Grantees

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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Peace for Nina	Zhanna Maksymenko-Dovhych
"Peace for Nina" follows a Ukrainian mother's quest for justice and healing after her son's execution by Russian mercenaries
Fixing the War	Vadym Ilkov
Documentary spotlighting Ukrainian fixers' raw experiences and contributions to international media in a war-torn setting
Listening to the World	Yelizaveta Smith
The story of Iva, an art curator, rights activist and deaf person who received cochlear implants as a refugee in Berlin and learned to hear again
The Days I Would Like To Forget	Alina Gorlova
A trilogy of films exploring the war from expanding perspectives – daily life, the trauma of death and how the war links to the history of the world and humanity’s place in it
Museum and War	Sasha Dolhyi
A documentary trilogy looking at the indomitability and brittleness of museum workers as they contend with the challenges of war
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
Short Documentaries about the Frontline Territories in Ukraine	Oleksii Kirin
Creating and translating short documentaries about frontline territories. The team aims to be on the ground as soon as possible after any liberation
Puzzle	Svitlana Shapoval
A Ukrainian refugee filmmaker and her colleagues Investigate the web of Russian money and influence that has come to permeate the Western World
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
The Sowing / Посівна	Illia Yehorov
A documentary film about grain, and about Ukrainian land as the centre of gravity for the Ukrainian soul and the primordial basis of life
The Flow of War	Oleksii Samsonov
A short documentary film that frames the ongoing conflict through the prism of water, from the flooding of Dymir to the shortages at the front lines
Volunteers’ Kitchen	Volodymyr Kuznetsov
Two filmed interview projects, one profiling volunteers manufacturing dry rations and the other a civil society activist turned mayor