Cuba & Alaska

Local title
Kuuba ja Alaska
Original title
Cuba & Alaska
Director
Yegor Troyanovsky
Year
2025
Festival
29th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Genre

Two Ukranian medics try to hold on to fragments of the normal life, hoping they can go back when the war is done.

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

Director
Yegor Troyanovsky
Screenwriter
Yegor Troyanovsky
Cast
Olexandra, Yulia Sidorova, Serhii Burden, Ruslan Takhmazov, Dmytro Shepelev, Vitalii Bobko, Kyrylo Romenskiyi
Producer
Olha Bregman, Christian Popp, Hanne Phlypo
Cinematographer
Serhyi Stetsenko, Yegor Troyanovsky, Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Yevheniia Bondarenko, François Chambe
Production Design
Romain Rihoux
Editing
Joëlle Alexis
Music
Frederik Van de Moortel
Sound
Ludovic Van Pachterbeke, Laurent Martin
Production
2Brave Productions (Ukraine), Tag Film (France), Clin d'Oeil Films (Belgium)
World sales
Java Films
Runtime
Subtitles
Director
Yegor Troyanovsky

Filmography:
Bes (2020, doc), Ukraine Overcoming the Darkness (2022, doc, co-dir), Cuba & Alaska (2025, doc)

Screenings

Screening021516 / Kuuba ja Alaska
SubtitlesEnglish
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Screening060820 / Kuuba ja Alaska
SubtitlesEnglish
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Hall 1 Kino Artis
Screening141618 / Kuuba ja Alaska
SubtitlesEnglish
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