On September 7, at the Venice Film Festival, the premiere of the film " The director himself appeared on the red carpet of the festival, as well as war correspondent Natalia Nagornaya and the wife of the Azov fighter Anna Zaitseva, Goskino reports..

Anna managed to survive on Azovstal, in which she and her little son spent about two months in bomb shelters.. Her husband joined Azov, now he is in Russian captivity. The girl was filtered, but she managed to keep a memory card that captured what happened in the bomb shelter. These shots were included in Afineevsky's documentary.

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Filming took place in Ukraine until mid-August and was completed only on August 31, when President of our country Vladimir Zelensky spoke at the opening ceremony of the festival.

Yevgeny Afineevsky was nominated for an Oscar for Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, which chronicled the events of the Revolution of Dignity when Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power as a result of protests..

Afineevsky's second film not only tells the story of a full-scale invasion from the stories of those who survived, but also shows how the events of that winter led Russian President Vladimir Putin to decide to annex Crimea, and led directly to our day..