Olga

Director: Elie Grappe Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2021 Language: French, Ukrainian, Russian w/ English subtitles

Starring: Caterina Barloggio, Nastya Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Tanya Mikhina, Thea Brogli

Tagline: Set in 2014, this award winning drama follows a talented gymnast as she leaves the Ukraine for Switzerland after her journalist mother is targeted by the Yanukovich regime on the eve of the Maidan Revolution. Kino Lorber, the film’s distributor, will donate 10% of ticket revenue to Direct Relief for their work in Ukraine.

Synopsis: A talented young gymnast from Kiev, played by real-life former Ukrainian national team member Anastasiia Budiashkina, moves to Switzerland to pursue her Olympic dreams in Elie Grappe’s award-winning drama. Set in 2014, the film follows 15-year-old Olga as she tries to make friends on her new team and adjust to life in her new home. As she relentlessly trains in preparation for the European Championships, her friends and family back in the Ukraine are taking to the streets in what would become known as the Maidan Revolution. Olga is left a powerless, distant bystander as her mother, an investigative journalist, faces danger and violence in her work challenging the brutal Yanukovich regime.