Review of Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2022) by Leila Latif for IndieWire — 14 Dec 2022

It’s a challenge to conclude a documentary on an ongoing and fast-evolving conflict. The news will continue to tally up the dead bodies and destroyed cities, from which the film refuses to allow us to distance our emotions.

But where “Freedom on Fire” proves valuable isn’t in the brutality of the corpses but in the reminder that these are individual people being broken, and real families being torn apart.