“My daughter Jackie was 9 years old when she was killed in Uvalde,” said Cazares. The film shows Talankin, a schoolteacher near the Ural Mountains, as he documents Russian propaganda efforts around the war in Ukraine. But luckily, even a nobody is more powerful than you think.”Speaking through an interpreter, Talankin said, “For four years, we look at the sky for shooting stars to make a very important wish. But there are countries where instead of shooting stars, they have shooting bombs and shooting drones. In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 16, 2026 05:39 UTC