Pictures: Oleksandr Valenyuk
A film premiere of a Ukrainian documentary film Life to the Limit was screened in Killarney on Wednesday night on the eve of the anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
A capacity attendance at the Great Southern Killarney was made up of a Ukrainian and Irish audience who learned about the formation and development of the Ukrainian resistance starting from the events of the Revolution of Dignity all the way to the full-scale war perpetrated by Russia against Ukraine.
This is the first and only film that covers the entire period of the Russian-Ukrainian war from 2014 to the present day.
Organisers of the event said they are very grateful to Ireland and the Irish people for their persistent support of Ukrainians.
“We greatly appreciate the desire of our Irish friends to learn more about our country and our modern, painful history,” they said.
The organisers of the film premiere said people couldn’t hold back tears while watching the movie and many in the audience recognised their hometowns and homes on the screen. Ukrainians discussed the film for a long time until the end of the screening.
The authors of the film are Ukrainian veterans, director Pavlo Peleshok and producer Yurko Ivanyshyn whose previous work, Winter on Fire was nominated for a Best Documentary Feature Oscar in 2016.
Peleshok and Ivanyshyn have been at war since 2014, defending Ukraine from Russian aggression and, in the process, the captured the reality on film and later processed 640 hours of archival material.
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