Wars and armed conflicts

11 films
A digest on the site, a note on Twitter, pictures on Instagram. Images of the war appear and disappear, and it still goes on. This subject cannot be encapsulated in a single frame.

  • 250 km

    dir. Hasmik Movsisyan
    fab2022

    ‘The most difficult and the most important thing in life is to make a decision. The present depends on it and, what is more, it will always influence the future’, is what a father tells a teenage boy. When the first bombs fall, he will be faced with the choices determining the life of his family, friends, some completely unknown people and a turtle.

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  • Ambulance (Ambulans)

    dir. Janusz Morgenstern
    fab1961

    Janusz Morgenstern's short film touches on a rarely addressed and tabooed theme from World War II - the extermination of Jewish children.

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  • Chornobyl 22 (Chornobylʹ 22)

    dir. Oleksiy Radynski
    dok2023

    In 1986 there was an enormous nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. Another one could have happened in 2022 when Russian soldiers entered the site of the power plant. Their presence was recorded by an anonymous cameraman. The memories became revived.

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  • Inside Kabul

    dir. Caroline Gillet, Denis Walgenwitz
    dok2023

    A simple animated line and a powerful documentary story. Journalist Caroline Gillet receives unique recordings from two Afghan women she knows. In short messages, Marwa and Raha report the brutal takeover of the country by the armed Taliban. Very soon, one of the women flees her homeland.

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  • Mariupol. A Hundred Nights (Mariupolʹ. Sto nochey)

    dir. Sofiia Melnyk
    anim2023

    A dramatic and shocking picture of the Russian invasion in Ukraine presented from the perspective of a four-year-old girl. To create the animation, authentic photographs of destroyed buildings and drawings of war made by children were used. This terrifying film does not allow the viewer to remain indifferent.

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    Awards:Silver Dragon / Special Mention
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  • Shreds (Klaptyky)

    dir. Igor Gavva
    fab2022

    Russia’s war against Ukraine as seen from a less obvious perspective than the one presented by the media every day. Younger Kolya and older Kostya, two brothers who live in faraway Donbas, have a different view of what is going on. One backs the rebellion, the other puts security above all.

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  • Signs of War

    dir. Juri Rechinsky, Pierre Crom
    dok2022

    The war which is raging in Ukraine now began nine years ago. French reporter Pierre Crom documented that period and today, using words and images, he talks about his experiences from the front and Ukrainian streets as well as the forebodings, sometimes surreal, that harbingered a full-scale invasion back then.

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  • The Hostage Takers

    dir. Puk Damsgaard, Søren Klovborg
    dok2023

    They were called the Beatles because before they joined the ISIS, they had grown up in the UK. They were the ones who kept watch over Western hostages and inflicted particular cruelty. The interviews with jihadists were confronted with the memories of victims, negotiators and witnesses, which makes a true documentary thriller.

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  • The Natural History of Destruction

    dir. Sergei Loznitsa
    dok2022

    European cities as seen from the boards of aircraft during carpet-bombing made a stunningly beautiful picture which was horrifying in a primeval manner. These images of hell, like never before, were planned by the engineers of war with scientific precision. To create the choreography of destruction, they employed the instruments of mathematics and physics.

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  • War at Home (Wojna domowa)

    dir. Aleksander Zalewski
    dok2023

    Imad, who comes from Syria, has been living in Warsaw for many years. In order to show his children their second homeland, he organizes an assistance expedition to the country of his ancestors. In an ambulance, which is to be donated to the local health service, they set off to war-torn Syria.

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  • We Will Not Fade Away

    dir. Alisa Kovalenko
    dok2023

    Donbas, 2019. The prospect of a new Russian invasion hangs in the air, while the sound of gunfire resulting from the old one can still be heard in the distance.

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