Porcelain War: Tuesday, October 21

Admission $5
Showing at 7:30pm

Documentary,  Ukrainian, Russian, English with subtitles), 1 hour 27 min, Rated R
Winner of the 2024 Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize

Amid the chaos and destruction of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. Despite daily shelling, Anya finds resistance and purpose in her art, Andrey takes the dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a weapons instructor for ordinary people who have become unlikely soldiers. As the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain present and hope for the future.

“Porcelain War is a testament to how life’s beauty — all the world’s fertility an artist is trained to see — endures among privation and death.” –Washington Post

“A combination of whimsy and devastation, it looked at the continuing war in Ukraine through the eyes of eccentric artists who carry on with their craft of making adorable little figures even as the Russian invasion disrupts everything.” – Wall Street Journal