On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, igniting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II with global consequences. Four years later, the assaults on Ukraine and its people continue. On this occasion our CineClub presents a moving documentary by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi.

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.

Ukraine, Austria, France, 2025, 111min, documentary