Babadoom
Director: Serhii Lysenko, Alina Logvinenko
Country: Ukraine
Year of production: 2026
Duration: 25 min
Subject:
- The citizen and the state
- Right to life
Audience:
- international audiences
- Pupils
- Journalists
- Teachers
- Activists / NGOs
- Students
During a storming mission, a commander has to make quick, unconventional and very risky decisions.
One of these decisions has been captured by military documentarians during the counteroffensive in the Zaporizhia Region. A brief consultation at the control and observation point with the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Hero of Ukraine Viktor Sikoza, quick planning with deminers and a “big badaboom” which paralyzed several enemy positions.
director
Serhii Lysenko
Serhii Lysenko is a Ukrainian documentary and feature film director who graduated from the Kyiv University of Theater, Cinema and Television. The topics of his documentaries include the Russian-Ukrainian war, Maidan, public movement, and ecology. In 2022, he joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as an officer of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade.
Selected Filmography:
Genie in the Air (2026), Rager (2025), Something More Than Life (2024), If You Want to Fly, Dig (2023), Apache Tribe (2023), Badaboom (2023), OurDay (2023), Say Ukraine (not completed due to the war) (2021), Estories. Battle for Paradise (2021), Our Chaplain (2020), Brothers in Arms (2018), Encyclopedia of Maidan (2015), Amosov — Century (2013), Heartbeat (2011), Trap (2008), Thaw (2007)
Alina Logvynenko
Alina Logvynenko is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, military documentarian, and Ukrainian Armed Forces officer. In 2022, she joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and became part of the mobile press group under the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She documented the war directly from the frontline, working with soldiers and commanders. She later headed the “Ravlyk” press group, with which she spent more than two years documenting the war and recording testimonies from Ukrainian service members.
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