The curator tears his hair and sighs. Just as his museum in Amsterdam is exhibiting archaeological works from Crimea, the peninsula is annexed by Russia, presenting him and his colleagues with an extraordinary dilemma: should the works be returned to Ukraine or to Crimea – and thus Russia? The irreconcilable parties are unable to reach an agreement, and before long the stranded works become the subject of a spectacular, media-intensive trial. ‘The Treasures of Crimea’ is a carefully directed microcosm of a geopolitical crisis in which everyone is a loser, but manages empathetically to let us see all sides of the fraught and complicated crisis.