MILITANTROPOS
A film by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi
2025, 111 minutes
2025, 111 minutes
No. 494
Documentary
Documentary
Description
Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war—those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight—tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness. Amid devastation and atrocity, the human is absorbed into war—and war, in turn, becomes part of the human.
Festivals
Winner, The Union of the Ukrainian Film Critics' Jury Prize, Docudays UA IHRDFF 2025
Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2025Official Selection, CineMasters, Filmfest München 2025
Official Selection, Documentary Film Competition, Sarajevo Film Festival 2025
Official Selection, International Competition, DMZ Docs 2025
Official Selection, Best of Fests, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2025
Reviews
"An exquisitely crafted vérité journey comprised of painstakingly framed snapshots of an unfortunately contemporary Ukraine." —IndieWire
“This film’s anthropological interest in how people are shaped by an ongoing immersion in a state of war is simultaneously deeply personally felt and conveyed with a sense of analytical remove.” —Variety
