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CUBA & ALASKA Ukraine-France-Belgium, 2025, 93 min, color, documentary

A raw and intimate profile of two Ukrainian Medics from the frontlines of the war, Cuba & Alaska captures the funny, the arcane, the painfully tragic and surprisingly warm healing that make up a soldier’s emotional journey during wartime.  

Body cams, cell phones, and the interviewer’s camera fill in the story between the constant danger, bouts of survivors’ guilt, and a longing to ‘go back’ – to return to the life they had when dreams were still possible.  

Fueled by the enormously contagious laughter from Cuba, and the dark black humor of Alaska, the two best friends face down the unknown together with a warrior fierceness befitting Thelma & Louise.   

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Rome ’25 – Best Documentary

Yegor Troyanovsky

Yegor Troyanovsky

Yegor Troyanovsky is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He has solid professional experience in the audiovisual sector, working in film production, television programs, advertising, and music videos on Ukrainian and American TV.  His first full-length documentary film, Demon, was a participant in the XI Odesa International Film Festival and received the FIPRESCI award for best film. Now a soldier in the Ukrainian Special Forces, Yegor Troyanovsky first came across the story of Cuba and Alaska as a journalist covering the Russia-Ukraine war.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2015 Rear / short, doc.

2020 Demon / doc.

2022 Ukraine Overcoming the Darkness / doc.

2025 Cuba & Alaska

DIRECTOR
Yegor Troyanovsky
SCRIPT
Yegor Troyanovsky
CAMERA
Serhyi Stetsenko, Yegor Troyanovsky, Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Yevheniia Bondarenko, François Chambe
MUSIC
Frederik Van de Moortel
CAST
Olexandra – Alaska, Yulia Sidorova – Cuba
PRODUCERS
Olha Bregman, Christian Popp, Hanne Phlypo
PRODUCTION
2brave Productions, Tag Film, Clin d’Oeil Films

CUBA & ALASKA Ukraine-France-Belgium, 2025, 93 min, color, documentary

PROGRAM

Cultural Center G8
17:45 h
Euro Cinema
16:00 h

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