 mn
    • Synopsis
    • A former military barracks of the Wehrmacht now serves as a refugee camp for people from Ukraine.
      "waking up in silence" accompanies the children on their journey, where their own history intertwines with that of the barracks. A moment between past and future, war and silence, departure and arrival, which paints a portrait of German past and present through the eyes of its young protagonists.