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299 articles available in total starting from 19/05/2010. Last article published on 22/04/2025.

Zoya Laktionova • Director of Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface

Interview: Zoya Laktionova • Director of Ashes Settling in Layers on the Surface

"If you don’t see the war, it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Not seeing it is also a choice - and that choice is political"

We caught up with the Ukrainian director to discuss her new project, the winner of the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Visions du Réel  

22/04 | Visions du Réel 2025 | VdR-Industry

Lukáš Hanulák directing Canal+ political thriller miniseries Moloch Files

Lukáš Hanulák directing Canal+ political thriller miniseries Moloch Files

As the only foreign platform currently investing in original scripted content in the Czech Republic, Canal+ is clearly keeping up its regional momentum  

01/04 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia/Ukraine

Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko • Directors of Everything Needs to Live

Interview: Tetyana Dorodnitsyna, Andrii Lytvynenko • Directors of Everything Needs to Live

"It's difficult to make a film when you see your homes being destroyed and loved ones killed, but having a mission and seeing how Anna kept going helped us stay sane"

The Ukrainian filmmakers talk about the event that inspired them to make a documentary about Anna Kurkurina, the Ukrainian athlete and animal activist, and about filming in a war zone  

01/04 | One World Prague 2025

Review: My Dear Théo

Review: My Dear Théo

In this haunting wartime diary, Alisa Kovalenko balances motherhood and survival, crafting a raw self-portrait from the frontlines for her son  

01/04 | CPH:DOX 2025

Mariia Ponomarova • Producer

Interview: Mariia Ponomarova • Producer

“We have to denormalise workaholism and challenge unhealthy work structures”

The Ukrainian-born, Netherlands-based director and producer, whose recent documentary Nice Ladies keeps on travelling through the world, discusses her approach to filmmaking  

25/03 | Emerging Producers 2025

Gar O’Rourke • Director of Sanatorium

Interview: Gar O’Rourke • Director of Sanatorium

“I try to find humour and connection in unexpected places”

The Irish filmmaker’s first feature-length documentary follows the lives of staff and guests in a sanatorium in Odesa over the course of one summer  

21/03 | CPH:DOX 2025

Review: Everything Needs to Live

Review: Everything Needs to Live

Despite the constant presence of the war, this moving documentary by Tetiana Dorodnitsyna and Andrii Lytvynenko is, above all, a testament to the resilience of a remarkable woman  

18/03 | One World Prague 2025

Review: Satisfaction

Review: Satisfaction

Alex Burunova directs a visually rich psychological drama with a fuzzy narrative but an important central story about dangerous patriarchal relationship dynamics  

13/03 | SXSW 2025

Maksym Nakonechnyi • Director of The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It

Interview: Maksym Nakonechnyi • Director of The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It

"I want all of us to reflect on our own 'flat Earth theories' and prepare ourselves for the moment when objective reality crashes them one way or another"

BERLINALE 2025: The Ukrainian director offers insights to his upcoming film, which won the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award at the Berlinale Co-Production Market  

04/03 | Berlinale 2025 | EFM

EXCLUSIVE: Space Production, Effervescence Fiction and Hamak announce series Glace Noire, unveil poster

EXCLUSIVE: Space Production, Effervescence Fiction and Hamak announce series Glace Noire, unveil poster

The Ukrainian-French show will be a sports crime-drama that cuts through competitive figure skating’s polished outer sheen to expose a sport where glory meets survival  

25/02 | Production | Funding | Ukraine/France

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