Films

Listening to the World
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #disability
Work in Progress
Listening to the World (Прислухаючись до світу)
In order to be heard by the world, Iva has to learn how to hear again.

#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #disability
Work in Progress
100 000 nights
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #everyday_life #drama #current_affairs #anthropology
Work in Progress
100 000 nights (100 000 ночей)
Film documents the new reality of our time through capturing the everyday life routine of Ukrainian refugees residing in the transit shelter on the outskirts of Budapest.
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #everyday_life #drama #current_affairs #anthropology
Work in Progress
20 Days in Mariupol
#war #social_issues #human_rights #history #current_affairs #archives
Сompleted
20 Days in Mariupol (20 днів у Маріуполі)
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who have remained in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.
#war #social_issues #human_rights #history #current_affairs #archives
Сompleted
Antarctica: War Diaries
#sports #adventures #social_issues #war #science #road movie #human_interest
Work in Progress
Antarctica: War Diaries (Антарктида: Щоденники війни)
After the beginning of Russian full-scale invasion, 14 researchers embarks on a year-long expedition to an Antarctic research station. Their journey presents them with challenges of extreme weather conditions, the psychological toll of isolation and hard feeling caused by the war.
#sports #adventures #social_issues #war #science #road movie #human_interest
Work in Progress
Are you here?
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #family #current_affairs
Сompleted
Are you here? (Ти тут?)
Ukrainian girl Oryna was forced to leave her homeland due to the war and tries to start new life abroad. 
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #family #current_affairs
Сompleted
Axe
#social_issues #observation #nature #ecology #creative
Сompleted
Axe (Бартка)
Set against the imminent climate crisis and destructive floods, it explores the delicate balance between deforestation and the conservation of vital ecosystems, sparking a global dialogue on environmental protection.
#social_issues #observation #nature #ecology #creative
Сompleted
Bouquinistes
#war #social_issues #community #culture #anthropology
Сompleted
Bouquinistes (Книголови)
For many years, bouqunistes in Kyiv save books from rain and cold. Each of them has their own story  someone lost a teacher’s job in the harsh 1990s and someone came to work here after retiring. When the Russian invasion begins, they are left with questions about Russian heritage, imperial myths, and their past.
#war #social_issues #community #culture #anthropology
Сompleted
Divia
#war #social_issues #human_rights #history #ecology #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Divia (Дівія)
Ravaged body of Ukrainian nature is the main character behind this visually and sound driven observational documentary. Silently laying bare the catastrophic impacts of war, nature resists and gradually heals itself.
#war #social_issues #human_rights #history #ecology #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Elevation
#adventures #sports #social_issues #competition #anthropology
Сompleted
Elevation (Висота)
Vasyl is a former ski jumper who now works as a coach at a ski jumping school for children in the Carpathians. He is a tough, hardened man at the end of his career.
#adventures #sports #social_issues #competition #anthropology
Сompleted
From Radvanka
#social_issues #human_rights #human_interest #anthropology
In Development
From Radvanka (З Радванки)

Zhanna films her everyday life in Radvanka, a Roma settlement, which is one of the oldest districts of the ukrainian city Uzhgorod. She is a Roma and mother who is waiting for her son from the war. The conditions in which she has to live are becoming increasingly difficult, and the construction of her own house has taken years.

#social_issues #human_rights #human_interest #anthropology
In Development
Hello, I'm on the hill
#war #urban #social_issues #observation #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
Hello, I'm on the hill (Алло, я на горі)

In the destroyed city of Izyum, Kharkiv region, Mount Kremyanets becomes an “island of communication” where people find mobile connection with their families after months of Russian occupation.

#war #urban #social_issues #observation #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
How I celebrated the day of the russian language in Kherson
#social_issues #war #experimental #ecology
Сompleted
How I celebrated the day of the russian language in Kherson (Як я святкувала день російської мови в Херсоні)
A portrait of Kherson during the flooding after russian invaders blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric station through a personal story of being there.
#social_issues #war #experimental #ecology
Сompleted
King Lear: how we looked for love during the war
#war #theatre #social_issues #refugees #human_interest #drama #art #culture
Сompleted
King Lear: how we looked for love during the war (Король лір: як ми шукали любов під час війни)
Due to the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, fleeing the war, found refuge in a small town in western Ukraine. A local director decides to involve non-professional actors – displaced people - in bringing his dream into life  to stage the King Lear play.

#war #theatre #social_issues #refugees #human_interest #drama #art #culture
Сompleted
Nice Ladies
#war #sports #social_issues #observation #identity #human_interest #gender #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
Nice Ladies (Nice Ladies)
A team of ageing Ukrainian cheerleaders hold on to their friendship as each navigates the trauma of war in her own way.
#war #sports #social_issues #observation #identity #human_interest #gender #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
Step Into the Comfort Zone
#war #social_issues #refugees #LGBT / Queer #identity #human_rights
In Development
Step Into the Comfort Zone (Вхід до Зони Комфорту )
The film is about LGBT Ukrainians who were born and raised during the USSR and remained outlaws for many years. Only now, despite the war, they have decided to pursue their dreams and embrace their true identities.
#war #social_issues #refugees #LGBT / Queer #identity #human_rights
In Development
Under the Wing of a Night
#war #social_issues #refugees #family #childhood
Сompleted
Under the Wing of a Night (Під крилом ночі)
11-year-old Olesia's new life in Belgium as she waits for her father's nightly call from back home in Ukraine.
#war #social_issues #refugees #family #childhood
Сompleted
What You will do when the War starts?
#war #social_issues #performance_art #experimental #creative #archives #culture
Сompleted
What You will do when the War starts? (Що робитимеш коли почнеться війна?)
A bitterly funny documentary of club-kid life in wartime, - New York Tіmes.
#war #social_issues #performance_art #experimental #creative #archives #culture
Сompleted
Women Occupied
#women #war #trauma #social_issues #human_rights #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Women Occupied (Окуповані)
A journey through the lives of three women from Ukraine, Bosnia and Germany revealing how they manage to overcome the trauma of rape at war while also searching for justice as they regain their strength and dignity.
#women #war #trauma #social_issues #human_rights #current_affairs
Work in Progress