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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Museum at War: Preservation of History and its Artefacts by Human Hands During the War	Sasha Dolhyi
A documentary film focusing on the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Art Museum and workers who stayed behind to save collections from destruction
Wild Fields of Ukraine	Sasha Dovzhyk
Creative nonfiction essays explore the past and present of the partially occupied Southern Ukrainian Steppe where a battle for Europe is being fought
Zatyshok against the War: Stories of Things, Pets and Plants that Ukrainians Loved but Were Forced to Leave	Petro Yatsenko
A Book exploring ‘zatyshok’ – the Ukrainian sense of coziness and the role it has played in the war.
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mikhail Volkov
Following photographer Alexander Chekmenev’s search for a girl he photographed two decades ago to give her a promised print and to hear her story
It's Not a Full Picture	Maryna Stepanska
A documentary film featuring the stories of nine Ukrainian filmmakers as they react to the life-changing advent of war in different ways
The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of Ukrainians	Anna Osypchuk
A project to analyze and understand the dehumanization of the Russian military, people and elites as Ukrainians respond to the full-scale invasion
Documentary Feature about the Russo-Ukrainian War	Maksym Nakonechnyi
A documentary exploring destructive and constructive transformations – of spaces, bodies, animals and identities – as a consequence of war
Food and Nutrition During the War in Ukraine	Olena Braichenko
Using in-depth interviews, this research project will look at issues surrounding food and culinary practices and how they have changed in wartime
Solidarity Screenings	Serhiy Klymko
With screenings across Europe, this curated program brings Ukrainian documentary film to a wide audience and offer raw, immediate insight into the war
Testimony of Times	Yelizaveta Smith
Two filmmakers are documenting the war at a series of key moments for Ukraine’s cities, from refugees arriving in Lviv to the mass graves of Chernihiv
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war