The Editorial Office

Roman Bondarchuk’s inventive satirical drama skewers post-truth politics in Ukraine in the days before the Russian invasion. Yura, a young biologist searching for an endangered species of marmot on the wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, witnesses arsonists starting a forest fire. Taking his photographs to the editorial office of the local newspaper, he realises that no one is interested in pursuing justice. His worldview is upended by encounters with fake news, electoral fraud and cryptocurrency get-rich schemes and all the while, war is looming on the horizon.