Tetiana Khodakivska is a member of the European Film Academy, a Sundance Institute and the Institute for Human Science Grantee. The recent short documentary she co-directed "Once upon a time in Ukraine” was shortlisted for Oscar 2025 . Tetiana is particularly interested in examining society from children’s perspectives. Among her awards is the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival, 2014 for the period mini-series “Angels of War”, which follows the stories of siblings during World War II. Her cinema vérité documentary about mortality, “Enticing, Sugary, Boundless or Songs and Dances about Death” was premiered at the Ji.hlava Film Festival and nominated as best documentary at the Ukrainian Film Academy Awards, 2018.