In 2014, Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy enlists to fight Russian military forces in the Donbass region, where he is captured by enemy soldiers. Now a prisoner of war, Serhiy is forced to witness horrifying scenes of humiliation and violence at the hands of the Russian invaders, his medical background co-opted to dispense mercy killings to the tortured. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment, still suffering from the trauma...

2003, four years before Slovakia entered the Schengen Area. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get illegaly to Germany through Slovakia, like many people before them. The border between Slovakia and Ukraine will be in a couple of years one of the most secured borders in Europe, but in 2003 it is still open for smugglers and for people hoping to find a new life in Western Europe. Martin and Denisija both dream about getting...

The film depicts the life of Alina Shilova, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty. Alina is now a professional player, but her situation remains uncertain: her mother suddenly dies, leaving behind Alina’s beloved siblings, Renat & Regina, 6 and 7 years old. Alina becomes a substitute mother. Her career plans are on the verge of collapse. The whole dysfunctional family is living in a cramped...

The young characters of this story have been told by their families that from now on everyone will need to wear protective masks and will need to stay away from each other. With new masks on their faces, the teenagers decide to go to an ice cream shop with their parents. They see it as a joke when adults on the streets wear strange hats as a reminder of the new laws. In any case, the use of masks and not interacting with people does not upset them,...

In Southern Ukraine, the port city of Kherson was the first major city to fall to Moscow's forces. Held hostage in their own homes, the people of Kherson have endured psychological horrors beyond imagination. Here, sometimes the silence is more frightening than the shelling. Some have escaped but are terrified to relate what they witnessed for fear of their families and relatives left behind. This documentary recounts the harrowing experience of invasion...

Jürgen Appelo, a successful entrepreneur and well-known leadership expert, is paving new paths in management to help creative organizations survive and succeed in the 21st century. His new book, Startup, Scalap, Scruap, is based not only on the author's own experience with startup management, but also on research and interviews conducted in many European countries. The main goal of the author is to unify the methods and tools that are successfully...

Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary film for BBC Eye, Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under occupation, as food and medicines become scarce, people flee, and others begin to disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shield their four-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war, and make the difficult decision...

How do desert animals and plants get their water? What animals live in the desert? Learn all about the desert and the species that call it home.

Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of...

What if Taras Shevchenko put down his pen and took a samurai sword into his hands?