The form of Porcelain War is directly shaped by its subjects, artists turned filmmakers in an active war zone.

Anya chose to focus on beauty.

She said, "Destruction, all of it looks the same but what could be lost."

The beauty of people and the things that they love, that's what's unique and that's what we need to focus on.

So they chose where to point the cameras, and they poured their artistic instincts into how they captured their lives in the middle of war-torn Kharkiv.

Anya and Slava are capturing the Russian invasion of Ukraine within their artwork.

And they're looking at not only what's happening now, but their peaceful past in Crimea before the war, the early days of the invasion where they couldn't bring a camera, and even exploring their dreams for the future.

And so these were all places where we don't have a time machine to bring the camera there, but their artwork itself allowed us to travel through time and through emotion and through a personal perspective.

The freedom to live and create is so fragile, and what's happening in Ukraine could happen to anyone in the world.

Democracy is under threat and as is shown in the film, everyday people play a vital role in standing up to protect it.