Ukraine at War: films of resistance and identity

Ukraine at War: films of resistance and identity

To accompany our screening of Kateryna Gornostai’s new documentary Timestamp, we present this special playlist of films from Ukraine at war.

Over more than four years of full-scale invasion and more than a decade of aggression, Ukrainian cinema has responded to Russia’s war on the country with films reasserting identity and resistance. As we screen Kateryna Gornostai’s new documentary on school life during wartime, Timestamp (2025), available until 7 May, we present this short playlist of films from the Klassiki catalogue that deal with the conflict – from experimental shorts to trenchant features.

Explore our complete collection of Ukrainian cinema here.

Audio 5.1 badge
Subscribe Share
Ukraine at War: films of resistance and identity
  • Timestamp
    2:05:25
    Timestamp

    Timestamp

    Available from 9 April – 7 May
    Directed by Kateryna Gornostai • 2025 • Ukraine

    Kateryna Gornostai’s follow-up to the award-winning teen drama Stop-Zemlia is a documentary portrait of school life during wartime. Shot between 2023 and 2024 in locations across Ukraine, Timestamp captures the abnorm...

  • Chornobyl 22
    22:10
    Chornobyl 22

    Chornobyl 22

    Directed by Oleksiy Radynski • 2023 • Ukraine

    In the early days of the Russian invasion in 2022, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was used as a staging post on the road to Kyiv. Oleksiy Radynski’s Chornobyl 22 documents their brief, terrifying occupation of the site. Interviews with plant staff who w...

  • Grey Bees
    1:42:02
    Grey Bees

    Grey Bees

    Directed by Dmytro Moiseiev • 2024 • Ukraine

    January, 2022, on the eve of the Russian invasion. Retired miners Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Volodymyr Yamnenko) are the sole remaining residents of a Donbas village in the “grey zone” between Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces. Cut off from ...

  • Qirim
    09:42
    Qirim

    Qirim

    Directed by Kateryna Khramtsova • 2023 • Ukraine

    Kateryna Khramtsova’s documentary short Qirim – the native Tatar name for Crimea – is a portrait of Antonina Romanova: a non-binary performance artist turned mortar technician in the Ukrainian army. Incorporating animation and split-screen techniq...

  • Volcano
    1:46:21
    Volcano

    Volcano

    Directed by Roman Bondarchuk • 2018 • Ukraine

    Lukas, a translator for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is transporting some foreign colleagues across the southern Ukrainian steppe, when he becomes stranded in a ramshackle small town. Can he trust the seemingly dera...

×