Darya Averchenko


"Now is the time for maximum concentration: I remind this to myself all the time," says Darya Averchenko


Darya Averchenko (1983) is an Ukrainian producer and screenwriter. She has produced the films: Euromaidan. Rough cut (2014), Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015), Dixie Land (2016), Volcano (2018), Red Land (2022) and The Editorial Office (2024). She has also been one of the key figures behind the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. Together with Roman Bondarchuk she developed Kherson. The Steppe Holds, a multimedia exhibition dedicated to the Kherson region in Art Arsenal in Kyiv (June-September) 2025.

Ukrainian Sheriffs is a documentary film directed by Roman Bondarchuk and produced by Darya Averchenko. It premiered on 20 November 2015 at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize. This film, co-produced by Ukraine, Latvia, and Germany, also won the Grand Prix at the Polish Docs against Gravity film festival. In 2016, Ukraine nominated the film for an Oscar as its official entry for Best Foreign Language Film.

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UKRAINIAN SHERIFFS. HOLDING ON TO HOME by Roman Bondarchuk and Darya Averchenko

2026

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“Despite the film’s success, we were left with the feeling that we had not been able to show everything we had discovered about Stara Zburivka and its people. Now that the village no longer exists as we remember it, returning to these materials feels more important than ever. Through this exhibition, we want to preserve people’s voices and the memory of a world irrevocably transformed by war,” tells say the exhibition’s creators, Roman Bondarchuk and Darya Averchenko.

“Despite the film’s success, we were left with the feeling that we had not been able to show everything we had discovered about Stara Zburivka and its people. Now that the village no longer exists as we remember it, returning to these materials feels more important than ever. Through this exhibition, we want to preserve people’s voices and the memory of a world irrevocably transformed by war,” tells say the exhibition’s creators, Roman Bondarchuk and Darya Averchenko.