Donbas, 2019. The prospect of a new Russian invasion hangs in the air, while the sound of the gunfire resulting from the old one can still be heard in the distance. In this seemingly bleak wartime setting, five teenagers start to think seriously about their future. Their energy, enthusiasm, and hope allow them to fully live out their last golden hours of childhood despite the circumstances. The members of this imaginative band of dreamers paint, take photographs, fantasise about acting careers, or becoming the next Elon Musk. They rebel, ride the waves of adventure, walk into minefields and sunbathe by a local lake. They dream of escaping not only from the war, but also – like teenagers all over the world – from the boredom of a small town. Then, an opportunity to embark on a long journey all the way to Nepal unexpectedly arises. Will their dream of conquering the world come true?

Directed by: Alisa Kovalenko

Written by: Alisa Kovalenko

Produced by: Yana Kalmykova, Valeriy Kalmykov, Aleksey Kobelev, Stephane Siohan, Kasia Kuczyńska, Tomasz Morawski

Cinematography: Serhiy Stetsenko, Alisa Kovalenko

Editing: Maryna Maykovska, Kasia Boniecka

Sound: Mariia Nesterenko

Original Score: Wojciech Frycz

Original Title: МИ НЕ ЗГАСНЕМО

Film Production Country: Ukraine

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Biography of the Director/s
Alisa Kovalenko is a member of the European Film Academy, a Ukrainian documentary film director whose films have won numerous awards at international film festivals, member of the European Film Academy. She was born on September 24, 1987 in the city of Zaporizhia. Studied at Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko in the Faculty of Journalism. In 2010, she entered the Kyiv National University of Theater and Cinema and television named after I.I. K. Karpenko-Kary, who graduated in 2015 with a degree in documentary directing the movie In the same year, she graduated from the Andrzej Wajda School (DOK PRO documentary film course) in Warsaw.
The international premiere of her second documentary feature film Alice in the Land of War about war in eastern Ukraine took place in Amsterdam at the largest documentary film festival in the world – IDFA 2015, the film won three main awards at festivals in France, Mexico and Morocco. After which Alisa Kovalenko also became a co-author and co-director of the documentary together with George Zheno the theatrical performance about the experience of captivity Polon, which premiered in 2016 at The Three Countries festival at the Gerhart Hauptmann-Theater Gorlitz-Zittau (Zittau, Germany). The world premiere of her second feature-length documentary, a social drama about the life of a young woman
of the Kyiv soccer player, Home Games, took place at the international film festival in Great Britain Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018. The film was presented at about 100 international festivals, received 11 awards, and was also nominated as the best Ukrainian documentary in Ukrainian national film award "Golden Dzyga". In the summer of 2018, she was the chief editor and co-director of a 10-episode documentary series about women's football in Ukraine, which was broadcast on Current Time TV (Czech Republic) and First: UA (Ukraine). At the beginning of 2021, Alisa Kovalenko she also became the programmer of the International International Documentary Debut Film Competition Molodist film festival. Since the beginning of 2019, he has been working on his new author's documentary film We Will Not Fade Away.
Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has served in the Ukrainian army in 2022.

Filmography of the Director/s
2023 - WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY, Documentary
2018 - HOME GAMES, Documentary
2015 - ALISA IN WARWORLD, Documentary
2014 - SISTER ZO, Documentary

Production Company:
Trueman Production
Yana Kalmykova
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Press:
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