Stay Behind: My Grandfather's Secret War

Without words this audiovisual documentary poem gives a perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war's impact on civil life in Ukraine. The explosion of everyday life environment, destruction, meaninglessness everyday traces left, things and people are equally scattered on the ground. People bring their dogs as pets on the flight and dogs left behind run wildly around eating remains.

We follow Angus the hospital clown as his relationship with the six-year old Tobias evolves into a friendship that just might help Tobias beat the cancer. This is a story about being all alone and having someone to be alone with.