TO DIE TO LIVE
synopsis
After enduring horrors during the War in the Eastern part of Ukraine (2015), three young Ukrainian war veterans return home, both stronger than before and full of scars. They try to find out how to belong in this old but new reality and win their private wars, try to understand how to live civil life. But in February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine started and they are faced with new challenges of reality. What experience do the heroes gain in these wars, and how are they initiated by accepting death?
| international title: | To Die to Live |
| original title: | To Die to Live |
| country: | Ukraine, Latvia, Slovakia |
| year: | 2026 |
| genre: | documentary |
| directed by: | Yuliia Hontaruk |
| film run: | 122' |
| screenplay: | Yuliia Hontaruk |
| cinematography by: | Denys Strashnyi, Yurii Gruzinov, Yuliia Hontaruk |
| film editing: | Roman Liubyi, Ugis Olte, Mykola Bazarkin, Yuliia Hontaruk, Iryna Stetsenko, Pavlo Zelenov, Petro Tsymbal |
| music: | Anton Baibakov, Miroslav Tóth, Anton Dehtiarov |
| producer: | Yuliia Hontaruk, Ivanna Khitsinska, Alexandra Bratyshchenko, Uldis Cekulis, Katarína Krnácová, Ihor Savychenko |
| production: | Babylon'13, Directory Films, VFS Films, Silverart |

















