The Blessed Ones (2026)

The Blessed Ones is a Ukrainian documentary by Andrii Lysetskyi that follows artists whose lives and creative work have been transformed by Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. The film asks what an artist can contribute when ordinary life and familiar ideas of the world have been shattered.

Rather than attempting to summarize the war through headlines, the documentary observes its subjects closely and considers how artists process fear, loss, responsibility, and the need to preserve human experience. The result is a reflection on creativity and memory during wartime.

• Andrii Lysetskyi directed the documentary.
• The film runs for approximately 96 minutes.
• It is a Ukrainian, Latvian, and German co-production.
• The project received the Baltic Sea Docs Award in 2022.
• It was developed as part of ARTE's Generation Ukraine collection.