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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
Residence Permit
#culture #community #road movie #identity #refugees #postcolonialism
Work in Progress
Residence Permit (Дозвіл на проживання)
A Ukrainian filmmaker born in Siberia travels across Caucasus, Moldova and Eastern Ukraine to confront the ruins left by her country of birth, meeting people marked by occupation, erasure, and fractured identity – reflections of her own story.
#culture #community #road movie #identity #refugees #postcolonialism
Work in Progress
Serge Lifar: Artist’s Case
#investigation #identity #history #dance #art #archives #culture
Work in Progress
Serge Lifar: Artist’s Case (Справа артиста. Сергій Лифар)
Serge Lifar: Artist’s Case uncovers the truth behind the legendary ballet dancer’s legacy, exploring whether his collaboration with Nazi forces was a choice or a consequence of circumstance.
#investigation #identity #history #dance #art #archives #culture
Work in Progress
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
Silence of the Estuaries
#adventures #nature #observation #science #ecology
Сompleted
Silence of the Estuaries (Тиша лиманів)
Silence of the Estuaries is a meditative documentary set in Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park in Ukraine during the full-scale war. Reflecting on life and death, it reveals the fragility of nature and the quiet strength of those who protect it.
#adventures #nature #observation #science #ecology
Сompleted
Slavik’s Journey to Forever
#history #archives #current_affairs #memories
Work in Progress
Slavik’s Journey to Forever (Славік на шляху у вічність)
Obsessed with the idea that only he could preserve the "true memory of Mariupol," Slavik gave up his business in the late 1990s and began tirelessly collecting artifacts and stories from the city — unaware that he was, in fact, gathering evidence of a world that would be destroyed by the Russian invasion.
#history #archives #current_affairs #memories
Work in Progress
The Amateur
#social_issues #docufiction #history #identity #archives #music
Work in Progress
The Amateur (Аматор)
In 1980s Soviet Ukraine, a merchant marine becomes an accidental rebel after discovering underground cinema. His camera captures a defiant nation on the brink of change and a music scene that helped bring down the USSR.
#social_issues #docufiction #history #identity #archives #music
Work in Progress
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 Ferry Flows
#death #social_issues #music #experimental
Сompleted
The Ferry Flows (Паром Пливе)
A grey-haired music teacher from a small Ukrainian island turns into a military conductor at soldier funerals while trying to keep afloat his children ensemble.
#death #social_issues #music #experimental
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 Girl In The Photo
#photography #investigation #history #archives
Work in Progress
The Girl In The Photo (Дівчинка з фото)
The photo taken during the collectivization times by amateur photographer Mark Zalizniak became one of the most famous symbols of the Holodomor, but the fate of the people depicted in it remained unknown. The film explores the history of this family, the photo itself, and its symbolic meaning.
#photography #investigation #history #archives
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
Ukraine is not so far away
#war #immigration #history #family
Work in Progress
Ukraine is not so far away (Україна — не так далеко)
In this film, we follow family of filmmakers from 2013 when the Maidan and the Revolution of Dignity occurred, to the moment they return home from abroad.
#war #immigration #history #family
Work in Progress
Up in the Air
#war #sports #family #drama #coming of age
Сompleted
Up in the Air (В повітрі)
A 9-year-old Ukrainian circus acrobat, Sasha, is developing his skills and performance up in the air. In 2022 Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine challenges the path to his dreams. The war took his home but not his inner strength or family.
#war #sports #family #drama #coming of age
Сompleted
When the Water Screams
#investigation #human_rights #journalism #war
Сompleted
When the Water Screams (Коли вода кричить)
An investigative documentary by Olesia Bida about how the occupation authorities of the eastern bank of Kherson Oblast and the Russian military neglected and obstructed the evacuation of civilians after the Kakhovka Dam’s explosion. 
#investigation #human_rights #journalism #war
Сompleted
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