On the shores of Odesa in Southern Ukraine lies the imposing Kuyalnik Sanatorium, a crumbling Soviet era health facility that’s seen better days. Join us over a summer season where the ever-dwindling guests come for the rejuvenating mud treatments and strange electroshock therapies, in search of love, healing and happiness.

SANATORIUM offers a wry and vivid portrait of its pragmatic residents seeking love, healing and escape, and despite the very obvious backdrop of war, the community carries on, determined to find joy and restoration and some form of normality.

We booked this as it’s the opportunity for a rare an extraordinary insight into the lives of some people living in Ukraine, and it’s certainly a perspective we don’t see in the coverage of the war in the media. It’s touching, beautifully and stylishly shot, and shows a real yearning for better times.

It'a an Irish-Ukrainian production and is Ireland's entry this year to the Oscars.

“A declaration of love for the Ukrainian people, their spirit, and their resilience…

an oasis of respite” The Hollywood Reporter