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Russian Rocket Zhanna Kadyrova

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?

Everything Needs to Live Tetiana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko

Everything Needs to Live

UKRAINE: As war rages, a world champion weightlifter becomes an unexpected hero, tending to wounded pets and people with tireless resolve.

The Eukrainian Viktor Nordenskiöld

The Eukrainian

UKRAINE: The high-wire act of a Ukrainian leader navigating war, diplomacy, and EU bureaucracy in a continent losing its sense of unity.

Dahomey Mati Diop

Dahomey

DECOLONALISATION: Blending nonfiction and magic, Mati Diop’s Dahomey blends gives voice to looted statues while exploring the complexity of restitution.

Trains Maciej Drygas

Trains

TRANSPORT: IDFA best film award winner Polish director Maciej Drygas’s entrancing Trains is a mesmerising journey through much of the 20th century by rail, accompanied by a subtly intense soundtrack.

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