Zagreb Dox
Doclands Film Festival
Docs Without Borders Film Festival

The Long Breakup is a feature length documentary about Ukraine’s struggle to escape Russia’s embrace, leave its Soviet past behind and become a truly independent nation. Ukrainian-American journalist Katya Soldak, of Forbes Magazine, now living in New York City, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR, works through two revolutions, and endures a war with Russia—all through the eyes of her family and friends in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city just 19 miles from the Russian border. Filmed over the course of a decade, The documentary takes viewers on an intimate journey that illustrates how big geopolitical changes affect people on a personal level, and explores what happens when democracy slips away and a nation must fight for the right to choose its future.

United States - 2020 - 1h 25m
Directed By: Katya Soldak
Written By: Katya Soldak