Turn in the Wound

It is a film about performance, poetry, music and the experience of people at war, focusing on life in Kyiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It examines how they cope with the endless pain and violence that remind them of their history, and how they pursue their dreams of liberation from tyranny and war.

The film features Patti Smith's voice, reading poems by Antonin Artaud, René Daumal and Arthur Rimbaud, along with the testimonies of fighters and civilians in Ukraine's war zones and the words of its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

[3][5][6] Siddhant Adlakha writing in Variety said, "That Ferrara doesn’t shy away from capturing pitfalls suggests a larger and more overarching view of conflict — political and military; ethical and aesthetic — which Turn in the Wound attempts to fold into its purview."

Adlakha continued, "It doesn’t always succeed, given the breadth of the topics at hand, but it does occasionally distill them into moments that prove either gut-churning or powerfully introspective.