NIGHT SHIFT, MEGUMI LIM, SHORTSFIT, SHORTSFIT DISTRIBUTION
NIGHT SHIFT, MEGUMI LIM, SHORTSFIT, SHORTSFIT DISTRIBUTION
NIGHT SHIFT, MEGUMI LIM, SHORTSFIT, SHORTSFIT DISTRIBUTION
NIGHT SHIFT, MEGUMI LIM, SHORTSFIT, SHORTSFIT DISTRIBUTION
NIGHT SHIFT, MEGUMI LIM, SHORTSFIT, SHORTSFIT DISTRIBUTION
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Night Shift

UKRAINE / 29 MIN. / 2025 / DOCUMENTARY / DCP 2K / 1.85:1 / 5.1 / COLOR

Subtitles in English, Ukrainian
In the dark hours of Kharkiv’s curfewed nights, a quiet tension hums through its empty streets. People who work at night navigate both routine and risk as Russia often attacks when residents try to sleep. Their nightly hope is that dawn will arrive quietly.

Festivals & Awards

Kyiv International Short Film Festival (UKR, 2025) – Audience Award

Berlin Indie Film Festival (DEU, 2025) – Best War Theme Film
Independent Shorts Award LA (August 2025 edition) (USA, 2025)- Best Short Documentary Platinum Award, Best First Time Female Director Silver Award 

Press - Interviews & Reviews

Festival reviews – Interview with Megumi Lim

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directed by

produced by

Marian Prysiazhniuk, Tetiana Burianova, Yevhen Yakovenko

executive producers

Megumi Lim, Marian Prysiazhniuk, Elizabeth Law, Isaku Lim, Chris Zikif, Katya Zikif

cinematography

Megumi Lim

editing

Megumi Lim

sound design

Dmytro Moroz, Andrii Duzenko

color grading

Kostiantyn Lishchyna

translations

Max Palamarchuk, Maksym Drabok

megumi's bio

Megumi Lim is a Kyiv-based documentary filmmaker from Singapore. She began her career as a video journalist in 2015 at the Reuters bureau in Tokyo, and for almost a decade - based in Tokyo and then as a freelancer in Beijing - she reported on news stories across Asia. She relocated to Ukraine in 2023, where she transitioned to storytelling through documentary film. Her journalistic work has been featured by Reuters, The Washington Post, The New York Times, ZDF, ITV News, The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, and others. She was part of the ZDF team that received the prestigious Hanns Joachim Friedrich's Prize for their reporting of the historic 2019 Hong Kong protest and on zero-covid China. Night Shift – a short film shot during the hours of curfew and tells the story of night shift workers in Ukraine’s frontline city of Kharkiv - marked her first entry into film festivals, where the film won the Audience Award. She was born in 1988 in Singapore, and studied oil painting at Tama Art University in Tokyo, and did her masters program in journalism at Waseda University in Tokyo.