ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
With their country at war, Ukrainian artists embark on a quest of faith, identity and resistance.

SYNOPSIS
RULE OF TWO WALLS is an intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian artists who remain in their country to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.

The film presents the invasion of Ukraine as a war of memory, identity and truth. Using live music performance, painting, street art, and the act of filmmaking itself, it illuminates the war’s psychological frontlines: how to go to a restaurant or bar amid the near-constant blare of air-raid alarms and missile strikes; how to process, react and resist, while having to go about the rhythms of daily life.

Blurring the lines between what is seen in front of and behind the camera, the film probes what it means to make cinema in a time of war.

PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature

DIRECTOR David Gutnik
PRODUCER Olha Beskhmelnytsina, Sam Bisbee, Stacey Reiss
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Liev Schreiber, Jason Weinberg, Brett Etre, Lance Acord, Natalia Libet, Michelle Booso, Gil Elbaz
CO-PRODUCER Emily McCann Lesser