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Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion, a contemporary artist Roman, who has issues with alcohol, tries to find understanding with his loved ones: his parents, wife, and lover. Caught up in a cycle of recurring events and circumstances, Roman turns to his past in order not to lose himself in the present.
Businessman Vlad Artemiev returns to his native home, where he learns about the death of his father, with whom he has not been in touch for almost a quarter of a century. Memories of the past prevent Vlad from moving on, so he tries to correct all his mistakes. What was hiding behind the long silence of the closest men?
The film takes place in 1905. The main character is a lawyer Mykhalyuk, a social revolutionary, an intellectual. He is the bearer of destructive power aimed at loved ones. Peace of mind leaves everyone who falls under its influence. He tries to compensate for his spirituality with love adventures.
When greedy property developers attempt to force the feisty 67-year-old Natalia off her small plot of land – a garden oasis in the midst of an apartment complex in Kyiv – she fights back, refusing to be defeated. When her entire country is subsequently invaded by ruthless land-grabbing individuals, her rebellious fight only grows stronger in spirit.
A young woman named Jessica is involved in a car accident on the eve of her wedding. Her face is disfigured. To earn money for plastic surgery, she takes a job as a stripper in a nightclub cabaret, hiding her face behind a mask.
A short animation about identity.
The story of three Czechs who doubted the reality of the war in Ukraine. Together with the film crew, they went from Prague to Kharkiv, and then to the Donbas. The Czechs were under fire, saw the wounded, mass graves and underground schools.
When the immortal spirit of his evil uncle is unleashed, Sultan Suleiman and a Ukrainian girl Nastya, who was abducted from her home and forced into his Harem (were she was named Roxelana), embark on a quest together to acquire a number of magical relic weapons needed to retake control of the Ottoman Empire.
The adventures of two buddies, Alik and Lyolik. Alik is an encyclopedic example of a Ukrainian homo-sovieticus: he loves salo and vodka, speaks in wild surzhyk and has a tattoo of Joseph Stalin on his chest. Lyolik is also a homo sovieticus: he always wears an ushanka and cannot imagine his life without bribes and corruption schemes.
In a young actress sitting in a hospital office, we recognize a youthful Persephone. She is facing surgery that may become the final act of her personal play. By signing the consent form, the doctor, Hades, stamps the paper with a seal shaped like an obelisk — the coin given to souls in Greek mythology for their passage to the underworld. This gesture symbolizes the fatality of her decision.
A story of Belarusians who were subjected to repression. The film was made on the basis of 25 interviews with victims and chronicles. The film shows the path of a detainee at a protest in Belarus: march and detention, a ride in a prison truck, registration at a police station, trial, prison, release, and reflection on the experience.
A middle-class businessman is killed at his workplace in his office. The suspect - his business partner - Latunin was the last visitor and, according to the pretty witness of Vera's secretary, they had some kind of financial conflict with the murdered man. While the suspect is at large, the life of the only witness is in danger. And management instructs Igor to look after Vera, who turns out to be a sweet, charming, sexy woman. Igor's family relationships are going through a difficult period of divorce from his wife, so Igor rushes headlong into an unexpected bright and passionate "service" romance...
A free adaptation of Franz Kafka’s diary entries. A celebrated writer is widely regarded as a genius. But behind the mask of a thoughtful, smiling face hides an unhappy man with his own demons, fears, creative torment, and endless search for self and the surrounding world—an eternal outsider, condemned to loneliness among people, who feels himself as the Other.
A documentary story about the participation and victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 by the Ukrainian band Kalush Orkestra.
The collection of miniatures. The first is called "Glasses" and it deals with how a man with poor eyesight once ordered the glasses at his wife’s insistance. His sight came back to him, and with it the ability to see what dowdy and ugly his wife is and how uncomfortable their house is. In such a situation, he chose not to wear glasses. Thumbnails "Othello" and "Big and small" are also about the relationship between men and women.
A case of mistaken identity lands solitary gas attendant Serhii in heaven. To earn his way back, he's tasked with locating an individual whose life he can positively impact, spurring his pursuit to reconnect with the father he never met.
Ivan is a simple, good-hearted man who wakes up in his apartment and notices a mare named Kasia just outside his window. Being a kind soul, he keeps her and takes her around the city. What is that mare capable of, and where do you find a shelter for her? Kasia becomes a problem for Ivan and the subject of all kinds of speculation. But unlike everyday problems, you can easily get rid of it by letting go of the reins.
In 1944 Crimean Tatars has suffered a long road in exile. It was accompanied by famine, illness and loss. In the first years of exile, almost half of deported Crimean Tatars died. But those, who survived, dreamed of only one thing - to return to Crimea. The documentary 1944 tells about the tragedy of all Crimean Tatars through several separate life stories. They are cherished by each Crimean Tatar family and must be remembered by all generations to come.
Three natives of the former USSR commit a daring robbery of a German bank. Having bagged three hundred thousand euros and taken a bank employee hostage, the bandits set off through Poland to Ukraine. The situation is complicated by the fact that at one of the Polish gas stations they have to take another woman hostage. Now the law enforcement agencies of three countries - Germany, Poland and Ukraine - face a difficult task: neutralizing the criminals without harming the hostages.
Since the very beginning of Ukrainian independence, Russian propaganda has deceived the miners of Donbass. They were told that the entire economy of Ukraine is surviving just due to their work, and if they separate from Ukraine, all the money from the sold coal will remain in the Donbass. In fact, all mines were unprofitable and survived on subsidies. So when Russia held a referendum for the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics in the occupied part of Donbass in 2014, miners gladly supported it. However, it has become clear that Russia is not interested in the development of mines. Moreover, Russia has started to rob mines and fire workers. The film tells in detail why the miners believed the propaganda, how Russians looted the mines and mocked the miners, and what the economic consequences of the conflict were. Initially, the project was conceived as a 4-episode project-series, but in the end one episode was filmed, which became a full-fledged film.
In the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible revenge?
It's a kaleidoscope of children's lives, emotions and dreams during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The children will try to survive and overcome the traumas caused by the war by talking through and immersing their memories.
The film explores the feelings of ordinary people involved in a global conflict – a war. The authors show a simple story of the detention of Ukrainian soldier Mykola by a German commandant from the point of view of Mykola’s grandson, who was born 46 years after the war.
During a year of the war, Ilya 'Hottabych' Lysenko, a participant in the Maidan and a successful financial director, managed to create a team of five medical crews who evacuate the injured under fire from the hottest flashpoints on the frontline.
Alexandra, a young girl of seventeen, goes to Moscow to study painting and to find love. After a while, however, she discovers that her dreams are not easily reached. She has to leave Moscow, unable to enrol in a college or to meet her beloved. Eventually, her real talent and love will find a way to shine.
Eight friends meet in Odesa to look at their friend's new entertainment club. The club has many exciting rooms where you can play the usual games - "mafia" or "crocodile", but the main concept of the club is "Detectorroom" - a room with an unique and super-accurate lie detector. The owner of the club tries to dissuade his friends to play a dangerous game, but everyone wants to nerve their nerves and to find out each other's private secrets. Friends have a good time and joking with each other, but after four game tours (Fun, Strip, Full Play and Duel), they will never be the same again. But who knows, maybe, it's even better?
The day before his wedding, handsome and merry Figaro learns of the bride Susanna, but he has a rival - voluptuous Count Almaviva. Count intends to use the old right of the first night in his possessions and to steal from the lovers their happiness. The case becomes more complicated as another lover - Marceline claims her love for Figaro as well, requiring a considerable amount of money to return and marry her.
Police Inspector Mikhail is investigating the murder of a young woman whose body was discovered in a forest. As the body was mutilated, the victim's identity is proving difficult to establish…
Ivanka, an owner of a small Kyiv caffee, faces debt and decides to sell her only piece of inheritance—her grandmother's house in a small town in the Poltavschynna region. Soon, the girl discovers that the house is inhabited by a house spirit named Roman, a young, seductive handsome man who will do anything to save the house from being sold.
The protagonist worked at a research institute, designed a new type of aircraft engine. Once he showed the work to a colleague to consult with him, and he safely stole the work and defended his doctorate. The hero’s wife left for Italy with the boss allegedly on a business trip.
For two years, Anatoli and Svetlana have been living under bombardments in their village, Pesky, not far from Donetsk Airport. Aged 72, they spend a large part of their days in the cellar of their house. They are the only ones that stayed in Pesky, which once had 3,000 inhabitants. They no longer have water, or gas, or electricity. But they resist and continue their activity as beekeepers.
Dzidzio is a great artist and a naive child at the same time. All his life he hides one little secret that turns into a huge problem. This time, neither the best mom nor his coolest friend will not be able to help him. Because such a delicate matter Dzidzio must decide for the first time.
The story of life and death of actor Ivan Mykolaychuk - the legend of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The film is stylized as Vertep Christmas mystery: the heroes are explaining themselves with the roles they play.
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the lives of the doctors at Ohmatdyt changed forever. Yet they continue to save young patients and, with professionalism, care, tenderness, and even humor, hold on to a sense of normalcy that no longer exists.
On the verge of despair, she is ready to leave everything, but at the last moment she returns - and it changes everything.
At the age of 16, Maria is in despair after the death of her mother as her life turns into hell. But she has to deal with the new circumstances. Every day turns into a trial. She is being isolated in a small apartment in one of Kyiv’s Residential districts, constantly suffering from sexual abuse. Being forced into this situation yet again, Maria decides on a desperate deed to put an end to years of violence from which she has suffered.
The war in Yugoslavia attracted the attention of the whole world. That's where the first one went in 1992 peacekeeping contingent of Ukraine. But bringing peace and salvation they could not imagine what enemy will have to face.
The heroine lives in Kyiv in the present and sees dreams with the recurring motif that takes place eighty years ago. In these dreams, she searches for her home and waits for her beloved husband. The dreams are permeated with fear and the foreboding of a war that could leave her without a husband and home. The film was conceived as a psychoanalytical visual essay on how a subject who has experienced loss tries to assemble themselves from splinters: fragments of memories, dreams, bodily sensations - to find this new self-image 'on the other side of the mirror' after the Other has disappeared.
What would a priest be prepared to do to save a lost soul if he has little time? A father provokes a criminal to bet that the end of the world will happen tomorrow. Everyone will have to put something that is most dear to him into play.
A short story about the post-traumatic experience of Ukrainian refugees in Europe after being occupied by Russian troops in the spring of 2022.
On a New Year's Eve journalist Tanya is setting on a train by her friend, for this removing another passenger. Friend says that Tanya is a surgeon and she's having an important surgery tomorrow. Drunk lawyer Tolia sit down in the same compartment. Train brakes, suitcase puts down and cuts off Tolya's finger. Now Tanya as a surgeon must save Tolya's life.
The bonds between different generations of women in the director's family, from her great-grandmother to herself, highlight a matriarchal line focused on the daughter-daughter relationship, which tries to tell a different family model, far from the patriarchy that continues to prevail in the majority in our society.
Have you ever been haunted by terrible nightmares about doctors? All the evil spirits led by Wiy the radiologist and all the worst from the field of medicine await you in the animation "Clinic".
The story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
A documentary about people who live "outside the system": patients in psychiatric clinics, homeless people, and other marginalized individuals who differ from the social norm.
A Scottish-Pakistani dad’s life spirals into chaos as he battles his orthodox father’s ultimatum to circumcise the grandson.
On February 24th, 2022, Russia invades Ukraine. The news reaches the director, Rostislav Kirpicenko, in Paris, where he has been living for many years. The war raises questions about exile... In search of answers, Rostislav travels to Lithuania, where his grandfather settled, before returning to Dnipro, the Ukrainian town where he grew up.
The film is made from home video recordings made by a Ukrainian family in 2002-2008. Like most home videos focusing on children, they convey the feeling of a beginning and perspective - but also of repetitiveness, mundanity, the hum of time. What is our 'together' made of? What connections keep us together? Through vernacular videos from the past, the film seeks to speak (often in baby talk and children's riddles) about plurality, rootedness, about us.
A sincere and loving young man tirelessly cares for his family, ensuring their lives are full of harmony and beauty every day. Devoid of domestic problems, his loved ones, on the contrary are burdened with laziness, anger and despair. So he decides to show his love for them in a different way, to go to the front as a volunteer, hoping that this will encourage them to rethink their values. However, he faces fierce resistance, which exposes the core question: are they worthy of his love?
If you are young and beautiful, if you draw men affection and women jealousy, if you are being courted by two most handsome guys in your college, it is easy to accept an illusion that this world was created just for you. But sooner or later you'd need to make a choice. What is more important - flamboyant gestures or quiet devotion? Strength or care? insistence or ability to forgive?
Business analyst Andriy, loaded with his work affairs and responsibilities, takes care of his father's post surgery rehabilitation. Trying to be in several places at the same time and worrying about the needs of others, Andrew forgets about his own.
The young street musician girl must to conquer her own fears and ghosts from the past of social influences from Ukraine, where she grown up, in order to admit her feelings to other deaf-mute girl and make a right decision till it's too late.
1933 Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine. The House of Soviet Writers of Ukraine, 'The Word'. After a decade of flourishing activity by Ukrainian writers, everything changed... In the middle of the night, the NKVD car takes one of the writers away, then he is declared a public enemy. Now, two of his friends, famous Soviet writers, must choose how to protect themselves and their families from the terrible fate that hangs over the entire house.
The story about the choice that has to be made between loved ones and morality when there is no other option for development. The two main characters of the film are forced to make this choice in their respective relationships: Sasha with her own husband and Anya with her son. The drama of the situation is exacerbated when they are involved in crime.
In 1890, in one of the villages of Ukrainian Polissia, a man died under mysterious circumstances. The locals blamed his wife, a young healer, and banished her from the village. When affliction came to the village, people believed they had been cursed by the castaway woman. They discovered she was living in the forest, found her and burned her alive as a witch. But before doing it, they sent a priest to have a final conversation with her.
About events that took place on board of an international flight during a mafia showdown.
The story of the everyday life of one of the most unknown countries on the European continent. The film tells the stories of heroes from different parts of Ukraine, their life and life, crafts and art, interesting initiatives and culture. The characters of this film are not interconnected, their worlds are different, however, this difference unites the country.
When war erupts in his homeland of Ukraine while visiting Los Angeles, a young traveler Andrii faces a soul-searching journey. He grapples with the guilt of leaving his country behind and the desire to return and make a difference. Through near-death experiences and cultural clashes, he learns the true meaning of nationalism and the power of love.
Comedy mockumentary film. A group of documentary filmmakers makes films about life in Brovary (Kyiv region, Ukraine). Unexpectedly, they manage to shoot a real hero with superpowers. His name is Captain Brovary, he is quite narcissistic, but is loved by all the locals. However, a competitor appears on the horizon. His name is Black Exterminator.
Even before the days of top-rated global shows, Ukrainian television had no money for international formats. To retain viewers, TV workers created original programs. As a result, cult TV shows appeared and gave Ukraine stars who became symbols of the era. Ihor Pelykh sends strangers on a romantic journey, Kuzma Skryabin makes the contestants spend money quickly, and Ihor Kondratyuk makes stars in one day. This is a story about the diverse and sincere Ukrainian television of the noughties, the legacy it left and why everything changed.