Sanatorium
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“Welcome to Kuyalnyk Sanatorium. Ukraine's favourite frontline holiday resort.”
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.
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Gar O'Rourke Director · Denys Melnyk Cinematographer John Murphy Editor
First release March 19, 2025 · Produced in Ireland, Ukraine, France · Production MetFilm Sales, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Production
Venom Films
Production
MetFilm Sales
Production
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Production
Petite Maison Production
Production
BBC Storyville
Production
Creative Europe Media
Production
Ireland · Ukraine · France
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Denmark · March 19, 2025
Premiere · CPH:DOX
Ireland · September 5, 2025
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Australia
August 12, 2025 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
October 17, 2025 · Premiere · Adelaide Film Festival
May 27, 2026 · Premiere · Ukrainian Film Festival Australia
Estonia
August 8, 2025 · Premiere · tARTuff Tartu Love Film Festival
Germany
September 26, 2025 · Premiere · Filmfest Hamburg
October 25, 2025 · Premiere · Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin
Poland
November 8, 2025 · Premiere · Ukraine Film Festival Warsaw
Sweden
October 19, 2025 · Digital · SVT Play
Switzerland
April 3, 2025 · Premiere · Visions du Réel
Ukraine
June 6, 2025 · Premiere · Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival
United Kingdom
September 5, 2025 · Theatrical
October 21, 2025 · Digital · BBC iPlayer
October 21, 2025 · TV · BBC Four
November 6, 2025 · Premiere · Women and the World International Film Festival
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