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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Shadows Grow Faster Than Me
#war #immigration #history #family
Work in Progress
My Shadows Grow Faster Than Me (Мої тіні ростуть швидше за мене)
A family of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers is forced to leave their homeland after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To protect their three children from shelling, they travel across Europe and eventually settle in Britain. The camera, once part of their professional lives, becomes a way of holding on to a family reality that is shifting faster than they can understand.
#war #immigration #history #family
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
Queens Of Joy
#LGBT / Queer #war #human_rights #gender
Сompleted
Queens Of Joy (Kоролеви радості)
Three drag queens redefine resilience and hope, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights and survival amid war-torn Ukraine.
#LGBT / Queer #war #human_rights #gender
Сompleted
Shot Down: A Man’s Journey Home
#war #journalism #current_affairs #investigation
Сompleted
Shot Down: A Man’s Journey Home (Розстріляний: історія чоловіка, який проривався додому)
In April 2022, when Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv region, the world saw the horrifying footage of the Zhytomyr Highway. Dozens of Ukrainian civilians, mostly Kyiv residents, tried to escape from the bombing of the capital and its suburbs using this road and to flee to the western part of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russian military set up positions along the highway and fired at civilian cars. Dozens of Ukrainians, adults and children, were killed on the Zhytomyr Highway those days.
#war #journalism #current_affairs #investigation
Сompleted
Silence Flood
#war #religion #observation #nature #anthropology
Сompleted
Silence Flood (Тиха Повінь)
Set by a beautiful river canyon in Western Ukraine, a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, sees their peaceful way of life gradually distressed by regular floods and eventually an unexpected war.
#war #religion #observation #nature #anthropology
Сompleted
The Bear
#war #theatre #teenager #education #coming of age #culture
Work in Progress
The Bear (Ведмідь)
A group of acting students is forced to relocate to Western Ukraine at the start of the war. They dream of becoming actors, but their graduation performance is based on a play by Chekhov. Some refuse to perform, risking their graduation. Why, out of thousands of plays, did they choose a Russian one?
#war #theatre #teenager #education #coming of age #culture
Work in Progress
The Blessed Ones
#creative #current_affairs #war #art
Сompleted
The Blessed Ones (Блаженні)
Suddenly thrown into a brutal war, a group of Ukrainian artists must face a once unimaginable question: What can artists do when the world is burning? 
#creative #current_affairs #war #art
Сompleted
The Ferryman
#adventures #war #teenager #sports #drama #current_affairs #coming of age
Work in Progress
The Ferryman (Поромник)
17-year-old Danylo works as a ferryman in the shadow of a destroyed bridge 50 km from Kharkiv to earn money and continue his studies at a sports academy. Still, his dreams of becoming a professional kayaker collide with the reality of wartime.
#adventures #war #teenager #sports #drama #current_affairs #coming of age
Work in Progress
The Forest Glade
#creative #war #health #drama
Work in Progress
The Forest Glade (Лісова поляна)
Surrounded by walls that have ears and a voice, soldiers confront the psychological impacts of war through unorthodox therapies and evidence-based medicine in a brief sanctuary before returning to the frontlines.
#creative #war #health #drama
Work in Progress
The Game of Women and War
#women #war #theatre #performance_art #observation
Work in Progress
The Game of Women and War
Four actresses with no personal connection to war are cast for the play characters based on the wartime stories of Ukrainian women. The documentary captures their journey of empathy, transformation, and the struggle to balance art with truth.
#women #war #theatre #performance_art #observation
Work in Progress
The Unconquered: Voices of Veterans and their Partners
#war #women #relationship #marriage #social_issues
Сompleted
The Unconquered: Voices of Veterans and their Partners (Нескорені: Голоси ветеранів та їхніх партнерок)
Over 20 Ukrainian veterans and their partners first tell their stories separately, then meet in one room for the first time — to hear each other.
#war #women #relationship #marriage #social_issues
Сompleted
Timestamp
#war #observation #education #childhood
Сompleted
Timestamp (Стрічка часу)
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with students and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat.
#war #observation #education #childhood
Сompleted
Traces
#war #women #violence #human_rights
Сompleted
Traces (Сліди)
Despite the deep traces of trauma caused by sexual violence and torture resulting from Russian aggression, Ukrainian women survivors are uniting to break stigma and silence, transforming their testimonies into a powerful form of resistance.
#war #women #violence #human_rights
Сompleted
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