-Date: 20 May-

This hard-hitting drama is based on real life stories of political prisoners. Diagnosis: Dissent, the first feature film by Denys Tarasov, is also the first film in the world that addresses the theme of forced psychiatric treatment as punishment for those who disagree with the political order in the Soviet Union. Andrii, a young, creative, freedom-loving person uncovers a horrible truth that had been kept secret for years.

Most of those accused of ‘anti-Soviet propaganda’ were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of slow progressive schizophrenia. Andrii finds himself in a hell of punitive psychiatry where he faces a difficult choice. He can either cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals.