The animated short film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" tells the story of a little girl who wakes up from explosions and tries to survive in a burning city in the first days of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To escape, she has to go through the destroyed streets, facing the unknown and trusting destiny. Later, as an elderly woman, that once-young girl will return to Mariupol and remember everything.

The film was initiated by Gogolfest, the biggest multidisciplinary festival of contemporary art in Ukraine, which has been deeply involved in the cultural life of Mariupol over the past 5 years, and was also created as part of a creative collaboration in the "Belief Matters" project between the German team "Ogalala Kreuzberg" and Mariupol-based team "Theatromaniia".

Even before Russia started the full-scale war against Ukraine, the ukrainian harbour city of Mariupol was a place, where the latent threat to the country from Russia was part of everyday reality.
Located in Donbass region in the south-east of the country, Mariupol was separated only 20 km from the border to the occupied areas of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Because of its exposed location as the last purely ukrainian city before the demarcation line, Mariupol always had a special geostrategic importance not only for Ukraine itself, but also for the whole Europe.

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION INVADED THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE ON FEBRUARY 24, 2022 AT 5 AM.
MARIUPOL HAS BEEN BOMBED SINCE THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR. ABOUT 90% OF THE CITY IS DESTROYED THERE. THIS WAS A PLACE OF HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE.
ON MAY 20, 2022 MARIUPOL HAS BEEN OCCUPIED. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN THE CITY NOW...
WE BELIEVE THAT MARIUPOL WILL BE UKRAINE AGAIN!