Hatred

Hatred (Wołyń, 2016) is a Polish war drama by Wojtek Smarzowski, ready to watch online on iFILM. Summer 1939 in the Volhynia region: young Zosia loves a Ukrainian boy, but her father marries her off to a wealthy widower instead.

Then the love story dies. Her husband is drafted, war arrives, and the villages where Poles, Ukrainians and Jews lived as neighbors turn on each other. Left with her stepchildren as the killing spreads, Zosia must survive a slaughter that recognizes no innocents. Michalina Łabacz carries the film as a woman aged by horror rather than years.

Smarzowski refuses to pick a comfortable side. He films the violence head-on, with no swelling score to soften it, which is why the movie sparked furious debate in both Poland and Ukraine over a wound that never fully closed. This is brutal, demanding cinema for viewers who want history without the gloss. Stream Hatred (2016) online on iFILM.