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Something Familiar

Sevara Pan / March 18, 2026

FAMILY: A search for a birth family becomes a nuanced meditation on trauma, shared fates, loss, and self-authorship.

CPH:DOX, DOK.fest München, EFP, family, Manifest, Manifest Film, My Accomplice, One World Romania, Rachel Taparjan, Something Familiar, Stranger Films Sales

Traces Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk

UKRAINE: Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at this year’s Berlinale, Traces, details the powerful story of women seeking to survive and thrive after being raped and tortured by Russian forces during the war in Ukraine.

2Brave Procutions, Alisa Kovalenko, Berlinale, conflict, CPH:DOX, FIFDH, Marysia Nikitiuk, Message Film, Movies That Matter, One World CZ, Polish Docs, Russia, Stranger Films Sales, Traces, Ukraine

Growing up under the approaching storm clouds of war

Nick Holdsworth / May 17, 2023

UKRAINE: The lives of ordinary teenagers in Ukraine’s Donbas region as they navigate adolescence, dreams, and the devastating impact of conflict on their futures.

Alisa Kovalenko, Astra Film Festival, DocsBarcelona, Docudays UA, Donbas, East Roads Films, Europe, FIFDH, goEast, HAKA Films, IDFA, Kharkiv, Krakow Film Festival, Kyiv, Nepal, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, photography, Sarajevo Film Festival, Stranger Films Sales, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Trueman Production, We Will Not Fade Away

Coming of age in times of war

Sevara Pan / May 10, 2023

UKRAINE: An achingly tender film about growing up and a moving contemplation on life itself.

Alisa Kovalenko, Astra Film Festival, Berlinale, conflict, DocsBarcelona, Donbas, East Roads Films, FIFDH, goEast, goEast), HAKA Films, IDFA, Kharkiv, Krakow Film Festival, MakeDox, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Stranger Films Sales, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Trueman Production, Ukraine, violence, We Will Not Fade Away, Zaporizhzhia