Atlantis
A strong piece of poetically pure art-house cinema that finally offers a ray of hope for humanity's future.
Atlantis
A prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival and Ukraine's official selection for the 2021 Academy Awards, Atlantis is a gorgeous and visionary sci-fi drama. Eastern Ukraine, 2025. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Water is a dear commodity brought by trucks. A Wall is being build-up on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to his new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
Genre
Sci-Fi,
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
106
Language
Ukrainian
Director
Valentyn Vasyanovych
FEATURED REVIEW
Dennis Harvey, Variety
“It took you 10 years to cleanse this region of Soviet propaganda and myths,” says one character to another in “Atlantis,” going on to suggest that the devastation now left behind may never be “cleansed” at all. A strikingly bleak vision of a near future in which Ukraine has won its war with Russia ...
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 1.29.21 - 3.04.21
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