Best-friends “Cuba” & “Alaska”, wisecracking medics on Ukraine’s frontline, live the same battlefield story as all soldiers: slowly losing connections with friends, family and their previous lives the longer they stand up for Ukraine. With war so deeply rooted in them, can the two ever go back to the life they used to know?
Best Documentary Award at Rome Film Fest 2025 (Italy)
World Premiere (International Competition) at Sheffield DocFest 2025 (UK)
Winner of the Directors’ Week Jury Prize and the International Audience Award at the Brussels International Film Festival 2025 (Belgium)
Jury Award at Central Scotland Documentary Festival 2025 (UK)
Munich International Film Festival 2025 (Germany)
Sarajevo Film Festival 2025 – Documentary Competition Programme (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Folkestone Documentary Festival 2025 (UK)
Ukrainian Film Festival Berlin 2025 (Germany)
DOKUBAZAAR Independent Documentary Film festival 2025 (Slovenia)
Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2025 (Hungary)
MOLDOX International Documentary Film Festival 2025 (Moldova)
Calgary European Film Festival 2025 (Canada)
PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival 2025 (Estonia)
TRT Documentary Awards 2025 (Turkey)
Watch Docs Human Rights in Film International Film festival 2025 (Poland)
Göteborg Film Festival 2026 (Sweden)
FIPADOC 2026 (France)
Santa Barbara International film Festival 2026 (USA)
Festival Travelling Rennes 2026 (France)
Salt Spring Film festival 2026 (Canada)
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2026 (Greece)
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival 2026 (Norway)
Sofia International Film Festival 2026 (Bulgaria)
One World International Human Rights Festival 2026 (Czech Republic)
Nominated for the Award for Journalism at Salem Film Fest 2026 (USA)
Global Health Film Days 2026 (Denmark)
Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival 2026 (Canada)
Memoria Verda Justicia 2026 (Guatemala)
Seattle International Film Festival 2026 (USA)
European Film Festival of Atlanta 2026 (USA)
Film Festival on Diversity 2026 (Cyprus)
Ukrainian Film Festival Australia 2026 (Australia)
Promin’ Festival 2026 (The Netherlands)
Writer & Director
Yegor Troyanovsky
Producers
Olha Beskhmeltnytsina
Christian Popp
Hanne Phlypo
Director of cinematography
Serhiy Stetsenko
Editing
Joëlle Alexis
Original Music
Frederik Van de Moortel
Sound Recording
Andrii Niozelskyi, Xenia Vynogradova
Sound Design
Ludovic Van Pachterbeke & Laurent Martin
Sound Mixing
Lucien Richardson
International Sales
JAVA Films
Belgian theatrical distribution
Dalton
2Brave Productions
Tag Films
ARTE France (Generation Ukraine)
VRT
RTBF
Shelterprod
Flanders Film Fund
Film Boost
Ukrainian Film Academy/Netflix Postproduction grant
Eurimages
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