Ukrainian Independence (2023)
The film’s events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood. The film combines places and people that best capture the country’s wartime spirit. The locations are: the relatively safe cities of Kyiv and Lviv; the cities under daily missile fire of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv; a trench at the frontlines near Donetsk; and the beaches of Odesa. The film presents a day in the life of a beach police patrol, a woman anti-tank missile operator, a water delivery driver, a mortar unit soldier, a rapid assault unit soldier, a 14-year-old pub janitor, an artist and a former member of parliament. Together, these people and places create an engaging mosaic of a day in the life of Ukraine.
Director:
Volodymyr Tykhyy
Writer:
Volodymyr Tykhyy
| Production | Maciej Mika | Co-Producer |
| Production | Michał Krajewski | Co-Producer |
| Production | Kamil Przełęcki | Line Producer |
| Crew | Julia Maisa | Translator |
| Production | Bogdana Semen | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kamil Przełęcki | Producer |
| Production | Andrzej Hajdaniak | Co-Producer |
| Editing | Michał Krajewski | Digital Intermediate |
| Production | Kamil Rutkowski | Co-Producer |
| Camera | Yuriy Pupyrin | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Ihor Ivanko | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Serhiy Stetsenko | Camera Operator |
| Production | Andrii Kotliar | Producer |
| Sound | Mykyta Moiseiev | Music |
| Camera | Illya Yehorov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Yaroslav Kendzior | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Roman Liubyi | Camera Operator |
| Production | Volodymyr Tykhyy | Producer |
| Directing | Volodymyr Tykhyy | Director |
| Editing | Ivan Bannikov | Editor |
| Editing | Volodymyr Tykhyy | Editor |
| Camera | Andrii Kotliar | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Yaroslav Pilunskyi | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Volodymyr Tykhyy | Screenplay |
| Production | Ihor Savychenko | Producer |
| Camera | Dmytro Zahlynskyi | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Hanna Tykha | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Denys Vorontsov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Anastiasiya Tykha | Camera Operator |
