
Living in War: A Frontline City
Kherson sits split by the front line, with Ukrainian forces holding the north and Russian occupiers controlling the south. Oleksandr Chebotaryóv is the only radiologist left in the city; every colleague has fled, so he works shifts at two clinics just to keep basic imaging running. The film follows him through air raid alarms that send patients and staff scrambling to a basement bunker mid-treatment, and through the daily calculus of staying in a city under fire. Away from the hospital, his wife and five-year-old daughter live in western Ukraine, safer but still within reach of missiles, and the distance weighs on him as much as the danger does. Reporter Carolina Chimoy shoots inside the clinics, the bunker, and Chebotaryóv's home life, letting the routine of sirens and treatment stand in for the larger story of a medical system stripped down to one exhausted man. It is a close, specific portrait of what continuing to work in a contested city actually looks like, hour by hour.