Olga

Olga (Anastasia Budyashkina) is a talented
teenage Ukrainian gymnast exiled in
Switzerland, dreaming of Olympic gold and
trying to fit in with her new team in her new
home. As she prepares for the European
Championships, the Ukrainian people back
home in Kyiv rise up in what has become
known as the Maidan Revolution, suddenly
involving everyone she cares about. Olga is left
a powerless, distant bystander as her mother,
an investigative journalist, faces danger as
she challenges the brutal Yanukovich regime.
Incorporating documentary footage from the
2013 uprising, Olga is a tense, sensitively
handled tale of exile reflecting the clash
between the personal and the political in a
young woman’s search for identity.