CinéStarlight  |  Collaboration  |  General Public Séance spéciale: Immelmann Turn Special screening of a Ukrainian feature film

The CNA and Slava Ukrayini are pleased to invite you to the screening of the film Immelmann Turn.

Immelmann Turn (2022) is a Ukrainian feature film directed by Vera Yakovenko. The screening will be followed by a discussion with executive producer Olha Misko Panteleev.

The film is set in 2014 in the midst of conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Film in original version (Ukrainian) I English subtitles.
Duration: 1h30 - Drama

Synopsis

A small cargo plane that was to deliver supplies to the soldiers of a unit, which got encircled, is shot down near an urban-type settlement.

The crew of four people (topographer, radio operator, volunteer, and Canadian doctor of Ukrainian origin) manages to jump out with parachutes into the occupied territory. The pilot and the pilot's assistant steer the plane away fromthe settlement. The plane falls behind the forest into a swamp.

The adventures of the crew begin on the occupied territory. Against the backdrop of the crew members’ adventures, the story of the chief’s mother, 40-year-old Galyna, who heads to the East to buy out her son from captivity, unfolds.

The film focuses on the psychology and the destiny of ordinary people facing difficult situations. Their stories are common, mundane, sometimes amusing, and melodramatic.

And the war is just a background for a story picturing peoples’ destiny and a reason to start a conversation about topical issues in the country and the world. As well as about “Immelmanns” in minds of average citizens.