If you want to fly, dig
Director: Serhii Lysenko
Country: Ukraine
Year of production: 2024
Duration: 21 min
Subject:
  • Right to life
  • The citizen and the state
Audience:
  • Teachers
  • Journalists
  • international audiences
  • Pupils
  • Students
  • Activists / NGOs

We see impressive videos of the work of drone operators in the media every day. The painstaking work that is done to prepare for it is usually left behind the scenes. And we are talking not just about organising the flight, but also such trivial things as, for instance, proper arrangement of positions. A well-dug shelter saves lives — this rule is the same both for infantry and for drone pilots.

One day in the life of the strike drone unit of the 47th Magura Separate Mechanised Brigade involves digging trenches, joking, combat missions, eating sandwiches under shelling, and digging trenches again. Because the better a fighted digs, the longer he lives.


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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)
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