Mila Teshaieva is a Ukrainian artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Her work is focused on the topics of national memories and collective identities on the territories of the former Eastern block. The retrospective of her work Imagined Communities was shown at the MIT Museum in Boston in 2018. From the very first days of the full-scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine Mila Teshaieva has been in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, photographing, filming, and writing on what she describes as “a defining moment of European history”. Lights is her second feature length documentary. Audience Award at HotDocs, German Documentary Film Award – Main Award, Grimme-Preis, AJB DOC FF – Main Award.
Ukraine