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
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
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
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
Silent Flood	Karina Kostyna
Film on a pacifist community with unique religious beliefs
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
Staying Within the War, a Topology of Experience	Iryna Kostyshyna
A series of essays engaging with the conceptual underpinnings of the war within a postcolonial intellectual framework.
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
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
The Deoccupied Territories: Is the Worst Behind?	Serhii Korovainyi
A photographic project capturing human experiences in liberated cities of Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, focusing on challenges and resilience.

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