“UNARMED” is a short creative documentary that emerges from a live choreographic process developed in Ukraine, in collaboration with women directly affected by war: artists, veterans, and serving military personnel. Rather than reconstructing events, the film attends to what the body carries: memory, silence, grief, resistance, and care. Positioned as dance reportage, “UNARMED” treats choreography as a form of testimony. Movement becomes a site of truth where lived experience is transmitted through gesture, breath, weight, and collective presence. The performers do not represent others; they witness their own histories.
The film was created through Moving Kinship Europe, an ethical and collaborative process that centers the participants’ agency and authorship. The camera remains close to the body as a living archive, resisting spectacle in favor of intimacy and precision. In a media landscape saturated with images of destruction, “UNARMED” proposes another way of seeing — one that insists on human connection, dignity, and the political power of embodied knowledge.
