Ukrainian documentary about Donbas, Syria wars triumphs at Florence film festival

“This Rain Will Never Stop,” a documentary film by Ukrainian director Alina Gorlova, won the main prize at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy on Nov. 23.

The documentary chronicles the life of a young Kurdish man who flees with his parents to Ukraine from the war in their native Syria. In Ukraine, he chooses to become a Red Cross volunteer in another conflict: Russia’s war against Ukraine. But his father’s death forces him to return to his homeland.