

He unites with others activists in Hatne, meets Yevgeniya Zakrevska, a famous human rights lawyer and starts an internship with her in Kyiv. Palamarchuk grabs Serhiy's neck and tells him to “shut the fuck up!”. One day, Oleksandr Palamarchuk, the political boss of Hatne, attacks Serhiy in front of everyone in the city hall and threatens him publicly. The local political elite can't stand his initiatives. A little Ukrainian cousin of Greta Thunberg. Nearly three years after the Ukrainian revolution, when the people fought against its corrupt elite, Serhiy is a little Maidan on his own. He exposes the officials' corruption on Facebook. He investigates, talks to the community and intervenes at the city council. Serhiy stands up against abuses, illegal construction and environmen- tal destruction.

Especially, he can’t stand the corruption around and starts to resist. But somehow, Serhiy feels that he’s different – and sees injus- tice everywhere. His parents have divorced, he gets bad marks in school. He comes from a poor family and he’s ashamed of his home, the condi- tions he lives in. Welcome to Hatne, a small rural town near Kyiv slowly being eaten by wild urbanization, Serhiy, a teenager like no other, doesn't like it. An ode to the sons of the last miners, to the children of the working-class, who’re reinventing themselves. "Expedition 49": an upbeat chronicle of the last golden hours of childhood, capturing this huge desire of freedom that burns inside every teenager. Is there a way out to the world outside? Are they brave enough to chase for new horizons? Can you enlighten your life, when you grew up in the most desolate place? Our "Donbas 5" prepare months over the coal pits to climb the highest mountain and find some answers. An old adventurer wants to bring kids from the war zone to the Himalayas: a therapy to heal their traumas and break the walls around them. Until one day, a voice echoes in the radio. Lisa’s boyfriend might be enrolled in the enemy’s ranks.Įverything’s messed up. On weekends, she dances wild to Billie Eilish in the bomb shelter. Lera complains that all cute guys have gone. Ruslan is a bad rapper, but commenting Counter Strike online, he earns the salary his dad doesn’t get.ĭelicate Ilya wants to be an actor. Ruslan struggles to exist in the eyes of his father, an ex-cop who went down to the mine and makes a fool of his son. For pickup featured in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, see Collectable Coin. Obsessed by his passion for old Soviet motorbikes, Andriy smuggles cables, repairs everything and sees himself as Elon Musk! Welcome to California Early Childhood Online. Bombs keep falling, but new dangers are looming: factories are closing, coal mines get flooded and parents loose their jobs.Īndriy wanted to be a miner, like his dad who now pumps water out of the bombed pits, near the trenches. "Expedition 49", a teen-spirit adventure film about five Tom Sawyers, stuck in the social and industrial collapse of Donbas: the largest mining region in Europe, plagued by a never-ending war.Īged around 15, Andriy, Lisa, Ruslan, Lera and Ilya live near Zolote, a small frontline town.
