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
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
Survive and Win: The Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022	Roman Mykhalchuk
Documenting testimony of Russian trauma and aggression from evacuees, volunteers, soldiers, government reps and local elites doing all they can to win
Testimonies from the Fortunoff Archive	Maryna Poliakova
Working with the Fortunoff Video Archive to make testimonies by Russian and Ukrainian speakers more accessible through editing and transcription.
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 Heritage	Alina Gorlova
A film about memory and change that serves as a portrait of the invading forces, seeking to capture reasons for actions seemingly beyond understanding
The Past Unsimple	Sashko Protyah
A hybrid documentary project tracing elusive and eloquent memory narratives in the setting of the Ukrainian periphery
The War Spoke to Us Loudly Through Explosions and Quietly Through Things	Alisa Demina
Analyzing the impact of war on Ukrainian material culture and social spaces, creating a database of war memorials in the Kyiv region
The Wounded Culture: Oral History	Olha Honchar
Documenting Ukrainian museum professionals' experiences as they preserve the country's cultural heritage during the invasion
THEN & NOW	Roman Pashkovskiy
A personal project reflecting on the divide between life prior to February 24th 2022 and the experience of living in the shadow of the invasion today
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
Those Behind Me	Iryna Tsilyk
An intimate and poetic documentary essay about generational trauma reflecting Ukraine’s past, present, and future.

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