Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

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Musicians at War	Kateryna Honcharuk
An audio documentary exploring the emotional impact of music on soldiers and musicians during the war in Ukraine
My Captivity	Yevhen Shybalov
A documentary book by a journalist and ex-POW, detailing his 7-month captivity experience in Russia.
Noting Warfare: A Historian on the Front Line	Maksym Gon
Documenting the reality of the frontline from the perspective of a Ukrainian historian and soldier originally trained for Soviet army service
Over the Horizon of the End of History: The Diary of a Recruit of the Ukrainian War (За горізонтом кінця історії. Щоденник рекрута української війни)	Denys Kobzin
A Ukrainian army recruit and a sociologist is recording observations and interpretations of Ukrainian resistance in an irregular diary.
Patches: Humor, Design, Convictions	Anton Hauk
Researching the social and cultural significance of unofficial military insignia in Ukraine, analyzing humor, convictions, and aesthetics
Picturesque Ukraine	Yaroslav Pilunskyi
Producing a series of short documentaries recording Ukrainian experiences of war that frames the horror and hardware with human and natural beauty
Rain's Men: Untold Story of Military Medics	Bohdan Kutiepov
A documentary following an infantry brigade’s medical unit shared as a YouTube series with plans to expand the production to a feature length film
REAL	Oleh Sentsov
"REAL" is a film by Ukrainian director and lieutenant Oleh Sentsov, offering an immersive combatant's view of war from the frontlines
Scorched Earth	Oleksandr Kuchynskyi
Combining amateur video footage sourced from the Internet into a long form documentary film that will preserve this unique record of the conflict
Short Stories Collection “Hotel Tranquility,” Based on the Topic of the Russian War in Ukraine and Real Events	Roman Malynovskyi
Publishing a collection of 15 short stories that relate narratives drawn from real experiences related to the author by friends and eyewitnesses
Survive and Win: The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022	Roman Mykhalchuk
Documenting testimony of Russian trauma and aggression from evacuees, volunteers, soldiers, government reps and local elites doing all they can to win
The Autopsy of War: Finding, Identifying and Grieving for the Missing Soldiers	Hanna Dosenko
Exploring the role of forensic experts in Dnipro, documenting war crimes and identifying unknown soldiers from the Russian-Ukrainian war

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