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2000 Meters to Andriivka
#war #observation #journalism #current_affairs
Сompleted
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2000 метрів до Андріївки)
A new film by the Oscar-winning director of 20 Days in Mariupol and Pulitzer Prize laureate Mstyslav Chernov.
#war #observation #journalism #current_affairs
Сompleted
All F*cked Up
#war #urban #social_issues #nature #health #activism
Work in Progress
All F*cked Up (Все Йде Шкереберть)
In wartime Kyiv, a Ukrainian director Ganna documents the construction of a foreign architect’s ‘healing garden’. The story grows as she recognizes her own need for healing. Therapy sessions and daily life in Kyiv reveal her buried trauma and the emotional cost of surviving war without visible scars.
#war #urban #social_issues #nature #health #activism
Work in Progress
An Island Between Wars
#current_affairs #war #community #identity #social_issues #history
Work in Progress
An Island Between Wars (Острів між війнами)
The century-old history of Ukraine through the fates of the Chernobyl zone people. Old twins Nastya and Frosya, Volodymyr — father of two soldiers, and downshifter Ihor — each of them understands love for their native land in their own way.
#current_affairs #war #community #identity #social_issues #history
Work in Progress
Battle
#current_affairs #human_rights #poetry #creative #experimental
Сompleted
Battle (Бій)

Experimental. Videopoetry. Without dialogs.

‘’Be patient- patience polishes you,

it strengthens your spirit - so be patient.

 No one will save you from distress, 

no one will knock you off your path.

Follow your path - it has chosen you forever,

along this path since childhood the Lord has been leading you"

#current_affairs #human_rights #poetry #creative #experimental
Сompleted
Black Earth
#family #social_issues #current_affairs #identity #war
Work in Progress
Black Earth (Чернозем)
Three Ukrainians face the war from radically different paths: Vitaly, 19yo, becomes adrone pilot in a volunteer unit in the East, as Fyodor, born into a Russian family, fleeswestward, torn by exile and identity, and Anya struggles to raise her young son alone after her husband’s execution.
#family #social_issues #current_affairs #identity #war
Work in Progress
Black Sea, White Noise
#music #coming of age
Work in Progress
Black Sea, White Noise (Чорне море, білий шум)
Odesa’s underground musicians refuse to be silenced by war. This film is their voice. Black Sea, White Noise is a coming-of-age story set in Odesa’s alternative music scene.
#music #coming of age
Work in Progress
Bucha. Yablunska
#war #journalism #investigation #human_rights
Сompleted
Bucha. Yablunska (Буча. Яблунська)
Radio Liberty has reconstructed three days in March 2022 on Yablunska Street in Bucha, minute by minute.
#war #journalism #investigation #human_rights
Сompleted
Bug in the Anthill
#road movie #experimental #creative #coming of age
Work in Progress
Bug in the Anthill (Жук у Мурашнику)
An intercity bus turns into a time machine, where different branches of the same person’s fate transform within one individual and are preserved on a handycam.
#road movie #experimental #creative #coming of age
Work in Progress
Cosmomorphosis
#observation #anthropology #current_affairs #drama #human_interest #human_rights #war
Work in Progress
Cosmomorphosis (Космоморфозіс)
COSMOMORPHOSIS exploring a global process of transformations in space and time, caused by the war. Hostilities and atrocities affect places and people involved in them. Retranslated through verbal, visual and emotional media, they influence wider minds and reshape perceptions of past and future. 
#observation #anthropology #current_affairs #drama #human_interest #human_rights #war
Work in Progress
Etched in Memory
#war #muslim #identity #Crimea #community
Сompleted
Etched in Memory (Закарбовано в пам'яті)
As Russian missiles rain down on Kyiv, Zarema and Eskender Bariiev risk everything to fight for their occupied homeland, Crimea, while protecting their children and fellow Crimean Tatars living in exile—a rare look into the war through the eyes of Ukraine’s Indigenous Muslim community.
#war #muslim #identity #Crimea #community
Сompleted
EuroKryvbas
#postcolonialism #history #archives #architecture #culture
Work in Progress
EuroKryvbas (ЄвроКривбас)
Fueled by rare earth minerals and foreign visionaries, built with Belgian trams, German manufacturing, Polish labor, and French and British capital — EuroKryvbas reveals how Ukraine’s industrial core was once deeply European, before the Soviet Union rewrote its past and silenced its legacy. Today, as mines and factories lie near the frontline, history echoes once more — defying imperial myths with memory and resistance.
#postcolonialism #history #archives #architecture #culture
Work in Progress
Every Death Diminishes Me
#war #trauma #current_affairs #creative
Work in Progress
Every Death Diminishes Me (Кожна смерть зменшує мене)
A Ukrainian filmmaker becomes a frontline paramedic. Working alongside a Dutch volunteer, he sees each death not only change him but widen the rift between the world he comes from and the curated world he’s trying to reach.
#war #trauma #current_affairs #creative
Work in Progress
Fermata
#music #culture #current_affairs #art #human_interest
Work in Progress
Fermata (Фермата)
A distinguished pianist known for performing contemporary classical music loses the ability to play at the beginning of the war. His determination to return to the piano turns his performances into a form of healing for wounded souls and an honest voice of culture in a time of profound challenges.
#music #culture #current_affairs #art #human_interest
Work in Progress
Flowers of Mars
#war #history #death
Work in Progress
Flowers of Mars (Квіти Марса)
In Lviv, Ukraine, where over 1,000 soldiers from the ongoing war are buried, a group of devoted men from different walks of life organises funeral ceremonies, while the cemetery's space dwindles with each passing day.
#war #history #death
Work in Progress
From Radvanka
#human_rights #social_issues #women #experimental #creative
Work in Progress
From Radvanka (З Радванки)
With a camera in hand, Zhanna captures life in Radvanka, a Roma neighborhood in Uzhhorod, as war keeps her sons away and leaves her home - and her sense of belonging - suspended in uncertainty.
#human_rights #social_issues #women #experimental #creative
Work in Progress
Hearts of Coal
#women #human_interest #gender
Work in Progress
Hearts of Coal (Серця з вугілля)
Today, more women are working in Ukraine's coal mines than ever before. Replacing the men who went to the front, they descend into the deep mines of Donbas. Is this a temporary shift in roles or a step toward gender equality? The film tells the stories of women underground, seeking light in the tunnel of war.
#women #human_interest #gender
Work in Progress
In Anticipation
#war #social_issues #separation #observation #drama #current_affairs
Сompleted
In Anticipation (В очікуванні)
Prisoner of war exchange. Hundreds of relatives are in the hospital yard — there are more of them than liberated Ukrainian soldiers. Who will meet their loved ones today, and who will wait further? The first minutes of the meetings culminate in a climax, where people and spectators merge in common anticipation.
#war #social_issues #separation #observation #drama #current_affairs
Сompleted
Invisible Front: Kherson
#war #investigation #current_affairs #community
Work in Progress
Invisible Front: Kherson (Невидимий фронт: Херсон)
Invisible Front: Kherson is a documentary film about life under Russian occupation, peaceful resistance, trauma, memory, and dignity.
#war #investigation #current_affairs #community
Work in Progress
Kyiv. A Notebook
#war #culture #road movie #observation #everyday_life
Work in Progress
Kyiv. A Notebook
As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine continues the filmmaker travels from New York to his native city, Kyiv, where he reunites with loved ones and friends and confronts the everyday reality of a city at war.
#war #culture #road movie #observation #everyday_life
Work in Progress
Listening to the world
#health #drama #family #human_rights #refugees #disability
Work in Progress
Listening to the world (Прислухаючись до світу )
Iva can't hear the world because of her disability. She and her son Mykyta face the war in Ukraine and are forced to flee to Germany. In Berlin, Iva gets a Cochlear implantation and the chance to hear again. In a world full of noises, challenges and war, Iva seeks for the way to hear and to be heard.
#health #drama #family #human_rights #refugees #disability
Work in Progress
Mama's Voice
#refugees #family #women #war #parents
Сompleted
Mama's Voice (Голос мами)
As the Russo-Ukrainian war erupts, the deep bond between the Ukrainian and the Polish mother helps a Ukrainian refugee family cope with separation, loss, and the search for a new sense of belonging.
#refugees #family #women #war #parents
Сompleted
Militantropos
#war #human_rights #human_interest #drama #current_affairs #anthropology
Сompleted
Militantropos (Мілітантропос)
MILITANTROPOS — a persona adopted by humans when entering a state of war - accepting war as their sole means of existence.
#war #human_rights #human_interest #drama #current_affairs #anthropology
Сompleted
Missing in Action
#drama #social_issues #women #war
Work in Progress
Missing in Action (Особа зникла безвісти)
While searching for her missing brother, 50-year-old Natalia is forced to find a new purpose in life to overcome her trauma.
#drama #social_issues #women #war
Work in Progress
My Dear Théo
#women #war #observation #memories #human_interest #family
Сompleted
My Dear Théo (З любов’ю з фронту)
Serving both as a mother’s testament of love and a war documentary, the film interweaves Kovalenko's personal journey with the larger narrative of those fighting to ensure future generations may live in peace.
#women #war #observation #memories #human_interest #family
Сompleted
My Diana
#relationship #LGBT / Queer #identity #creative #archives
Work in Progress
My Diana (Моя Діана)
When Ukrainian feminist and activist Diana Berg enters my life, my boundaries expand. Through our polyamorous relationship, I rediscover Ukraine after years in Germany. If polyamory exists, could "polyhomery" too?
#relationship #LGBT / Queer #identity #creative #archives
Work in Progress
My Huta
#observation #nature #identity #history #family #experimental #animated
Work in Progress
My Huta (Моя Гута)
A poetic journey into the world of the past to confront its ghosts and rediscover the roots of one's 'self'.
#observation #nature #identity #history #family #experimental #animated
Work in Progress
Night Mayor
#music #immigration #nightlife #community
Work in Progress
Night Mayor (Нічний мер)
Chad, the Night Mayor of Lviv, is a Greek dreamer, a migrant who has brought people together through music. After facing accusations of fraud, he lost: friends, money, and his reputation. Amidst the ruins of his dream, one thing remained — his festival. Will he have the strength to win back the city’s love?
#music #immigration #nightlife #community
Work in Progress
Palingenesion
#war #death #observation #anthropology #human_rights #current_affairs #drama #human_interest
Work in Progress
Palingenesion (Паліенгінезіон)
Palingenesion explores the perception of death in the Russian-Ukrainian war versus the fight for life. Through personal stories, it reflects on shared grief, collective trauma, and resilience. Amid loss, Ukrainians navigate pain together, witnessing the rebirth of a deep thirst for life.
#war #death #observation #anthropology #human_rights #current_affairs #drama #human_interest
Work in Progress
Patronymic
#docufiction #postcolonialism #identity #history #family #archives
Сompleted
Patronymic (По батькові)
Following the long train journey home, Kyiv-born filmmaker Mariia Volodymyrivna Ponomarova searches for her patronymic, a Ukrainian middle name derived from the name of her father, which disappeared from her international documents. 
#docufiction #postcolonialism #identity #history #family #archives
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