“Stay Online,” a Ukraine war drama from director Yeva Strelnikova which uses the innovative Screenlife format, has dropped a trailer ahead of its world premiere July 22 at Montreal’s Fantasia…
Set after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, the film begins when a young woman volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. She’s asked to install a sensitive military application and deliver the laptop to her brother serving on the frontline.
“Stay Online” was written by Strelnikova and Anton Skrypets and produced by AMO Pictures, Mamas Production and OUP Fiction. The producers are Skrypets, Anatolii Dudinskyi, Maryna Kvasova and Alla Lipovetska. XYZ Films is handling North American sales. “It is broadcast every minute,” she said. “Screenlife is our new reality. And our only opportunity to find out if a person dear to you is alive, whether he died under rockets, whether his car was not shot. ‘Stay online,’ for me, it is not only a call to ‘get in touch,’ but also about how to stay alive.”
The intense psychological strain of the war, and the trauma of that particular atrocity, made filming “Stay Online” a challenge, said Strelnikova. “I remember the day when we witnessed the Bucha tragedy in photos. The time was so emotional and painful that many actors refused to play.”
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