MEDUZA, directed by Roc Morin, is a documentary following Pavlo Aldoshyn, a Ukranian actor whose sniper training for a role turned into actual military service once Russia started the war with Ukraine.

This isn't a first-person perspective on the daily itineraries of violence. Rather, Aldoshyn comes across as someone trying to cling onto his sense of humanity amidst a beastly environment wherein the only goal is making it to the next day.

Humanity for the actor comes in creative bursts: musings on spirituality, expression, art, reincarnation and love.

But it's in the breaks from Aldoshyn's interviews that Morin's collaboration with him is revealed. These asides traverse the world, from a Japanese widower's search for any remnant of his deceased wife to an Indian craftsman of complex animatronics depicting gods and demons.

Morin describes his career as one driven by curious pursuits and MEDUZA is no different. What results is a mosaic of connection, the human threads that bind us all as conflicts threaten to shred them apart.

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