Roman Bondarchuk

"All my stories are about Ukraine", says Roman Bondarchuk

Roman Bondarchuk (1982) is an Ukrainian filmmaker and producer born in Kherson. His best-known documentaries include Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014) and Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015). His fiction feature films are Volcano (2018) and The Editorial Office (2024). He is a graduate of Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema, and Television. Bondarchuk's feature film Volcano (2018) was premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, and won 12 awards, including the Shevchenko National Prize, the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and the arts. Roman also works as an art director of the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

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. 2025, Artist talk at Ukrainian Cultural Festival, Razom Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOj8rGgy- 2024, Variety :https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/the-editorial-office-review-redaktsiya-1235914535/ 2026, 23 Feb, Roman Bondarchuk’s Ukrainian badlands | Klassiki Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_5bPp3pTi0 2017, https://vgoru.org/novini/roman-bondarchuk-sidyat-rezhissery-iz-latvii-i-germanii-i-sokrushayutsya-chto-net-vnyatnogo-rossijskogo-geroya 2018, https://www.currenttime.tv/a/29455520.html

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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.