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Sanatorium
In a vast, crumbling Soviet-era sanatorium on the shores of Odesa, thousands arrive each summer in search of healing. Some come for the legendary black mud, rumoured to cure everything, from infertility to joint pain. Others are looking for something less tangible: connection, laughter, even love.\n\nOnce a jewel of Soviet medicine, the brutalist complex now stands as a surreal time capsule, its pink and lime green corridors echoing not only with the sounds of therapies and romance but with the distant rumble of war.\n\nFilmed during a single extraordinary summer, this documentary introduces an unforgettable cast of patients and staff navigating daily life under the shadow of conflict. With humour, warmth and a deep affection for its subjects, a Ukraine you rarely see is revealed: defiant, tender, absurd and alive.\n\nA bittersweet, tragicomic portrait of humanity and hope in the unlikeliest of places.
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