Militantropos
TITLE
Militantropos
DIRECTOR
Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi
COUNTRY
Austria, France, Ukraine
YEAR
2025
DURATION
111′
GENRE
Documentary
Militantropos
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.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyii
Alina Gorlova is a film director, co-founder of Tabor LTD, a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her latest documentary, THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP, won the award for Best First Appearance at IDFA, the Best Feature Award at Festival dei Popoli, GoEast, Beldocs, One World a.o.. Yelizaveta Smith is a film director, co-founder of Tabor LTD, a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her documentary, SCHOOL NUMBER 3, co-directed by George Genoux, won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury Berlinale 2017, and a Special Award at HumanDOC Festival in Warsaw. Sundance Screenwriters Lab Alumni. Simon Mozgovyi s a Ukrainian film director and film editor, a member of the National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine. His debut documentary, THE WINTER GARDEN’S TALE (2018), premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF and then participated in DOK Leipzig, won the Best Ukrainian Film Award at Docudays UA IHRDFF.
- DirectorAlina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi
- ScreenplayYelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Maksym Nakonechnyi
- CinematographyViacheslav Tsvietkov, Khrystyna Lizogub, Denys Melnyk
- Cast
- EditingYelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi, Alina Gorlova
- Producer/s Eugene Rachkovsky
- Production Company
- Distributor/sSquare Eyes Sales Agent Worldwide All Rights
- Project TitleMilitantropos
- Project TypeDocumentary
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originAustria, France, Ukraine
- Country of filmingAustria, France, Ukraine
- LanguageEnglish, Ukrainian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, Simon Mozgovyi
Alina Gorlova is a film director, co-founder of Tabor LTD, a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her latest documentary, THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP, won the award for Best First Appearance at IDFA, the Best Feature Award at Festival dei Popoli, GoEast, Beldocs, One World a.o.. Yelizaveta Smith is a film director, co-founder of Tabor LTD, a member of the Ukrainian and European Film Academy. Her documentary, SCHOOL NUMBER 3, co-directed by George Genoux, won the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury Berlinale 2017, and a Special Award at HumanDOC Festival in Warsaw. Sundance Screenwriters Lab Alumni. Simon Mozgovyi s a Ukrainian film director and film editor, a member of the National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine. His debut documentary, THE WINTER GARDEN’S TALE (2018), premiered at Ji.hlava IDFF and then participated in DOK Leipzig, won the Best Ukrainian Film Award at Docudays UA IHRDFF.
