Donbas Days

A short portrait of a young man, who choses Ukraine as the destination for his year abroad so he can teach juggling to children who have been affected by war. Surrounded by trenches, he confesses that he feels more comfo

Donbas Within Reach

Dariia Kovalchuk travelled there from Prague with a friend. She remembers Donbas as a place where she spent carefree holidays and fell asleep beneath the stars. Now, however, she finds empty streets and houses scarred by

Tales from Donbas

The author of the film lost her home for the first time back in 2014 and has been calling herself a tumbleweed ever since. Now she returns to her childhood memories and, over the course of thirty minutes, introduces the

Vacation Donbas

A short documentary on the development of sanatorium and resort tourism in Donbas.

Donbas Odyssey

The documentary in the format of a film chronicle reproduces the evacuation route from the bombed-out town of Pivnichne, on the border line of the "gray zone", through cities of Toretsk, Myrnograd, and Pokrovsk to the ci

The Cacophony of the Donbas

A contemplative film whose idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. The film's plot develops along two planes. The first is life through th

Odesans in the Donbas

The main characters of the film are residents of Odesa who took part in hostilities in the anti-terrorist operation zone. Dmytro Olehovych, Yevhen Tytarenko, Roman Koldomasov, Yevhen Lata, Andriy Skorokhod, Viktor Pogodi

Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas

An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and

Donbás, tierra de separatistas

The Son of Donbas

Mykhalych, a farmer from Luhansk, miraculously escapes captivity by the Batman battalion (LPR). Unable to continue farming near Luhansk, he sets up a farm in the Chornobyl exclusion zone. Mykhalych plants his first crop.

The Last Prometheus of Donbas

These are captured moments from the life of a Ukrainian industrial giant from the East, which no longer exists due to the Russian offensive. A story of heroic energy workers at the last operating power plant in eastern U

The Dawn of Donbas

The film consists of women's voices—the voices of miners' wives. Their confessions lead us through the streets of the small town of Chervonopartizansk, located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Donbas Diary. How I Was at War

Hidden Threat: Environment. War. Donbas

Every war carries a hidden threat, because hostilities destroy the environment, polluting it for many years. A full-scale war in Ukraine will be a tragedy on a global scale. The environment has no boundaries. Poisonous w

The Sea Gate of Donbas

An issue of the film magazine 'Almanac of Film Travels' № 87, dedicated to the city of Mariupol (then Zhdanov).

Donbass

Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, sh

Donbass

In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to s

Donbass. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Taking a look back at events that unfolded before the start of the crisis in 2014. Historians and journalists share their views on the conflict, players and motives, while ordinary citizens from the Donetsk and Lugansk r

Eurodonbas

Throughout time, Eastern Ukraine (such as Donbas) has been referred to as a 'Russian world', but this is indeed not the case. The history of Donbas was re-written during the Soviet era. Although the Soviet Union edited o

Foreign Fighters of Donbass

International soldiers of the Donbass militia volunteered to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazism. They’re from Mexico, Columbia, the USA, Serbia, and all over the globe. Locals treat them as heroes, while their homelands consider