Kinoteka On Tour: Under the Volcano

Screening as part of Kinoteka on Tour

A Ukrainian family of four on vacation in the Canary Islands become refugees overnight when Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full-scale invasion, in Damian Kocur’s tense and timely sophomore feature. At the foot of Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a Ukrainian family of four including father Roman, stepmother Anastasiia, and teenage daughter Sofia are on vacation. Enjoying their final beach day, they are blissfully unaware that their return flight to Kyiv will soon be cancelled as Russian bombs and rockets will fall on their country. While frantically awaiting news from home they are left wondering what to do and where to go. We see the world through Sofia’s Generation-Z perspective, sinking into the group’s inner guilt and their paradoxical issues with the safe place in which they for now have refuge. Before long, the most fraught aspects of the clan bubble to the surface and, like the nearby volcano, dormant conflicts threaten to explode anew.

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