The introduction will be given by:

• Maria Mokhova. A Ukrainian fashion & culture media multitasker, hailing from Kyiv, Maria Mokhova has been combining her journalistic and publicist work for many years, focusing on a single aim - to support talents, amplify their voices and dig deeper than the glossy surface of contemporary fashion, art and design. With a strong international economics and versatile cultural background, as a journalist she has been focusing on industry analysis (economical, social, political, cultural - as fashion can never shy away from these), scouting and speaking to emerging brands and talents, as well as industry leaders.
  

• Marlo Saalmink. After stints in Paris (FR), Berlin (DE), Copenhagen (DK) and Bergen (NO); Marlo Saalmink settled on a calm, internationally oriented atelier in Maastricht, Holland,
  for visual culture, art curation and editorial projects. Whilst maintaining a small Paris bureau, the studio works in situ on diverse projects within design, contemporary art and fashion. The applied rhetoric often revolves around photography, writing, the connection between the in- and exterior and profound conversations on (sub)cultures.
  

We see the invasion itself – the first explosions, evacuations to safer places, and convoys transporting relief supplies – and the absorption of war into everyday life, with schoolchildren routinely making their way to bomb shelters and women looking for their dead husbands at the morgue. These scenes are accompanied by a jarring soundscape evoking everything from panic to mute resignation, along with heart-wrenching audio clips from emergency calls.

The centerpiece is a hushed scene lasting several minutes that was filmed from a convoy transporting dead bodies, the route lined with local people kneeling at the side of the road. With patience, respect and an artist’s eye, the director captures the fear and disillusionment, the rage, the fighting spirit and the hope of a population under fire. (source: IDFA)