Cuba & Alaska

Award-winning documentary in which two young women on the Ukrainian front fight, joke, and dream their way out of the war’s absurd and unforgiving everyday reality.

A duo with quirky nicknames are best friends working as medics at the front. They move back and forth between action-packed evacuations, nighttime callouts, and conversations about fashion collections and art from a life that feels far away yet still close. Told through shaky mobile phone footage and body cameras, the film offers a rare, intimate portrait that vibrates with closeness, tenderness, and exhaustion. Cuba and Alaska laugh, cry, and swear as the world around them falls apart. The film, which had its world premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest, has been internationally acclaimed and described as a" Ukrainian Thelma & Louise”.

• Peter Steen