https://fotogramas.politicaconciencia.org/videos/watch/2b31552c-7454-46c5-822e-f35bc1518a22 Donbass (English subtitles) Documentary film This film contains sensitive footage Country: France Year: 2016 Original language: French, Ukranian Subtitles: English Director and guionist: Anne-Laure Bonnel Synopsis: Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. This video is age-restricted at the source. Video source description (English) In 2015, A.-L. Bonnel, then still a very young French documentary filmmaker, journalist, lecturer at the Sorbonne, at the behest of her heart, went to Donbass to accompany her father, a Ukrainian by birth. At the height of the war, she captured horrific footage of the Nazi regime's punitive operation and the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe associated with it. In his journal, the author comprehensively touches on the conflict. The French director gathered the detained people who met by chance during the trip. A.-L. Bonnel emphasizes that while working on the film, she completely focused on human destinies and the reverse side of the war, leaving the political context behind the scenes. A journalist-researcher, she penetrates the everyday life of the civilian population: it is they who become the main victims of the conflict. A.-L. Bonnel managed to capture the scars and wounds on human souls, invisible to the naked eye, but engraved in the minds and hearts of the civilian population: fear, mourning, chaos. The director experienced the horrors and losses of the bloody conflict: during the filming, a member of her technical team was kidnapped and killed. During the 11 months of work of A.-L. Bonnel, Ukrainian Army's military operations in the east of Ukraine caused the death of more than 10,000 civilians in Donbass. With lively and authentic filming, Donbass resembles a road movie created in search of lost values. However, according to the director, her work is, first of all, a metaphor for war, which is considered “in the human dimension” without political considerations. It was with this appeal that the film was presented at the festival "Au cœur des Droits Humains", the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. “We must be able to resist any violence that a person is capable of, and not forget what war does to people,” says A.-L. Bonnel. Versions of this film: Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oh-IE2zmJc&t=0s Reuploaded original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oh-IE2zmJc&t=0s Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGD2Dd0bzk&t=0s English voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_xCBhToCQ&t=0s Spanish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8Ev7hEPAU Another documentaries about Ukrainian Crisis Nikita Mikhalkov (last episode) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2knEs3W6Q&t=0s (his channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/besogontv) Burnt alive in Odessa - https://youtu.be/wu2tXG2Yo-g God, hope those Angels in peace and calm now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEAejE1acQY&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIARKyYEbE&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96pR7thVfNA&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4JRB8SdL_0&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QpcA0Tx3X0&t=0s German subs - https://youtu.be/XLmA7h49Mmc Video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEOy0eRcJxo Synopsis and data source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5474178/?ref_=tt_mv_close Sound and video edition was done with 'libre' free software Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:14:22 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://fotogramas.politicaconciencia.org https://fotogramas.politicaconciencia.org/lazy-static/avatars/fa3520b0-8189-4e6c-a873-8bfc45f0b6e6.png https://fotogramas.politicaconciencia.org/videos/watch/2b31552c-7454-46c5-822e-f35bc1518a22 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://fotogramas.politicaconciencia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.