On Friday 14 October, at 20.00, at the Maxxi Museum, on the occasion of the 17th edition of the Rome Film Festival 2022, Kordon (Border), the documentary directed by Alice Tomassini and produced by Vatican Media and Tenderstories, will be presented.

Kordon tells the story of five Ukrainian volunteers, who are in a station on the outskirts of Zahony, fighting a non-violent war, shuttling between Ukraine and Hungary to restore hope to a people under attack. A moving portrait of female resistance, courage and solidarity.

Their stories are mirrored in those of the more than seven million women and children who fled the war, crossing a line as invisible as it is concrete as the border between two states, leaving behind their lives. The feature film emphasises the importance of the role of women as peacemakers in the face of a world that seems to have gone mad.

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