MILITANTROPOS,  a documentary coproduced by Vienna-based Mischief Films together with Ukraine and France, will celebrate its world premiere at the Cannes Quinzaine des Cinéastes section.
The directing collective consisting of Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith and Simon Mozgovyi observes the transformations that make people a part of war and war a part of people.

Cannes 2025:
MILITANTROPOS at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes

Creating relevant films collectively was the impetus for young filmmakers from Kiev to found the Tabor production lab more than ten years ago. For Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mosgovyi, creating images together to counter the inescapable reality of chaos and destruction in the sudden state of war became an existential strategy. MILITANTROPOS explores the double nature that military violence turns people into, allowing a profound collective portrait and a narrative to emerge in the turmoil of loss and solidarity, which brings together meaning where solid ground seems to shatter.

MILITANTROPOS, coproduced by Vienna-based Mischief Films together with Ukraine and France, celebrated an enthusiastically acclaimed world premiere at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes on May 21. The directing collective Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi observes the transformations that make people a part of war and war a part of people.

MILITANTROPOS is the first part of the trilogy THE DAYS I WOULD LIKE TO FORGET portraying a country at war. Part 2 and 3 will be completed in 2026.

The camera- and soundwork is often striking and the result absorbing.
Screen Daily
 
An exquisitely crafted vérité journey
Indiewire