Synopsis
In summer 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

Festivals
Sundance 2023
– World Cinema Documentary Competition
Berlinale 2023
– Panorama
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2023
– Film Forward
Hot Docs 2023
– “Made in Ukraine” Program
Int. DOK.fest Munich 2023
– DOK.focus: POWER OF MEDIA?
Crew
Authors –
Roman Liubiy
Mila Zhluktenko
Director –
Roman Liubiy
Producer –
Andrii Kotliar, Volodymyr Tykhyy (Babylon’13)
Co-Producers –
David Armati Lechner, Isabelle Bertolone, Trini Götze (Trimafilm)
TV Broadcaster –
rbb, arte
Funded by –
Ukrainian Cultural Foundation
Ukrainian State Film Agency
DoP –
Andrii Kotliar
Editor –
Roman Liubiy
Mila Zhluktenko
Sound –
Andrii Rohachov
Production Design –
Volodymyr Liubiy
Music –
Anton Baibakov, Oleksandra Morozova
Press contact
Barbara Van Lombeek
barbara@theprfactory.com
+32 486 54 64 80
Gudrun Burie
gudrun@theprfactory.com
+32 498 10 10 01
World Sales
Stefan Kloos
info@riseandshine-berlin.de
Details
Production –
Ukraine / Germany 2023
Picture –
1:1,78
Sound –
5.1 SRD
Length –
84 min.