The Days I Would Like To Forget
MILITANTROPOS captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war — those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight — tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness.
Amid devastation and atrocity, the human is absorbed into war — and war, in turn, becomes part of the human.
Data
- Category
- Documentary
- Financing
- Majoritäre Koproduktion
- Format
- Digit., 111 Min
- Release
- 27.02.2026
- Distribution
- FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
- Funding Film Institute
- 100.000 €
- Share of Austrian production costs
- 37 %
- Share of total production costs
- 18 %
- Funding ÖFI+
- 46.300 €
- Share of total production costs
- 8 %
- Co-production
Tabor Film (UA, 25%), Les Valseurs Bourdeaux (FR, 12%)
- International funding
IDFA, Göteborg Film Fund, Visions Sud Est, Nouvelle Aquitaine
- Funding program
- ÖFI, ÖFI+
- Status
- before release
- Film location
- Ukraine
- Shooting time
- April - June 2024
- Days of shooting
- 24
- Completion
- Winter 2024/2025
- Funding institutions Austria
- Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
- Production
- Mischief Films - Verein zur Förderung des Dokumentarfilms KG
- Producer Austria
- Ralph Wieser
- Director
- Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Yelizaveta Smith
- Script-concept
- Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Maksym Nakonechnyi, Yelizaveta Smith
- DOP
- Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Denis Melnik, Khrystyna Lizogub
- Editor
- Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi, Yelizaveta Smith
- Sound engineer
- Mykhailo Zakutskyi
- Green Film Consultant
- Marion Rossmann
- Production manager
- Susanne Berger
- International distribution
- Square Eyes
- Television investment
- SWR/ARTE
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