VARTA follows Ukrainian soldiers from different branches of the armed forces – army aviation, attack aircraft, tank crews, army medics, state emergency service responders, infantry, and drone operators – whose ordinary lives were abruptly transformed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

War changes the body before it changes the world, and the series follows that change in faces, voices, routines, and silences. Each protagonist carries the weight of the war in their own way: a young pilot flying at dangerously low altitudes, a former farmer fighting from a Soviet-era tank, a sapper clearing land poisoned by mines, a woman medic saving lives under fire, and rescuers who continue to search for life beneath the rubble.

After the screening, the audience will have a chance to meet Evgen Matvienko, Ukrainian filmmaker and director of VARTA and Mariana Shafro, Ukrainian photographer, filmmaker, and lead producer of VARTA. Together, they will speak about the project's making and the responsibility of documenting war and representing the voices of those defending Ukraine’s sovereignty to the world.

The screening is held with English subtitles.

📍 Ukraine House in Denmark, Strandgade 27B, Copenhagen
📅 10 May at 19:00

We hope you’ll join us!