3. Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Site Score: 8, IMDb Score: 10 Overall Score: 18
Directed by Evgeny Afineevsky
Year: 2015
It started as a protest against government’s decision to stop Ukraine’s European integration. 93 days later, in ended in a revolution and a de facto war with Russia. The bloody struggle that overthrew the entire government structure mostly took place in now famous Kiev’s Maidan square, where more than a million people from all over Ukraine protested the corruption of Victor Yanukovych’s regime. In the midst of gunfire, tear gas and police beatings, they manage to oust Yanukovych, who promptly fled the country and sought refuge in Moscow. Evgeny Afineevsky’s film illustrates those 93 days and the events that led to it.
