Victory Day

For Wojtek, a representative of the generation raised in a free Poland, war had been an abstract concept – until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A sense of helplessness and shame first drove him to volunteer at the border, and then deeper into Ukraine. However, the sight of victims and ruins did not give him an answer to the question about the source of evil. Seeking a confrontation with the “Russian world,” yet unable to cross the border of the Russian Federation, the director travels to an extraordinary place – Barentsburg, a Russian mining settlement located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard – to witness the celebration of the "Victory day".