Alisa Kovalenko: My Dear Theo
“With love from the front” (eng. My Dear Theo) on CPH:DOX 2025 
This is a text that I took from the FB of Alisa Kovalenko, if you go to that you will also notice the many people Alisa is thanking for the encouragement to make the film:
I didn’t believe at the beginning that from these small fragments of the past, letters and a small part of the shot fragrant footage on the front, could be born a movie, something intact, some fusion of memory, time…
After all, like so many of our other movies in the last 11 years, this movie should not have been… It was neither filmed nor intended to become a movie… In the first months of the full-scale war, cinema seemed to have lost all meaning and I was doing completely different tasks, but the camera stayed around as usual, just to capture some little moments to remember. She spent most of her time in her backpack, in sandbags, in blinders and trenches, lying and filled with smoke, dust and sand, lying as a silent reminder of the past, which was distant and pushed by a new reality. I wrote more than I filmed, wrote many letters then to my 5 year old son Theo in case i die and have something important to leave to him about me and all of us…
Only later did I begin to realize the deeper value of what I managed to preserve. People very close to me, brothers killed on the frontline they were also parents.. And I thought a lot about this movie, as a memory town between us and our children. After all, most of us parents have come to the frontline for our children’s future and it was important for me to remember that… So this movie for me became first and foremost about the light, tenderness, love that is so important to leave in the hearts of our children, our loved ones, even in death…
Today we can finally officially say that the world premiere of “With Love From The Front” (eng. My dear Theo) will be held on March 23 in Copenhagen, at one of the best festivals of documentary cinema, – CPH: DOX. It is particularly nice to have a Prime Minister in Denmark, a country that is one of the few European countries that provides financial support to Ukraine for weapons, which is in fact the most important support for our defense.
Pleased to invite everyone who will be at CPH:DOX for our premiere screening.
First thanks for the existence of this film Marina Stepanska which felt something special and valuable in my materials, otherwise all this would remain in the archives indefinitely.
A big and warm thank you to everyone with whom we worked on the film, everyone who inspired and supported, all my Ukrainian and French families.
And a separate big thank you to my dear brothers who have been with me side by side these first months of the full-scale war on the frontline.
