Ihor Babaiev

Slowly Walking, Smoothly Thinking

War interferes not only in our present, but also in the past. Will the character be able to reconcile his childhood memories of home with the adult reality suddenly overtaken by war?

Storks Always Come Home

Gala and Viktor are searching for their Heaven on earth. Even during the war. That's why they buy an abandoned house in the Carpathian Mountains and start repairing it. It's a place of peace and calmness, where they can grow their own food, be silent, be defenseless, and drink coffee overlooking the mountains and a stork's nest. But winter comes, the apple tree in the yard freezes, and the War reaches Heaven.

Voice Messages from Bakhmut

Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy at a distance of the war, told via the voice messages of a foreign correspondent in a front-line city.