The first episode of the documentary series Gone with the Water tells the story of Oleksandr Dubyna from Cherkasy region and his grandmother Oksana Hrygorivna. The woman tells her grandson the story of her native village Bubniv, which was evicted due to the construction of the Kremenchuk Reservoir and was to be flooded. The protagonist has questions about the scale and meaning of the resettlement of thousands of people and he begins to look for answers.
The second episode of the documentary series Gone with the Water is about the beginning of the resettlement of the villages along the Dnipro from the flood zone of the Kremenchuk Reservoir.
The protagonist of the film Oleksandr Dubyna, together with eyewitnesses of the resettlement and experts, is looking for answers to the question: why was the reservoirs built at all? Was it necessary to flood such large areas? What did people do when they heard the news of the resettlement and who helped them with it?
The third episode of the documentary series Gone with the Water tells the story of the flooded city of Novoheorhiivsk, the construction of new “model” settlements, the fight of the village of Revivka for their lands, as well as the transfer of cemeteries.
The series Gone with the Water about the history of flooding of 200 villages along the Dnipro during the construction of the Kremenchuk Reservoir won the art competition of TV projects within the program Create with Suspilne.
Created and produced by Oleksii Khutornyi. Oleksii Khutorny and Yevhen Artemenko are cameramen. Animation done by Vera Buriak and Vladyslav Volkov. Produced by Olena Banina.