Militantropos

Yelizaveta SMITH

Alina GORLOVA

Simon MOZGOVYI

Quinzaine 2025 | Feature film | 111 min | Ukraine, Austria, France |

World premiere | Film in competition for the Œil d'Or Award

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.

Artistic & technical sheet

Contacts

Screenplay

Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Maksym Nakonechnyi

Sound

Mykhailo Zakutskyi, Peter Kutin

Music

Peter Kutin

Photography

Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Khrystyna Lizogub, Denis Melnyk

Editing

Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi, Alina Gorlova

Yelizaveta Smith is a film director, co-founder of TABOR and a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her documentary, School Number 3, co-directed by Georg Genoux, won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury at the Berlinale 2017.

Alina Gorlova is a Ukrainian film director. She graduated from Karpenko- Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film & Television. She co-founded a production company, TABOR. Her documentary, No Obvious Signs, won the MDR film award for Best Eastern European Film at DokLeipzig.

Simon Mozgovyi is a Ukrainian film director. He studied Cinema and Television Arts at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, and then went on to study an advanced-level course in dramaturgy in Kyiv, where he began acting.