Project Detail

Can I Go Home Now?

Can I Go Home Now?
A child ballerina dancing in a rubble-filled building

Synopsis

A cinematic documentary filmed inside active war zones in Ukraine that reframes how conflict is witnessed and remembered.
The film removes traditional narration, allowing only children's voices to shape its emotional and narrative architecture. Their testimonies unfold as a chorus of memory, loss, and fragile hope, transforming lived experience into a meditation on childhood under siege. Only Children's voices - no adults, no outside commentary, no mediation. The film's sonic landscape is shaped through an original symphonic score by Academy Award-winning composer A.R. Rahman and an original Ukrainian-language piece created with a Grammy-winning Ukrainian composer, extending the children's voices beyond image into sound. Through this union of image and music, the film resists commentary and invites the audience into an intimate, human encounter with a generation growing up inside conflict.

Details

Year
2026
Type of project
Features
Running time
101 min
Director
Pritan Ambroase 1st Feature
Producer
Pritan Ambroase
Co-Producer
Debasish Dutta
Executive Producer
Susan Bala, Dennis Davidson, Brooks Newmark
Editor
Jerzy Zawadzki, Hubert Pusek
Screenwriter
Pritan Ambroase
Director of Photography
Timofii Avramchuk
Production Designer
Andrii Buryanenko
Sound
Bartosz Putkiewicz
Composer
A.R. Rahman
Principal cast
With contributions from: Artem, Nastya, Sofia, Sasha, Valeria, Artem, Milana, Vitaliy, Nastya, Taras, Katja, Vova, Vlad, Kolya, Yuriy, Yelizavieta Brovii, Agatha Safonova, Anna Beliai, Anastasiia Bila, Daryna Huba, Ivan Patsai, Roman Radchneko

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Production Status

Production Company

Orange Corp (MU) Presents, A Cinessaince Motion Pictures (US) production.

In co-production with Orange Corp (MU), Hollywood Insider (US), Humans of Our World Foundation (UK, US), Matinee Film Fund (UK), Perspectiva Film (UA)
In association with Studio 32 (UK), ARR Studios (IN), Fixafilm (PL)

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