No Obvious Signs / Yavnyh proiaviv nemaie

No Obvious Signs is a documentary film about a female soldier who has just returned from the war and is undergoing a long process of rehabilitation. Talking with psychologists, battling PTSD and panic attacks, she tries to return to normal life and come to terms with the horrors of war.

“No Obvious Signs” is a phrase often said by doctors in hospitals when military personnel with psychological trauma come forward seeking help. If you don’t have physical injuries, doctors, just like society, don’t notice any problems or issues.

The film is a continuation of a short story filmed as part of the human rights project Invisible Battalion. It was there that viewers first saw Oksana Yakubiv, the deputy battalion commander. In the feature-length version, she became the main character, and her personal story was central to the plot.

This allowed the voice of a woman in war to be heard through the intimate story of a heroine who experienced war up close, having decided at one point to go to the ATO instead of her husband and son. However, the hardest part for her was returning to civilian life and trying to overcome post-traumatic stress disorder.

The film No Obvious Signs won the national competition at the DocudaysUA film festival, and received a special mention at the DOK Leipzig festival in Germany. It garnered positive reviews from the international press. The music for the film was composed by the well-known Kyiv electronic duo Ptakh_Jung.