After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home

After the Rain: Putin's Stolen Children Come Home (2024) is a documentary film directed by Sarah McCarthy.

Deep in a forest by the Baltic Sea, a group of Ukrainian families come together to start the healing process with the help of golden retrievers and palamino horses at an animal therapy retreat. In the safety of the forest, the children’s memories of being illegally deported to Russia and their families’ struggles to rescue them are unraveled with the help of skilled and sensitive counsellors. The joy and humour the children discover during their time in the forest make it easy to forget that their stories are the reason the International Criminal Court recently issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Nearly 20,000 abducted children remain in Russian institutions.

Cast

Veronika Vlasova

Self

Darya Kasyanova

Self

Nadezhda Rossinskaya

Self

Nina Vlasova

Self

Vera Vlasova

Self

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Maria Lvova-Belova

Self (archive footage)