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Our Colors Never Fade

Nick Holdsworth / June 16, 2026

UKRAINE: The untold story of Ukraine’s LGBTQIA+ warriors, and the challenges they face from Russian aggressors and homegrown queer-bashing attitudes alike.

Germany, Infilmpact, Jim McSherry, LGBT, Our Colors Never Fade, Ukraine

Silent Flood

berenice31w / June 10, 2026

UKRAINE Shown at the Krakow Film Festival, Silent Flood explores how even the most secluded corners of Ukraine cannot remain untouched in the face of war.

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Docudays UA, DOK.fest München, Filmotor, Silent Flood, TABOR LTD., Ukraine

MARIINKA

Nick Holdsworth / March 12, 2026

UKRAINE A rare glimpse across the lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine, where brother has been set against brother, and families brutalised by conflict.

CPH:DOX, DOK.fest München, European Film Promotion, Films Boutique, Flanders Image, MARIINKA, Movies That Matter, Pieter-Jan De Pue, Pieter-Jan Pue, Savage Film, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Ukraine

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

CPH:DOX announces 2026 opening film

Modern Times Review / January 28, 2026

CPH:DOX has selected Pieter-Jan De Pue’s feature documentary MARIINKA as the opening film for its 23rd edition, running March 11–22,

CPH:DOX, Donbas, Ukraine

Active Vocabulary

Dieter Wieczorek / January 19, 2026

PROPAGANDA: A Russian teacher flees to Berlin after questioning the war. Her story exposes ritualised school propaganda, then throws an uncomfortable mirror at Western «neutrality» and the new glamour of military service.

Active Vocabulary, Democracy, DOK Leipzig, Facebook and other, fascism, Germany, indoctrination, moscow, Nazi, Oficina de Objectos Perdidos, patriotism, propaganda, revisionism, Trieste Film Festival, Ukraine, Yulia Lokshina

A Little Gray Wolf Will Come

Nick Holdsworth / December 7, 2025

RUSSIA: Identity politics form the foundation of former high-flying Russian public television correspondent Zhanna Agalakova’s debut documentary.

A Little Gray Wolf Will Come, Antipode Films, Antipode Sales International, ArtDocFest, CPH:DOX, Giorgio Savona Productions, KGB, Kremlin, LEWA productions, moscow, Revolver Amsterdam, Russia, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Ukraine, Zhanna Agalakova

Love+War

Francesca Borri / December 2, 2025

CONFLICT: A first-person, morally unsettled reflection on what it means to document conflict when the storyteller is also part of the machine.

conflict, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Gaza, IDF, Irpin Bridge, Israel, Jimmy Chin, Kyiv, Little Monster Films, Love+War, Lynsey Addario, Marines, National Geographic Documentary Films, Ukraine, UN

Songs of Slow Burning Earth

Bianca-Olivia Nita / November 25, 2025

UKRAINE: A meditation on the human endurance of war.

Filmotor, Final Cut for Real, MajorDocs, Moon Man, Olha Zhurba, Songs of Slow Burning Earth, Ukraine, war, We Have a Plan

«We are ten years old, but we are still young»

Steve Rickinson / November 20, 2025

INTERVIEW: At ten years old, MOLDOX meets Moldova’s EU horizon and the war’s shadow with «Chaos. Reinventing Reality,» testing whether documentary can fortify a fragile public sphere.

ai, artificial intelligence, Creative Europe, EU, interview, Maxim Cîrlan, media theory, moldox, MOLDOX Lab, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Vilém Flusser, war

Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime

Francesca Borri / November 8, 2025

GAZA: On Francesca Albanese’ fifth report to the UN Human Rights Council.

Afghanistan, Amnesty International, apartheid, Auschwitz, diplomacy, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, genocide, human rights, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Liliana Segre, Maurizio Massari, Rwanda, Syria, Ukraine, United States, West Bank., yemen, Yoav Gallant

Verzió DocPro returns with workshops, industry talks and project showcases

Modern Times Review / October 28, 2025

Verzió DocPro, the professional and educational strand of the Verzió Documentary Film Festival, will run from 12–16 November with five

madoke, social, Ukraine, Verzió DocPro, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival