Silent Flood

Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by floods and eventually an unexpected war.

A closed religious community in Ukraine has chosen to live in a beautiful landscape, where the front lines of both World War I and World War II once passed. It’s a sunny village filled with the laughter of children from large families. Yet, the community’s peaceful life is frequently disrupted by floods and war — two points serving as moments of reckoning in their memory. Nature and war are both relentless forces that take lives. The community comes together to overcome the aftermath of floods. The flood alters community life, just as the country is reshaped by war. Together with the community, we observe transformations, where the current war intertwines with the past ones, but the feeling of home can never be taken away from anyone.

director and scriptwriter Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

producer Karina Kostyna, Eugene Rachkovsky

co-producer Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer

associate producers Reijer Zwaan, Ester Gould

 DoPs Ivan Morarash, Oleksandr Korotun, Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

commissioning editors Catherine Le Goff, Thomas Beyer

editors Mykola Bazarkin, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

sound supervisors Serhii Avdieiev, Sebastian Schmidt, Olaf Mehl

director's assistant Halyna Lavrinets

producer's assistants Viktoriia Horodynska, Mykhailo Panchuk, Marie Riedel

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Competition - IDFA Award for Best Cinematography