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. Borderland

A film about a young soldier of the Ukrainian army, Andrei Sokolov, who is sent to the combat zone as a driver. Fleeing from the shelling, he finds himself in the basement of a dwelling house, where he meets different pe

Donbass: Echoes of War

Ukrainian nationalists bring back to Donbass horrors reminiscent of World War II

Donbass. Recognized

Since March 2022, a resident of Donetsk has been filming everything he saw himself.: the shelling, the great grief of his family, mutual help, love and friendship. A documentary about how ordinary people became participa

The Donbass children / 2019

This documentary presents first-person accounts from civilians in Donbas who endured senseless strikes on non-military targets. With no commentary or censorship, the film gives voice to those caught in a war imposed on t

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

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

Donbass. Advanced. The Cossacks

About the volunteer Cossack units and about the people who are now fighting on the front line.

Donbass, Huit ans après

After her first documentary, Donbass, filmed in the east of Ukraine in 2015, journalist Anne-Laure Bonnel returns to the region in 2022.

It Happened in the Donbass

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended

Donbass: I'm Alive!

“It’s the Azov battalion. They forced people out of their houses and into basements. Then tanks started shooting from here, from there,” a Mariupol resident shared her story with the film crew. Over 400,000 people in Mar

Hilfstransport - Eine Fahrt in den Donbass

Donbass: I'm Alive!

«What are they doing? Making a human shield! They hid behind old men! Idiots! Damned Ukraine! It makes me so angry!» Mariupol residents who had to hide in the cellar during Ukrainian shelling share their stories. Over 40

Donbass. The Tormented Heart of Russia

Donbass is in the Firing Line. Bright People

July 12, 2016, Kominternovo settlement. The western outskirts. The battle between the 2nd msb of the 9th OMSP of the DPR Armed Forces and the Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the other side

Carpathians–Donbass. The Price of the Elections

In Kyiv, people have been demonstrating for weeks against election fraud and arbitrariness—and in support of the opposition movement. But the country is divided. The TV channel Inter sends two convoys of cars bearing the

Donbass. Peaceful Life. Home On The Edge Of War

The film follows an elderly man who chose not to leave his village in the Zaporizhzhia region, finding himself caught in war both in 2014 and again in 2022. He tends his family's graves, grows potatoes in his large garde

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 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.