Закатований хлопець, який змінив Краматорськ | документальний фільм «На захід від сходу»

The film “West of East” is about Kramatorsk, a city that since 2014 has become the administrative center of the Donetsk region and one of the strongest pillars of Ukrainanness in the Donetsk region. A city that since 2022 has walked the fine line between life in independent Ukraine and life under occupation. "West of East" shows Kramatorsk through the eyes of journalist Alla Sadovnyk and Stalina Chubenko, the mother of a 16-year-old boy who became a symbol of Kramatorsk's resilience. Stepan Chubenko was awarded the III degree Order "For Courage" and the title "People's Hero of Ukraine". Posthumously. 10 years ago, terrorists kidnapped him, a 16-year-old boy, when he was returning from Kyiv to his native Kramatorsk. Four shots and before that, harassment and torture were the terrorists' answer for his pro-Ukrainian position and for Stepan's desire to live in a sovereign Ukraine. CHAPTERS: 00:45 - Stepan Chubenko writes to the Little Prince 02:06 - A journalist decides to discover Kramatorsk through its residents 04:26 - Meeting Stepan Chubenko's mother 07:25 - Kramatorsk residents' dispute about the city 10:48 - The journalist realizes that she needs to delay her story because of the approaching frontline 11:39 - Childhood and school years of Stepan Chubenko 14:40 - Kramatorsk is changing. Meeting a barista 19:10 - How Stepan Chubenko became number one in the Avangard football team 24:02 - A journalist admits how her attitude to cities in eastern Ukraine has changed during the war 25:02 - Internally displaced persons, pensioners and a Russian woman - volunteer headquarters in Kramatorsk 29:25 - The occupation of Kramatorsk in 2014. The beginning of Stepan's struggle 32:25 - “You wouldn't have liked it here in 2014” - meeting a pastor with dreadlocks 36:57 - The journalist tells the chronology of events before the detention of Stepan Chubenko by terrorists 38:14 - How Stalina Chubenko was looking for her son 39:00 - How Stalina found out that her son was shot 39:40 - Rocket attack on Kramatorsk in November 2024 40:57 - Details of the investigation into the murder of Stepan Chubenko 42:01 - Identification of the murderers and the verdict in absentia of the Ukrainian court 43:30 - Why Ukraine failed to extradite Stepan's killers 45:09 - What is happening now with the murderers of Stepan Chubenko 47:30 - Stalina Chubenko cleans up her son's grave and shows the broken monument 50:26 - Stalina presents a book with works by Stepan Chubenko in Kramatorsk 52:44 - Stalina leaves for Poltava, because of the approaching front, leaving more and more people behind 53:20 - A conductor of the Kramatorsk-Kherson train asks for more weapons for Ukraine 55:30 - What the journalist hopes for after getting to know Kramatorsk 57:38 - A letter from Stepan Chubenko to the Little Prince