The fundraising campaign is planned to last for 40 days.
The documentary, entitled “Donbass, the war in the very heart of Europe,” is directed by Ibai Trebino and Mikel Arregi. The film will be translated into Spanish, Basque and English.
Material for the film was collected in Ukraine, including in the territories controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, from March to July 2015.
The director of the film, who is also a journalist, decided to make the documentary after several visits to the conflict zone, so that the Western public could see that not far from their homes a war is being fought, where people are dying and being forced to flee their homes.
“The documentary aims to explain the conflict from a human prospective, so that people can understand what war is,” the journalist told Sputnik.
“It is the Ukrainian Army that bombed Donbas, not Russia, as they say here,” Trebino claimed.
According to the filmmaker, while in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, people have heating and food, Donbass residents are suffering a humanitarian crisis.
Ukraine’s southeast has been mired in conflict since April 2014, when the Kiev authorities launched a military operation against independence supporters in Donetsk and Lugansk, who refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government that came to power after what they considered to be a coup.
According to UN data, over 8,000 people have died in the conflict.
In February, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France worked out the Minsk peace agreement on Ukrainian reconciliation, signed by the Kiev forces and the militias of the eastern Ukrainian regions.
