90-year-old architect Florian Yuriev always lived according to his own artistic vision. While in a Siberian concentration camp as a child, he created a universal language of colour and music that has informed his work ever since. Now during a fight with terminal cancer, he is facing the destruction of his magnum opus: a UFO-shaped avant-garde concert hall in Kyiv, set to be repurposed as a shopping mall. To stop this, Florian interferes with the dealings of a notorious property developer (who happens to be one of Donald Trump’s Ukrainian cronies). Florian uses his vision to inspire an unlikely victory.

Dir. Oleksiy Radynski - 70min - 2022 - Ukraine

"the extraordinary mind of Florian Yuriev, a visionary Ukrainian architect and artist, visualises an astonishingly holistic view of the world. His abstract paintings brim with geometric colourful shapes and patterns that also carry a sonic component, as each shade has their own tonality....Oleksiy Radynski’s passionate documentary follows the architect’s tireless efforts to save one of his modernist masterpieces from destruction." - Guardian

"a battle for the very soul of art." - Sheffield Doc Fest

"Florian Yuriev is considered to be the Ukrainian Leonardo da Vinci — a genius painter who developed a whole theory of colour and musicality." - Millenium Docs Against Gravity, **Winner** Best Ukrainian Film Director

"in Radynski's essayistic paean in honour of his unique contribution to Modernism, a life spent in defiance of orthodoxy and conformism, one gets for the first time ever generous glimpses of these little gems begging to be revealed – as another side of this polymath’s genius." - IFF Rotterdam

"Florian Yuryev’s philosophy of a galaxy’s mortality, of a “beautiful zero” we all are going to return to, contrasts with the ridiculous and dangerous stubbornness of a businessman inspired by Donald Trump." - DOK Leipzig