Searching for Nika 

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine, film director Stas Kapralov’s family dog, Nika, escaped amidst the chaos of the evacuation. Determined to find her, Stas set off into the devastation and documents his journey as his search introduces him to a world of volunteers rescuing the many animals victims of the war. We enter Europes largest dog shelter that is still receiving emaciated dogs daily. Elsewhere, we find Ostrich farms and horse stables, ravaged by the war – the Ostriches used as target practise by the occupying forces, and the horses drowned following the bombing of a dam. We meet Olena who is tasked with rescuing an abandoned lion, Ruru, and transporting her to Poland. Later, Stas journeys to Harkov, experiencing mortar shelling first-hand, as he becomes part of urgent evacuations of animals at a zoo actively being bombed, and where two volunteers had been killed in previous days. What begins as a journey motivated by the disappearance of his dog, Nika, becomes a mission to document and aid in a humanitarian movement to help as many animals as possible in Ukraine. Documenting and participating in this journey, Stas discovers stories of altruism and humanity amidst the harshest landscape of war… and by the end of his journey, Stas finally finds out what happened to his dog Nika.