‘Sanatorium is a strikingly cinematic, affectionately droll study of Ukrainian resilience in the face of war’ ScreenDaily
World Premiere: CPH DOX
WINNER: Best Documentary Galway Film Fleadh 2025, Audience Jury Award Krakow 2025
SELECTED: Edinburgh International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Visions du Real, Galway Film Fleadh, Sheffield Film Festival, Tartuff 2025, Krakow Film Festival, Beldocs, DocuDays Ukraine.
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.
Director: Gar O’Rourke
Producer: Andrew Freedman, Ken Wardrop, Samantha Corr
Editor: John Murphy
Director of Photography: Denys Melnyk
A Venom Films production for Screen Ireland and BBC Storyville.
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