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Bakhmut, a small city in East of Ukraine, becomes an example of the dichotomy between the Soviet past and the present times. Until it finds the culmination of cultural and political borders in one product: the Soviet Champagne. The precarious, war-driven landscape and the dreams of financial stability dissolve in the remains of the leisure culture from the past.

Leri MATEHHA (b. in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian-German artist and filmmaker. She studied Philosophy and Scandinavian studies before graduating from the Academia of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany with an emphasis on media theory and cinema. Her films and video works have been exhibited and awarded internationally. 2020 she received a development grant by the Wim Wenders Foundations for her debut „W“. 2021/22 she was working as a postgrad researcher in Tel Aviv, Israel with the DAAD grant. She lives and works between Germany, Estonia and Israel.