Cuba & Alaska

Two young Ukrainian women, codenamed Cuba and Alaska, volunteer for the front as paramedics. Amidst all the violence, pain and sorrow, they also find friendship, love and dreams of a life without war.

Director Yegor Troyanovsky started following Cuba and Alaska in the summer of 2022, and it is primarily the humor in their friendship that grabs your attention. Through black humor and hearty laughter in highly dramatic situations, the women take control of their own experience. We see how they fight to preserve their identity in extreme crcumstances, but we also join them in life outside the front lines: family, fashion designer dreams, travel, love and disappointments. Life goes on even as the war rages.

The close and warm relationship between Cuba and Alaska makes the unbearable possible to endure, and the film creates a safe space for the audience to step into and experience Ukrainian reality through. It is an intimate and bittersweet experience that stays with you for a long time.