Golden Retrievers And Palomino Ponies To The Rescue: In ‘After The Rain,’ Ukrainian Children Abducted By Russia Find Healing With Help From Animals
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Russian atrocities in Ukraine have been powerfully documented in a range of nonfiction films – among them, 20 Days in Mariupol, Freedom on Fire, The Cranes Call, and the short documentary Bucha 22.
But one stunning dimension of Russia’s brutal war of conquest has received comparatively scant attention: the Kremlin scheme to abduct thousands of Ukrainian children and deport them to Russia.
A new feature documentary directed and produced by Sarah McCarthy at last puts the focus on that shocking reality. After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home, executive produced by doc legend Sheila Nevins, held a preview screening last week hosted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.
McCarthy attended the event with the film’s main protagonist, 15-year-old Veronika Vlasova, who was seized by Russian forces after they captured her village in Eastern Ukraine in the early days of the invasion.
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