The film recreates gradual transition of the society from peaceful life to the state of war. Shot in March-April 2014 in Donbas, it follows the transformation of social protest into an armed revolt, supported by covert foreign invasion. The film doesn't focus on individual stories, instead showing the mechanisms of inflaming the war that led to the social collapse.

Oleksiy Radynski, Tomáš Rafa "People Who Came to Power" (2015)

Oleksiy Radynski is a filmmaker and writer based in Kyiv. He is a participant at the Visual Culture Research Center – an initiative for art, knowledge, and politics founded in Kyiv in 2008.

Tomáš Rafa was born in 1979 and lives in Warsaw. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and in the studio of digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.