This is the story of five-year-old Lina, the seventh child of a family of eight children, who is caught between the frontlines of free Kherson and Russian occupied Kherson. Lina's mom will take you through a rollercoaster of emotions from a spine-chilling rescue, taking the family deep into Russia to reaching free Ukraine. There they strive for a normal life - only to discover that this brutal war has left deep scars on Lina.

Trailer: https://myumi.ch/VVXZM

Mykola Kuleba is a Ukrainian humanitarian and pioneer of the children's rights movement in Ukraine. From 2006 to 2014, Mykola served as the head of Kyiv's Children's Service, and from 2014 to 2021, he was the Commissioner of the President for Children's Rights. With over 26 years of dedication to child welfare, Mykola has gained global recognition for his work. As the co-founder and head of Save Ukraine, Mykola leads efforts to rescue, protect, and support the most vulnerable victims of Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine, including children and families displaced or affected by war. Save Ukraine has evacuated over 105,000 people from frontlines, rescued over 100 children forcibly deported to Russia and from temporarily occupied territories, and provided essential resources and trauma recovery services to tens of thousands.

Awards and Recognitions:
Magnitsky Human Rights Award – for Outstanding Human Rights Activist, 2023
International Four Freedoms Award – 2024
OXI Courage Award – 2023
Manhae Peace Prize – 2023
Last Girl Award – 2023

Nathaniel A. Raymond is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan.

Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27 is a historian of modern Ukraine and the Soviet Union, with a particular interest in Russian and Ukrainian relations, human age, generation, and gender. Her work examines the function of generation and human age in Soviet history and works to insert the stories of underrepresented populations, such as the elderly and women, into consequential debates about stagnation, cultural life, Soviet collapse, post-Soviet economic and political development, and the Russo-Ukrainian war.

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