Wednesday, September 25 at 6:45 p.m.: Q&A with director Betsy West moderated by Academy Award winner Thomas F. Lennon, Director of the Documentary Film Lab, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Thursday, September 26 at 6:45 p.m.: Q&A with director Betsy West moderated by Peabody Award winner Judith Helfand, co-founder and senior creative consultant of Chicken & Egg Pictures.
As the Ukraine war moves into its third year, a surprising story of resilience: how children in Ukraine are surviving the Russian war machine that has targeted them and their families. With creativity and imagination they have transformed backyards and playgrounds destroyed by missiles, invented fairy tales where vegetable armies vanquish Russian attackers, and carried on the Ukrainian tradition of music and dance in bombed out studios. Life behind the frontlines as seen through the eyes of the children who will inherit a country struggling to survive a brutal invasion.