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42 articles available in total starting from 19/05/2010. Last article published on 26/08/2026.

Helena Maksyom • Director of Don't Ask Me if I Killed

Interview: Helena Maksyom • Director of Don't Ask Me if I Killed

"I realised that I could be killed at any moment, and I wanted my friends to have some kind of memory of me"

The Ukrainian filmmaker shares her experience of war trauma and what she thinks it takes to remain at least a little sane in an extreme reality  

26/08 | Sarajevo 2026 | Documentary Competition

Review: Don’t Ask Me If I Killed

Review: Don’t Ask Me If I Killed

Helena Maksyom’s Ukrainian frontline documentary shows us the labours of war through her eyes and her filmic diary as a civilian-turned-soldier  

25/08 | Sarajevo 2026 | Documentary Competition

Isabelle Stever, Anna Melikova • Director and screenwriter of I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Interview: Isabelle Stever, Anna Melikova • Director and screenwriter of I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

“We wanted the war to exist on a linguistic and emotional level, rather than simply through images of destruction”

The director and screenwriter discuss their film about a Ukrainian couple simultaneously navigating one partner’s gender transition and the devastating consequences of the Russian invasion  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Review: I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Review: I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Isabelle Stever’s latest feature, written by Ukraine's Anna Melikova, is an ode to freedom and nonconformity in a world ruled by violence and injustice  

11/08 | Locarno 2026 | Competition

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Silent Flood

Interview: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • Director of Silent Flood

“Communities have their own planet, their own laws of physics and gravity, and that’s what I want to discover”

The Ukrainian director discusses his feature-length documentary about people who live in harmony with nature, at the mercy of the nearby river and in proximity to war  

27/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

Review: Silent Flood

Review: Silent Flood

Pamfir director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk documents a pacifist community dwelling in a river canyon in Western Ukraine  

25/11/2025 | IDFA 2025

Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

Interview: Yelizaveta Smit, Eugene Rachkovsky • Director and producer of In Vacuo

“The war has taught us to adapt”

The Ukrainian filmmaker and producer discuss her fiction debut, a meditation on memory and absence set in Odesa, which won the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award at KVIFF  

21/07/2025 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | KVIFF Industry Days

EXCLUSIVE: Yutaro Keino’s Mazurian Summer Story in the works, heading to Cannes’ Marché du film

EXCLUSIVE: Yutaro Keino’s Mazurian Summer Story in the works, heading to Cannes’ Marché du film

The coming-of-age drama follows a teenage boy navigating emotional and intergenerational turmoil against the backdrop of contemporary Eastern Europe  

28/04/2025 | Production | Funding | Poland/Germany/Ukraine

Review: When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea

Review: When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea

BERLINALE 2025: Eva Neymann explores the persistence and resilience of locals and warzone refugees in the Ukrainian harbour city of Odesa  

22/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Forum

Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions winner Unspoken casts Paul Wesley in lead role

Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions winner Unspoken casts Paul Wesley in lead role

The six-part limited series, inspired by real events and set during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, captures the personal toll of war and will start shooting next year  

29/11/2024 | Production | Funding | Poland/Ukraine/USA/Germany

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