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Stay or go after Chernobyl? UCSB student film tells a mother’s story
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival features one foreign language film directed and produced by UCSB students. “ Mother of Chernobyl ” is a fictional tale about a very real event: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster of 1986.
By Matt Guilhem • • 8m ListenThe Santa Barbara International Film Festivalfeatures one foreign language film directed and produced by UCSB students.
“Mother of Chernobyl” is a fictional tale about a very real event: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster of 1986.
Following the meltdown of the Chernobyl plant, a young Ukrainian mother named Masha has two choices: stay in the only home she knows with her daughter, or flee the radiation zone.
