Denmark / Mar 19, 2025 / CPH:DOX
Welcome to Kuyalnyk Sanatorium. Ukraine's favourite frontline holiday resort.
1h 31min
Overall average
5.0/10
Trailer
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Plot
Despite a war raging close by, mud treatments and electroshock therapies continue at Kuyalnik Sanatorium, an enormous 1970s brutalist building on the shores of Odesa, where a small group search for love, healing, and happiness.
Genres
Documentary
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sanatorium |
| Original language | Український (UK) |
| Spoken languages | Український |
| Production countries | Ireland, Ukraine, France |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Venom Films, MetFilm Sales, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Petite Maison Production, BBC Storyville, Creative Europe Media |
| Official site | garorourke.com |
| Release date | 5 settembre 2025 |
| Executive producer | Greg Martin, Zak Brilliant, Tessa Louise-Salomé, Luc Sorrel, Emma Hindley |
| Production | Andrew Freedman, Ken Wardrop, Samantha Corr, Mariya Panasyuk, Sasha Cherniavsky |
| Editing | John Murphy, Gary Curran, Dominic Lord |
| Cinematography | Denys Melnyk, Vadym Smarchenko, Volodymyr Tomashevskyi |
| Assistant directors | Gar O'Rourke |
| Camera operators | Denys Melnyk, Vadym Smarchenko, Volodymyr Tomashevskyi |
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Release dates
Premiere
Switzerland / Apr 03, 2025 / Visions du Réel
Ukraine / Jun 06, 2025 / Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival
Estonia / Aug 08, 2025 / tARTuff Tartu Love Film Festival
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Germany / Sep 26, 2025 / Filmfest Hamburg
Australia / Oct 17, 2025 / Adelaide Film Festival
United Kingdom / Nov 06, 2025 / Women and the World International Film Festival
Poland / Nov 08, 2025 / Ukraine Film Festival Warsaw
Theatrical release
Ireland / Sep 05, 2025 / 15A
United Kingdom / Sep 05, 2025 / 15
Digital
Sweden / Oct 19, 2025 / SVT Play
United Kingdom / Oct 21, 2025 / BBC iPlayer
TV
United Kingdom / Oct 21, 2025 / BBC Four
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