How do you collect people’s stories in the middle of a war, and how do you ensure that their voices - as well as yours - are heard and protected? These are questions filmmakers have wrestled with since time immemorial, and have grown more pressing since the outbreak of the Russian war on Ukraine. Several directors have taken it upon themselves to reach the frontlines. Two of them, Oksana Karpovych and Roman Bondarchuk, whose films "Intercepted" and "The Editorial Office" are screening in this year’s Forum programme, join Kyiv Critics' Week co-curator Daria Badior to reflect on their own ways of gathering and working with people’s testimonies in times of war, as well as reflect on their related roles as filmmakers, journalists, archivists, festivals directors, fixers, and activists. Moderated by Katya Mishchenko from the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Germany, the event is also part of their series “Up to East”.