Sep 24, 2022 – WARNING: Strong, haunting images. Just sharing and adding English subtitles. This is Anne-Laure’s latest documentary. The images are mostly from February/March 2022, so there’s nothing very new. But it’s a good recap from what’s being going on since 2014 over there, now that there is a referendum. In the end, what do the people there want? I would think that it doesn’t matter so much if it’s a Russian, DPR or Ukrainian flag, as long as they don’t have to live under perpetual bombings. We can’t pretend that those people were living in peace before 2022, so everything must start from there. May they have peace, and we, too. We don’t need this bad remake of World War II, with soldiers on each side roleplaying Nazis and Soviets, neither we need further destruction in the name of Western democracy, or whatever NATO’s excuse is now. The people living there want peace, and we want it too. Nobody wants WWIII. Thanks. No copyright infringement intended. Anne Laure Bonnel’s official channel is here (French)

“Donbass, 8 years later” (Anne-Laure Bonnel, September 2022) – English Translation via Tom

Anne’s original video in French (description is machine-translated by Google):

Premiered Sep 8, 2022 – After a first documentary, Donbass, shot in the east in 2015, I retrace my steps in 2022.

This film is dedicated to all civilians in all wars.

The atmosphere is heavy.

It is February 24, 2022. I’m back in the Donbass. The Russian offensive is spreading throughout the country.

Banned from Ukraine since 2015, I will not be able to go to kyiv. I will not receive any positive response to my expectation of an official authorization.

These images tell the daily life of Donetsk civilians. The population here too continues to descend into hell.

A war that began in 2014 and never really stopped.

Donbass is there to rebalance the debate. To give voice to those who are at the heart of the conflict and yet whom we see and hear little. So that there may be another way of conceiving this conflict, sheltered from propagandist discourse and unassumed positions. The film is not there to determine which of the Ukrainian government or the Russian government is more culpable.

Donbass does not seek to demonstrate one theory or defend one camp over the other. Its objective is to show the daily life of Eastern civilian populations plunged into the torment of war. To understand what these inhabitants may feel.

Donbass does not claim to be objective, neutral or exhaustive. Donbass is a documentary film, which is why Donbass wants to be subjective.

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Donbass, huit ans après/Donbass, eight years later – Anne-Laure Bonnel