Film Discussion: The War Syndrome. I’m Used to Killing

Please join the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University and the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for discussion with Olena Solodovnikova, director of the feature documentary The War Syndrome. I’m Used to Killing (2020). Professor Yuri Shevchuk will moderate a discussion and Q&A.

Attendees can watch the film on YouTube prior to the discussion. The event on September 29 will not include a screening of the film.

The War Syndrome tells the stories of former fighters who defended Ukraine in the Ukrainian-Russian war, and subsequently lost everything as hostages of post-traumatic stress disorder. An invisible killer, PTSD alienates veterans from all that is dear to them: their family, their health, and their faith in the future. As they are forced to continuously relive the war even in the midst of otherwise peaceful lives, some who survived fighting in the Donbas die by suicide.