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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War without Sound: Documenting Deaf People during the Full-Scale Invasion	Pavlo Babin-Tkach
Documenting the experiences of Ukraine’s deaf community during the war, as well as the work of volunteers and sign-language interpreters.
A Home for Rita	Yulia Appen
A feature-length documentary film incorporating stop-motion animation that follows a Roma family forced to flee the Russian occupation in spring 2022.
Mission XII	Oleksandr Kryshtalovych
Archiving and editing extensive raw footage collected by a local fixer during 11 missions to the Ukrainian frontline.
My Kharkiv: Fortress of Solitude	Katya Soldak
A film documenting how residents of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, have endured Russia’s war in the years from 2022 to 2025.
Silenced Voices from 11 Years of Occupation	Ilami Yasna
Analyzing the stories of Ukrainian women who remained under Russian occupation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions for over a decade, challenging simplistic narratives about loyalty, identity, and belonging in occupied regions.
Volunteer’s Kitchen	Volodymyr Kuznetsov
An ongoing project documenting the Ukrainian volunteer movement as a living and changing social organism, with a particular focus on volunteer kitchens.
The Body After: Landscape	Tetiana Kytsenko
A fictional documentary performance exploring how people cope with the severe bodily trauma caused by warfare and damaging cosmetic interventions driven by societal beauty standards.
Ukrainian Naïve Mosaics	Yevgen Nikiforov
Documenting and preserving so-called “naїve” mosaics created in the 20th century by “non-artists,” self-taught individuals whose works defy the artistic canon.
Hell Was Full	Vic Bakin
A sincere and heartfelt collective portrait of the defenders of Ukraine on rotation and the looming sense of hell awaiting them on the frontlines.
More Liudei Magazine. Second edition	Veronika Poliakova
Creating and publishing a second issue of the print magazine More Liudei, documenting the wartime transformation of Odesa.
Tomorrow May Never Come	Andriy Lyubka
A non-fiction book about things, places, and people that may disappear physically tomorrow but will remain in the memory long after the war.
Pieta	Alena Grom
A multimedia documentary project analyzing and articulating the maternal grief stemming from the loss of sons killed in action.