Films

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
89 Days
#war #observation #human_interest #history #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
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
Сompleted
A Picture to Remember
#war #observation #identity #history #family #Donetsk #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
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
Сompleted
Bonjour — Bonsoir
#war #road movie #refugees #everyday_life #observation #drama #anthropology
Сompleted
Bonjour — Bonsoir
A film about time that has stopped, and life that goes on.
#war #road movie #refugees #everyday_life #observation #drama #anthropology
Сompleted
Boots on the Ground, Hands in the Soil
#war #nature #human_interest #family #anthropology
Сompleted
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
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
Chornobyl 22
#war #observation #investigation #human_rights #history #ecology #current_affairs #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
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
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
Fragments of Ice
#sports #identity #history #family #current_affairs #creative #coming of age #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
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
Сompleted
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
#war #observation #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #cinema #anthropology #culture
Сompleted
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
Guests from Kharkiv
#refugees #war #observation #nature #human_interest #history #everyday_life #creative #anthropology
Сompleted
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
Сompleted
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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Intercepted
#war #observation #human_rights #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #anthropology
Сompleted
Intercepted (Мирні люди)

A personal journey to reveal the banality of evil behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A creative juxtaposition between the realities of Ukrainians resisting the violence of war, and the Russians perpetrating it.

#war #observation #human_rights #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #anthropology
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
On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin
#war #urban #observation #anthropology
Сompleted
On April 22, 2023, from 13:05 to 13:11 nothing happened in Irpin (22 квітня 2023 року з 13:05 до 13:11 в Ірпені нічого не відбувалось)
This short film is a grotesque reflection of the threat of death that could come at any moment from Russian missiles and other weapons.
#war #urban #observation #anthropology
Сompleted
Our home
#war #human_rights #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
Our home (Наш дім)
In February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the apartment my friend and I were renting in Lviv became a transit point.
#war #human_rights #everyday_life #anthropology
Сompleted
Plasticine Dreams
#war #refugees #human_rights #human_interest #history #anthropology
Сompleted
Plasticine Dreams (Пластилінові мрії)

In the polyphony of voices, a search for home unfolds. 

#war #refugees #human_rights #human_interest #history #anthropology
Сompleted
Round Glasses
#war #road movie #observation #identity #everyday_life #cinema #anthropology
In Development
Round Glasses (Круглі окуляри)
A Ukrainian man travels abroad for the first time since the full-scale war to attend a film festival in Germany.
#war #road movie #observation #identity #everyday_life #cinema #anthropology
In Development
Songs Of Slow Burning Earth
#war #human_interest #anthropology
Сompleted
Songs Of Slow Burning Earth (Переміщені)
The observational film consists of stories about the phenomena of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
#war #human_interest #anthropology
Сompleted
Storks always come home
#war #nature #love #creative #anthropology
Work in Progress
Storks always come home (Лелеки завжди повертаються додому)
What will happen to heaven once the war begins?
#war #nature #love #creative #anthropology
Work in Progress
The Days I Would Like to Forget
#war #history #current_affairs #anthropology
Work in Progress
The Days I Would Like to Forget (Дні, які хочеться забути)
Film triptych of three parts – MILITANTROPOS, PALINGENESION, and COSMOMORPHOSIS, observes how the war in Ukraine changes humans and space and affects the world. Different personal experiences combine a holistic collective one, showing war’s influence and presence on all levels of existence. 
#war #history #current_affairs #anthropology
Work in Progress
The Mist
#war #observation #human_rights #human_interest #drama #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
The Mist (Імла)

Ukraine, February 24, 2022. A regular winter morning transforms into an extraordinary event, and everyday life becomes part of a great war.

Explosions, sirens, queues, shelters. Evacuation, roads, checkpoints, volunteering. To stay or to leave? Which direction to run? There's a river beyond the forest and a bridge beyond it, but you can't see it. In case of heavy fog, try to follow the sounds.

#war #observation #human_rights #human_interest #drama #archives #anthropology
Сompleted
Ukrainian Independence
#war #urban #observation #human_interest #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #anthropology
Сompleted
Ukrainian Independence (День незалежності)
The film’s events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood.
#war #urban #observation #human_interest #history #everyday_life #current_affairs #anthropology
Сompleted
Walk
#observation #identity #family #coming of age #anthropology
Сompleted
Walk (Гуляю)
This is an autobiographical story by Daria Zhuravel.
#observation #identity #family #coming of age #anthropology
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We Will Not Fade Away
#adventures #war #teenager #sports #road movie #identity #coming of age #anthropology
Сompleted
We Will Not Fade Away (Ми не згаснемо)
Donbas, 2019. The prospect of a new Russian invasion hangs in the air, while the sound of the gunfire resulting from the old one can still be heard in the distance.
#adventures #war #teenager #sports #road movie #identity #coming of age #anthropology
Сompleted