The selection committee behind the projects evaluation included Dennis Ruh, Director Seriesly Berlin, Sergio García de Leániz, Promotion Programme Manager and Project Manager at Eurimages, curator of the Promotion Programme, Elma Tataragić, Screenwriter and Main Programmer of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Competition Programme, Iryna Kyporenko, Head of the Film Department at the Ukrainian Institute, and Anastasiya Volkova, Head of Arts Programmes at the Ukrainian Institute. 

The selected projects are:  

• «Silent Flood», Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, producers Karina Kostyna, Eugene Rachkovsky, co-producer Tanja Georgieva-Waldhauer 

A closed religious community has chosen to live in a beautiful landscape, where the front lines of both World War I and World War II once passed. It’s a sunny village filled with the laughter of children from large families. Yet, the community’s peaceful life is frequently disrupted by floods and war – the events that mark the collective memory of the community. Nature and war are both relentless forces. The community comes together to overcome the aftermath of floods. Together with the community, we observe transformations, where the current war interwines with the past ones, but the feeling of home can never be taken away from anyone. 

• My Dear Théo, Director Alisa Kovalenko, producers Katarzyna Kuczyńska, Tomasz Morawski, Oleksandra Kravchenko, Darya Bassel 

Ukrainian volunteer soldier, filmmaker, and mother Alisa Kovalenko creates a testament to the power of love in times of war—balancing frontline routines, the horrors of the battlefield, and tender, poetic letters to her little son, Théo. 

• Divia, Director Dmytro Hreshko, producers Polina Herman, Glib Lukianets, co-producer Richard Valk 

Divia is a meditative, sound-driven journey through a wounded land—an elemental portrait of Ukraine before, during, and beyond the full-scale invasion. Without dialogue or narration, the film unfolds as a metaphysical symphony, where landscapes bear silent testimony to destruction and quiet resilience. Ashen forests, cratered fields, and the rusting skeletons of war machines haunt the frame—each image a trace of the violence etched into the soil. 

Yet even here, nature does not halt. Seasons return. Grass pushes through scorched earth. Regeneration begins—slowly, insistently. Through this reverent silence move deminers, body searchers, environmentalists, and animal rescuers. Their presence, almost spectral, speaks of both grief and grace. Divia invites viewers into a space where beauty and devastation coexist, and where the act of witnessing becomes a form of renewal.   

In 2025, the Ukrainian Institute continues to implement the programme in collaboration with Eurimages, the cultural support fund of the Council of Europe.  

Throughout the year, at least seven film projects will be selected to receive up to 8,000 euros for promoting their film abroad. Film projects not selected in the first or second call may be submitted to the next call.