
DICTIONARY OF EMOTIONS IN A TIME OF WAR
OFFICIAL SELECTION - DOC NYC | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Ann Arbor Film Festival | "A remarkable piece of filmmaking." - Shortstick Films War • Ukraine • Russia • Politics • Women's Issues • Processing Trauma through Art • Immigration • Love • Isolation Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 12 minutes | Language: English, Ukrainian, & Russian with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director/Producer: Leah Loftin | Writer: Olena Astasieva | Illustrator/Animator: Aura Lewis | Intro Sequence Animator: Bridget Johnson | Music: Nathan Halpern & Chris Ruggiero | Narrator: Leah Loftin It is February 2022 and Putin has just invaded Ukraine. First-hand accounts from a woman living in Russian-occupied Kherson illuminate the psychological, pragmatic, and emotional response to an abrupt new life in war time. DICTIONARY OF EMOTIONS IN A TIME OF WAR is an experimental nonfiction film adapted from the testimonials of Olena Astasieva, a Ukrainian playwright living in Khe