Chernobyl-2: Life After (2026)

Three decades back, a young girl sat watching her parents exchange vows, the image of white lilies clasped in her mother's hands seared into her memory. Now, she stands at the threshold of her own wedding in Dnipro, a Ukrainian city scarred by years of conflict and the wail of air raid alarms. Her father had been a liquidator at Chernobyl, one of those who battled the nuclear catastrophe's aftermath. He likened himself and his comrades to "larks" — the birds that soar first into the spring heavens — and dubbed his fight to stay alive after the disaster "Chernobyl-2." Then in 2022, a fresh calamity crashed into the lives of his wife Tanya and daughter Katya: Russia's full-scale assault on Ukraine. Weaving together archival reels captured over two decades ago with footage filmed amid the ongoing war, Chernobyl-2: Life After follows how one disaster reverberates into another — and how a family dwelling in the long shadow of Chernobyl and war keeps on loving, laughing, surviving, and pressing ahead.