Stay Online

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Stay Online

2023

1h 50m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father, the laptop's previous owner, who went missing during the Russian army's invasion in Bucha. Reluctantly, she agrees to help find his missing parents--a decision that will ultimately force her to risk the lives of her own loved ones.

Nick Allen

RogerEbert.com

A mournful, hopeful, and engaging tribute to the resilience of the Ukrainian people.

Aug 1, 2023

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Nadine Whitney

AWFJ.org

Stay Online is an astonishing film and one you cannot look away from even for a second. A reminder to the world that we should also be not looking away from Ukraine.

Sep 6, 2023

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Matt Donato

Slashfilm

"Stay Online" is a screenlife tour de force that recontextualizes the contemporary horrors of war across digital minefields.

Rated: 8/10

Aug 13, 2023

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Spencer Perry

ComicBook.com

Though the film itself has a unique place in the larger landscape of modern politics, it does stretch itself very thin by frequently inventing new reasons for the story to keep going rather than resolve.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 10, 2023

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

When the film is as its most tense, it is almost unbearable.

Rated: 7/10

Aug 1, 2023

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Lags and sags in so many places, which is a shame since leading actress Liza Zaitseva really is very good.

Jul 27, 2023

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Synopsis

A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father, the laptop's previous owner, who went missing during the Russian army's invasion in Bucha. Reluctantly, she agrees to help find his missing parents--a decision that will ultimately force her to risk the lives of her own loved ones.

Director: Eva Strelnikova
Producer: Alla Lipovetskaya, Marina Kvasova, Anatolii Dudinsky
Screenwriter: Eva Strelnikova, Anton Skrypets
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Ukrainian
Runtime: 1h 50m