With Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan
The Chair in European Intellectual History at the Munk School, Marci Shore, in collaboration with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), invites you to the first screening of My Dear Théo (2025) with Alisa Kovalenko and Stéphane Siohan.
Alisa Kovalenko is an award-winning Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and former soldier. After documenting the early stages of the war in Donbas—where she was captured by Russian-backed separatists—she later joined the Ukrainian Volunteer Army following the full-scale invasion in 2022. Her deeply personal film My Dear Théo began as a video diary for her son, created from the front lines to capture “a landscape of beauty and death.”
Stéphane Siohan, her partner, is a senior French journalist and filmmaker based in Kyiv since 2013, and one of the foremost international correspondents covering Ukraine. Together, Kovalenko and Siohan have spent over a decade chronicling Ukraine’s wartime realities through cinema and reportage.
This screening and panel discussion offer a rare opportunity to engage with two voices who have lived and documented Ukraine’s ongoing struggle with remarkable courage and honesty.
REGISTRATION
Please note that all our events are free and open to all, but you need to register!
For any questions, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca
LOCATION
In-person in the COHDS Sunroom (LB-1019).
You will find us on the tenth floor of Concordia’s Library Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Quebec.
COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
