A town of 40 000 inhabitants in south-eastern Ukraine is occupied by Russia. Andriy, a 35-year-old Ukrainian priest, sees his church turned into a morgue. He is forced to guard the bodies of Ukrainian civilians who have been shot until the Russians come to collect them. Every three weeks, the Russians collect the bodies and bury them in mass graves to cover up their crimes. For several months, the priest resists, secretly returning the bodies to their families. But winter is approaching and the ground is too frozen to bury the dead. How will he continue to resist as conditions deteriorate even further?

Rostislavas Kirpičenko was born in Lithuania, moved to Ukraine with his family, and spent his childhood there. Later, he relocated to Paris and studied directing at La Fémis. The director’s latest work, One, Angarskaia Street, is the young filmmaker’s debut feature-length documentary, in which Kirpičenko returns to Dnipro, where he grew up, ten months after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and pieces together memories of his former life. The film was presented and received an award at the 2025 Cinéma du Réel festival.