Alisa Kovalenko stands in a Toronto cinema after the screening of her documentary, We Will Not Fade Away. She’s surrounded by audience members reaching out to shake her hand, many just saying: “Thank you.”
The 35-year-old filmmaker’s documentary is part of the Made in Ukraine series at the annual Hot Docs Festival, which is wrapping up Sunday in Toronto.
We Will Not Fade Away tells the story of the five Ukrainian teens, on the cusp of adulthood, living in the eastern Donbas region before Russia’s 2022 invasion, where they dream about their future and training for what they call “an adventure therapy trek” in
