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
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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
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89 Days
#war #observation #human_interest #history #everyday_life #anthropology
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89 Days (89 днів)
Since the first days of the war, the subway has become a bomb shelter for many Kharkiv residents.
#war #observation #human_interest #history #everyday_life #anthropology
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A Bit of a Stranger
#women #war #postcolonialism #observation #identity #family #emigration #current_affairs #archives
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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
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A Picture to Remember
#war #observation #identity #history #family #Donetsk #archives #anthropology
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A Picture to Remember (Фото на памʼять)
A Picture to Remember is an essay-style account of the war from the perspective of three generations of women.
#war #observation #identity #history #family #Donetsk #archives #anthropology
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A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet
#history #experimental #creative #cinema #art
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A Sentimental Journey to the Parajanov Planet (Сентиментальна подорож до планети Параджанова)
Documentary homage to Sergei Parajanov, a brilliant filmmaker and artist, on his 100 anniversary. Embark on a mesmerizing journey into the world of Parajanov, and witness the blend of unique archive material with surrealistic puppetry scenes, blurring the lines between imagination and reality.
#history #experimental #creative #cinema #art
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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
Apache Tribe
#war #observation #current_affairs
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Apache Tribe (Плем’я Апача)
Deployments for combat missions for Apache, a tank commander, is a daily routine task. But this time he needs to do a mission with a gunner who is deploying to the confrontation line for the first time.
#war #observation #current_affairs
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Are you here?
#war #social_issues #refugees #human_rights #family #current_affairs
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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
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Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface
#war #identity #human_interest #history #family #creative #archives
Work in Progress
Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface (Прах, що осідає шаром на поверхні)
Based on diaries and photographs of the director’s grandfather and mother, the film reconstructs the life of one family within the never-ending cycle of destruction and restoration in her hometown — Mariupol. Today, the director is left with nothing except her memories. And she is not the only one: while we are watching the film, somewhere there is a war.
#war #identity #human_interest #history #family #creative #archives
Work in Progress
Axe
#social_issues #observation #nature #ecology #creative
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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
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Bada­boom
#war #observation #current_affairs
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Bada­boom (Ба­да­бум)
During a storming mission, a commander has to make quick, unconventional and very risky decisions.
#war #observation #current_affairs
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Bonjour — Bonsoir
#war #road movie #refugees #everyday_life #observation #drama #anthropology
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Bonjour — Bonsoir
A film about time that has stopped, and life that goes on.
#war #road movie #refugees #everyday_life #observation #drama #anthropology
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Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
#war #nature #human_interest #family #anthropology
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Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil (Чоботи в ґрунті, руки в землі)
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil centres around the remarkable spiritual bond shared by the filmmaker Karolina Uskakovych and her charismatic grandmother, Zoya, a proud Ukrainian pensioner who cherishes her non-capitalist peasant lifestyle.
#war #nature #human_interest #family #anthropology
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Bouquinistes
#war #social_issues #community #culture #anthropology
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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
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Chornobyl 22
#war #observation #investigation #human_rights #history #ecology #current_affairs #archives #anthropology
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Chornobyl 22 (Чорнобиль 22)
An anonymous informant of the Ukrainian Armed Forces secretly films the movements of Russian troops in the occupied Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.
#war #observation #investigation #human_rights #history #ecology #current_affairs #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
Clouds Move with Great Speed
#war #human_rights #family #drama #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Clouds Move with Great Speed (Летять хмари з великою швидкістю)
The story is about a man who lost five family members as a result of Russian airstrikes on a residential building in the Kyiv region. Two years have passed, and the remains of Vadim's relatives have yet to be identified. So he doesn't have anyone to bury.

#war #human_rights #family #drama #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Cuba&Alaska
#women #war #fashion #drama #current_affairs #creative
Work in Progress
Cuba&Alaska
Leaving their civilian lives behind, two female paramedics Cuba and Alaska go to war and after that deali with that experience.
#women #war #fashion #drama #current_affairs #creative
Work in Progress
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
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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
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Everything Needs to Live
#war #sports #LGBT / Queer #human_rights #competition #animal
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Everything Needs to Live (Все має жити)
Everything Needs to Live portrays the unusual daily life of Anna Kurkurina, a charismatic athlete, ‘the strongest woman in the world’, an animal activist and an out lesbian.
#war #sports #LGBT / Queer #human_rights #competition #animal
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Film Processing Factory
#observation #experimental #current_affairs #community #cinema #art #archives #activism #culture
In Development
Film Processing Factory (Цех Обробки Плівки)
Portrait of the Film Processing Center and of the people who were left in it. A casual time capsule that embodies the history of the Ukrainian film school. Is there hope for deconservation and preservation of memory?
#observation #experimental #current_affairs #community #cinema #art #archives #activism #culture
In Development
Fragments of Ice
#sports #identity #history #family #current_affairs #creative #coming of age #archives #anthropology
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Fragments of Ice (Фрагменти льоду)
A gentle hypnotic journey through the VHS archives of the (post-)Soviet figure skater who toured the West in the 80s and 90s. Years later, his daughter follows these videotaped memories to reveal a story about maturing: of herself, her family, and her society.
#sports #identity #history #family #current_affairs #creative #coming of age #archives #anthropology
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday
#war #observation #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #cinema #anthropology #culture
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday (П'ятниця, субота, неділя)
The three-day journey in the film is full of the fragile humour of the festival team and the eager eyes of the audience.
#war #observation #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #cinema #anthropology #culture
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
Girl Away From Home
#war #sports #emigration #childhood
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Girl Away From Home (Дівчинка далеко від дому)
Directed by Academy nominee Simon Lereng Wilmont and Alisa Kovalenko, Girl Away From Homefollows 13-year-old Nastia, an elite gymnast from Kyiv.
#war #sports #emigration #childhood
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Guests from Kharkiv
#refugees #war #observation #nature #human_interest #history #everyday_life #creative #anthropology
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Guests from Kharkiv (Гості з Харкова)
Nelia and Oleksandr offer refuge to fleeing Kharkiv families, providing shelter and land in their village. But when the newcomers struggle to adapt to rural life, their shared harvest falters. Can they unite to save the garden and their bonds amidst adversity?
#refugees #war #observation #nature #human_interest #history #everyday_life #creative #anthropology
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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
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