Love+War
CONFLICT: A first-person, morally unsettled reflection on what it means to document conflict when the storyteller is also part of the machine.
Kyiv
Flowers of Ukraine
UKRAINE: On the outskirts of Kyiv, a woman in her 70s demonstrates her love of freedom.
Special Operation
UKRAINE: Unfiltered surveillance of wartime routine builds toward an unseen horror.
Cultural resistance
UKRAINE: In Kyiv, cultural life is flourishing despite the war. We explore the city through artists, intellectuals, researchers, curators, cultural workers and poets who have stayed behind. Some say it feels like the ‘new Berlin’. Here, artists are neither commentators nor observers: they create bonds, build networks, tell small stories and provide a means of cohesion.
The taste of Kyiv
UKRAINE: How can you think when you are surrounded by explosions? In Kyiv, the normal and the abnormal exist side by side. Here, UNESCO has reported at least 670 destroyed cultural sites, including 145 religious and 238 of historical/artistic significance. On this investigative journey, we meet European intellectuals on the front line. How can we bear witness to and share their reality?
The endurance of the ordinary
UKRAINE: Olha Zhurba’s meditative take on the war avoids frontline images to show how the conflict affects ordinary people.
67th edition of DOK Leipzig set to feature 33 World Premieres
The 67th edition of #DOK Leipzig# will take place from 28 October to 3 November 2024. The event will feature
The war remains
UKRAINE: Collateral damage far from the frontlines of Ukraine’s long struggle in the east with separatists and now Russian armed forces is seen in Lesia Diak’s moving focus on a family torn apart by war.
A million roses and coal
UKRAINE: The impact of war on three generations of women, blending personal stories, family archives, and historical parallels.
An intense look at the centre of Ukraine during war
UKRAINE: Part reportage documentary and part poetic road movie, Voyage Along the War shares what everyday life looks like in a war-torn country.
The devil in the details
CONFLICT: Uncover the truth behind Conflict, an engaging but flawed analysis of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
Docudays UA announces full 2024 DOCU/PRO industry programme
The 21st #Docudays UA# International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, set to unfold in #Kyiv from 31 May to 6