In February 2023, ANUCES, in partnership with ANU Film Group and the Embassy of Ukraine, had a great pleasure to show a documentary Masha & Valentyna (2022) by Simon Target. 

Now, you can watch this documentary on SBS On Demand.   

Masha, 17, and Valentyna, 41, are just two of the estimated seven million women and children who have crossed the border into Poland in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. With unprecedented support from the government, they find safe haven in Polish homes, but face tough decisions for their future with their own families now split all across Europe.

Filmed largely by the women themselves on their own phones, this powerful documentary from Australian director Simon Target (The Polish Missionaries) takes us into the real lives of people forced out of their homes by war.