Stay Online

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Stay Online

2023

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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14 Reviews

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A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father, the laptop's previous owner, who went missing during the Russian army's invasion in Bucha. Reluctantly, she agrees to help find his missing parents--a decision that will ultimately force her to risk the lives of her own loved ones.

Nick Allen

RogerEbert.com

Aug 1, 2023

A mournful, hopeful, and engaging tribute to the resilience of the Ukrainian people.

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Mikal CG

Film Threat

Apr 25, 2025

7/10

Stay Online is definitely not a feel-good film. It’s drenched in tragedy, but there are also needed victories accomplished.

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Bee Delores

Horrorverse

Mar 21, 2025

The film arrives as one of the most compelling and necessary films of 2025.

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Nadine Whitney

AWFJ.org

Sep 6, 2023

Stay Online is an astonishing film and one you cannot look away from even for a second. A reminder to the world that we should also be not looking away from Ukraine.

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Matt Donato

Slashfilm

Aug 13, 2023

8/10

"Stay Online" is a screenlife tour de force that recontextualizes the contemporary horrors of war across digital minefields.

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Spencer Perry

ComicBook.com

Aug 10, 2023

3/5

Though the film itself has a unique place in the larger landscape of modern politics, it does stretch itself very thin by frequently inventing new reasons for the story to keep going rather than resolve.

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Roman L

@Roman.K Feb 22, 2026

A terrible film with a terrible plot. As a Ukrainian, I have to admit that for us, it looks like the bottom of cinema. The directors are either trying to show the phantom existence of "good Russians" in the heroine's interactions, or that she is so narrow-minded that she sends her loved ones to their deaths because of her cockroaches, but it's all terrible.

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A young woman (Liza Zaitseva) volunteering in Kyiv is given one of the thousands of laptops donated by ordinary Ukrainians to support the war effort. The woman receives a mysterious video call from a young boy searching for his father, the laptop's previous owner, who went missing during the Russian army's invasion in Bucha. Reluctantly, she agrees to help find his missing parents--a decision that will ultimately force her to risk the lives of her own loved ones.

Director: Eva Strelnikova
Producer: Anton Skrypets, Alla Lipovetskaya, Marina Kvasova, Anatolii Dudinsky
Screenwriter: Anton Skrypets, Eva Strelnikova
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Organization of Ukrainian Producers, Mamas Film Production, AMO Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: Ukrainian
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 7, 2025
Runtime: 1h 50m

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