Exclusive: When Russia launched its brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, among the first defenseless victims were animals in a zoo in Kharkiv, very close to the Russian border. Big cats, bears, wolves, orangutans, kangaroos, birds and many other species – all dependent on humans for survival – endured unimaginable terror as Russian shells exploded around them and the skies filled with tracer fire.
Animals possibly in the hundreds were reportedly killed, as well as three zoo workers who stayed behind to feed their charges. The assault triggered a desperate attempt to evacuate surviving animals, a dramatic story told in the documentary Checkpoint Zoo. Appian Way Productions – the company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio — is teaming up with Osmosis Global and Abramorama for a late summer theatrical release in North America for the film directed by Joshua Zeman.
We have your first look at the film in the exclusive trailer above.
Abramorama
“In...
Animals possibly in the hundreds were reportedly killed, as well as three zoo workers who stayed behind to feed their charges. The assault triggered a desperate attempt to evacuate surviving animals, a dramatic story told in the documentary Checkpoint Zoo. Appian Way Productions – the company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio — is teaming up with Osmosis Global and Abramorama for a late summer theatrical release in North America for the film directed by Joshua Zeman.
We have your first look at the film in the exclusive trailer above.
Abramorama
“In...
- 7/10/2025
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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