Silent Flood

Name: Silent Flood
Start: 2026-10-05T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-05T13:35:00+00:00
Location: De Balie

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In Silent Flood you follow a pacifist religious community in Ukraine that lives cut off from the outside world. The film shows how this community deals with the Russian invasion, without showing violence. Can be seen at De Balie in Amsterdam.

Silent Flood

Dates

Mon 5 Oct12:00 - 13:35

Location

De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam

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A community living outside the world

The documentary Silent Flood takes you to a closed religious community in Ukraine, the so-called 'kashketniky'. Similar to the Amish, these people live according to their own strict rules: no electricity, no modern medicine, no marriages outside the community and no participation in the army. They live on the Dniester river, in a landscape where the front lines of both the First and Second World War once ran.

War up close, without showing violence

What makes the film special is how it shows the Russian invasion of Ukraine without ever showing a soldier in combat. You see how the community reacts to a war that is taking place just outside their world. This provides an incisive look at the contrast between a quiet, secluded existence and the chaos of an armed conflict.

Documentary to be seen at De Balie in Amsterdam

Silent Flood is showing in the cinema of De Balie, the cultural and political centre at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam. Are you interested? Use the link on this page to book tickets.