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
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
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
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
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
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
The Chronicles of Hell	Ielezaveta Tatarinova
Recording a testimony about the atrocities of the Russian invasion – an attempt to film a reality that seems impossible to imagine
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 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

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