My documentary project, which I’ve been making since the first days of the full scale Russian invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, is a story about civilians. I’m interested in the notion of war and its varied impacts on society, including genocide, the trauma it generates, and related processes of change in society and culture. It’s a dramatic story of unimaginable suffering, but also a story about rising from ruins and rebuilding a country.
This project, in some ways, is a personal one for me. Both my grandparents and great grandparents were forced to resettle from Ukraine to Poland in the 1940s. I was born in Ustrzyki Dolne, just 10 km from the Polish-Ukrainian border. Ukraine and its people have always been in my life.
