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.

Project	Grantee
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
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
Preparing and Publishing a Book: Voices of War	Yevhen Zakharov
Collecting and publishing video interviews with victims of - and witnesses to - Russian atrocities which will later be curated into book form
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
Radiation of War	Yana Kononova
A photographic study of the aftermath of conflict focusing on destroyed civilian infrastructure, battle sites and the traces of recent Russian atrocities
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
Refugee's Diary	Oksana Shchur
This long-read essay is a journey into the mind of a new Ukrainian woman who has had to leave a life behind and start again in the European Union
Representations of Donbas (working title)	Dmytro Chepurnyi
A book project documenting the visual arts scene in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions from 1991 to 2023
Schrödinger's Cat: A Play	Lyuba Yakimchuk
A play about a Bucha woman returning to her home and encountering the Russian soldier who killed her husband.
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
Searching for Pokémon: Documentary Film	Mykhailo 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

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women