Porcelain War, a documentary about Kharkiv artists by Ukrainian Slava Leontiev and American Brendan Bellomo, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, announced the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Porcelain War tells the story of three Ukrainian artists—Slava Leontiev himself, his wife Ania Stasenko, and their friend Andrii Stefanov—who stayed in Kharkiv at the start of Russia’s all-out war.
Living in the city under the onslaught of air raids, they kept creating their art—painted porcelain sculptures—and using them to decorate the buildings that were destroyed or damaged by Russian attacks.
