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

Beshoot

Based on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would

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: Echoes of War

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

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

Donbass. Advanced. The Cossacks

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

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

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

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

Hilfstransport - Eine Fahrt in den Donbass

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

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: 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

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.

Sniper: The White Raven

Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he

The Art of Rebirth

Popasna is located in Luhansk in the Donbas region. In 2019, the battle threat is still in the air and many in the population have fled. Still, every morning the children go to one of the few elementary schools that is s

Bad Roads

Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority ov

Call Sign "Banderas"

In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Saienko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.