film editor, director, DOP

KHARKIV CALLING
editor and dramaturg for cinematic documentary theatre, 2024-2025

A production of Costa Compagnie together with the Monologue Festival Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Directed by Felix Meyer-Christian. Shown at TD Berlin, at Monologue Festival and Parkaue Theatre. Reviewed by Berliner Morgenpost, TAZ – Die Tageszeitung, Nachtkritik.

More about the project on Costa Compagnie website

In August 2022, the Costa Compagnie conducted research in Eastern Ukraine. In Kharkiv and on the nearby frontline, they interviewed four women who volunteered for the armed struggle against the Russian attack and the autocratic system that came with it. The examination of the material poses the question: What would we do?

Zhenya is a human rights lawyer and now a drone pilot in a reconnaissance unit. Helena is a documentary film director and now a medic in a combat unit. Oksana and Tatjana, two press officers, report from the front with their cameras.

Ukrainian actress Anna Mrachkovska deals with the interviews and creates an intermedial monologue, including her own biography and refugee experience, which attempts to approach this radical present in a performative and cinematic way.

What values and systems are defended in Ukraine beyond one’s own life and country? Would one stake one’s life to fight for democracy and freedom? How does it feel to perform a theatre monologue about these questions 2,000 km away in Berlin, while friends and relatives at home are involved in warfare?

BERLIN STORY VIDEO

Film editor for BERLIN STORY (Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin Story Vorlag, Berlin Story News) - founded by Wieland Giebel and Enno Lenze.

Wie geht es weiter?

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A documentary dedicated to the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The film features interviews with 12 active members of the Ukrainian community in Berlin—artists, journalists, activists, educators, and the organization Vitsche—sharing their perspectives on the current state and future of Ukraine.

BERLIN STORY VIDEO

Film editor for BERLIN STORY (Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin Story Vorlag, Berlin Story News) - founded by Wieland Giebel and Enno Lenze.

POKROVSK

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Enno Lenze was at the front in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, in October 2024. He had the opportunity to speak with Vladislav Pospelov, the young head of the fire department, and participate in a mission. This 10-minute video also highlights the remarkable ability of these young people to reflect, as well as their courage and clarity.

IN THE MOUNTAINS FESTIVAL 2024

A film documentation of Sounth Caucasian queer festival in Berlin In The Mountains; a film essay about home, perception of queer body, and political resistance.

Organisers: Untitled Tbilisi, :DDD Kunsthouse, SKLAD, in collaboration with Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau / CYNETART, DOCA - Documentary Film Association Georgia

Director: Marichka Lukianchuk

DOP: Joanna Skupinska, Kristina Subotina

Editors: Marichka Lukianchuk, Joanna Skupinska

Sound mixing: Elline May Graf