Oleksandr Mykhed

Oleksandr Mykhed is a writer. He is the author of ten books. He has participated in literary residencies in Finland, Latvia, Iceland, the USA and France, and a virtual residency at Oxford University. He has written for publications including The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The Guardian, and has appeared as a guest on CNN and NPR. He is a member of PEN Ukraine.

corporal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, combat medic, reconnaissance, marine, poet, author of two collections of poetry, awarded with the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in literature 2024 for the second collection «Dasein: defense of presence«. Honoured with medals from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine «For Life Saving« and «For Military Service to Ukraine«.

Poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. He authored five books of poetry and the «Dictionary of War», a documentary book based on a testimony of participants and witnesses of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Ostap Slyvynsky is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philology, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). Since 2021, he organizes PEN Ukraine’s festival Propysy (The Writings) aimed at novice authors.

Oleksandr Sushko is an Executive Director of the International Renaissance Foundation since January 2018, (Open Society Network) based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Prior to that he worked as a Research Director of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (2006-2017), and Director of the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine (2000-2006). Since January 2011, he has served as Chairman of the Board of the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), Ukraine.

Institute of Philisophy GOV Ukraine

Born during deportation on August 3, 1957 in Uzbekistan. In 1980 he graduated from Andijan Medical Institute. In 1988 he returned to Crimea. In 2014, he did not recognize the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation in Crimea, for which he was sentenced to 2 years in prison, released by exchange in 2017 by agreement of the presidents of Turkey and the Russian Federation. Currently I live in Kyiv.

I was born in 1994 in Kherson (Ukraine). Since 2018, photography and filming have been my job. In 2020 I finished my education in the school of art photography “MYPH”. Since 2020, I have been creating creative photo projects and developing in the direction of conceptual photography. During this time, I created 9 photo projects and exhibited more than 20 times in Ukraine and other countries. Now I am taking my first steps in documentary filmmaking as a director.