Films

A Bit of a Stranger
#women #war #postcolonialism #observation #identity #family #emigration #current_affairs #archives
Сompleted
A Bit of a Stranger (Трішки чужа)
Four generations of Ukrainian women from one family explore how their ethnic identity has been destroyed by the full-scale Russian invasion.
#women #war #postcolonialism #observation #identity #family #emigration #current_affairs #archives
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
Patronymic
#postcolonialism #identity #history #family #archives
Work in Progress
Patronymic (По батькові)
Following her train journey home to Kyiv, filmmaker Mariia Volodymyrivna Ponomarova searches for the missing part of her full name—the patronymic, a Ukrainian middle name derived from one’s father's namethat disappeared from her international documents for better or for worse.
#postcolonialism #identity #history #family #archives
Work in Progress
Under the Sign of Anchor
#urban #postcolonialism #history #education #archives #sea
Сompleted
Under the Sign of Anchor (Під знаком якоря)
The elite Kyiv Naval Political College operates in a city without access to the sea. The first Soviet aircraft carrier, the Kyiv, became the flagship of the Northern Fleet. The school’s students, future political officers of the Soviet navy, go on a long navigation voyage; meanwhile, at their alma mater the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy opens.
#urban #postcolonialism #history #education #archives #sea
Сompleted