The Forgotten(2019)

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.

Genre: Drama

Director: Daria Onyshchenko

Actors: Maryna Koshkina, Vasiliy Kukharskiy, Danylo Kamenskyi, Serhiy Smiyan, Alexander Zhukovin, Andrey Titov, Lyublyana Fenchak, Aliona Korovka, Aleksey Gorbunov, Elena Kruzhylina

Release date: 2019-10-09

Country of origin: Switzerland, Ukraine

Length: 1h 45m

Ratings:

• 7.5/10