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Netflix's Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
SF Weekly:Netflix won’t be late to the Oscar game with its push for Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom in the race for Best Documentary Feature.
This feature-length work from filmmaker Evginy Afineevsky pulls from the tail end of his time documenting the growing dissent in Ukraine during the reign of the corrupt President, Viktor Yanukovych. In late 2013, while Afineevsky was filming in Kiev, peaceful protests at Maidan Square turned bloody. A revolutionary war broke out between student protesters, their sympathizers, and the militaristic police employed by Yanukovych, known as Berkut (and who bear a striking resemblance to Star Wars’ Imperial Stormtroopers).
The film chronicles the entire arc of the movement, from its beginning in the central square to its devolution into the full-scale, violent revolution that made world headlines. In several sequences, massive groups of people participate in large-scale collaboration. They display a unity that is distinctly absent from our own society.
Over the course of 93 days, tensions rose between the government and the opposition. Over a million people eventually came to the aid of those who would be soldiers in the fight for Ukraine’s self-determination. As viewers watch the movement grow exponentially, everyone — from ex-military men teaching war tactics, to women acting as nurses, to wealthy car owners guarding the base with their vehicles — act as cavalry for the growing resistance.
This feature-length work from filmmaker Evginy Afineevsky pulls from the tail end of his time documenting the growing dissent in Ukraine during the reign of the corrupt President, Viktor Yanukovych. In late 2013, while Afineevsky was filming in Kiev, peaceful protests at Maidan Square turned bloody. A revolutionary war broke out between student protesters, their sympathizers, and the militaristic police employed by Yanukovych, known as Berkut (and who bear a striking resemblance to Star Wars’ Imperial Stormtroopers).
The film chronicles the entire arc of the movement, from its beginning in the central square to its devolution into the full-scale, violent revolution that made world headlines. In several sequences, massive groups of people participate in large-scale collaboration. They display a unity that is distinctly absent from our own society.
Over the course of 93 days, tensions rose between the government and the opposition. Over a million people eventually came to the aid of those who would be soldiers in the fight for Ukraine’s self-determination. As viewers watch the movement grow exponentially, everyone — from ex-military men teaching war tactics, to women acting as nurses, to wealthy car owners guarding the base with their vehicles — act as cavalry for the growing resistance.
Who knew the CIA had such movie-making chops?
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