This Rain Will Never Stop (2020)

Original title

Цей дощ ніколи не скінчиться

Directed by

Alina Gorlova

Genre

documentary film

Country

Qatar, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Kurdish-Ukrainian Red Cross worker delivers aid in war zones while trying to reunite his family scattered by conflict. The film follows his journey across borders and through the endless cycles of war and peace.

meditativesombercontemplativevisually starkquietly intensemelancholiccyclical

What happens

This Rain Will Never Stop (Ukrainian: Цей дощ ніколи не скінчиться) is a documentary film by Ukrainian director Alina Gorlova with cinematography by Vyacheslav Tsvetkov. It is a Ukrainian-Latvian-German-Qatari production, produced by Maksym Nakonechnyi for Tabor Production. The film follows a Kurdish-Ukrainian Red Cross worker who delivers aid in the Russo-Ukrainian War and tries to help reconnect with his family which had scattered from the Syrian Civil War. The film is known for its powerful story, rich black-and-white cinematography, and expressionist art house style. It was recognized at the 2020 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam winning the IDFA Award for Best First Appearance and has won the grand prize at several other international film festivals. It has been scheduled for commercial release in spring 2022. The film is divided into 11 sections that are notated with the numbers 0 thru 9 and back to 0 in Arabic. This method was used to show the cycles of "war, peace, destroying, rebuilding, life and death". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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