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Tymofiy Sautkin, a potter from Kyiv, is trying to escape from daily routine and his quarrelsome wife. He finds himself on an island, where he sculpts an ideal woman out of clay. However, time passes, and he comes back home…
1889. A family of two is making a short stop for lunch in the open air far from any settlements. They meet a stranger who has lost his horse and is now looking for a way. But it seems that he is looking for more than just the road.
While he was fleeing Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych tried to destroy all the evidence of his government's corrupt activities. In order to save the drowned, slashed and burned papers and bring about the punishment of the criminals in power, journalists and volunteers organized the White Collar Unit, which day by day is building up valid proof of the crimes from the tiniest pieces.
War interferes not only in our present, but also in the past. Will the character be able to reconcile his childhood memories of home with the adult reality suddenly overtaken by war?
A loser cop Tolik kills his wife. Turns out, her body has an incredible power - it can heal. Out of this skill, Tolik and his friend build a good business. But one day a big client approaches them, leading the town to judgment day.
The protagonist goes on a sea cruise, during which he meets charming girls with whom he later falls in love. He is surrounded by amusing characters: a chronic bachelor, a "smuggler" barmaid, and little twin pranksters. Because of the twins' pranks, the movie characters ended up on an island that, as it turns out, belongs to an old hippie saxophonist named Hill. They believed that it was a desert island and started their new life as "robinsons". Years pass... Many children appear on the island, and Hill dies. Suddenly, everyone finds out that they are not living on an island, but at a radioactive waste dump.
Docufiction about a young couple what are torn from the world for one long night in a hotel room in a town near the border. That night they agreed not to talk about the war. Completely lost in each other' s small world, they don't realize when the morning comes and force them to go back to reality.
Finally, after a long time, Scriptwriter has been given the opportunity to write a movie script. From excitement for possible failure, the Main Character of his story comes to him personally.
How does war resonate in a peaceful life? How does it melt in the mind of a creative person? In the documentary film "Wind from East" the authors are looking for answers to these questions. In the picture, the two worlds are peace and war, but peace is a theater where preparatory rehearsal work takes place, and war is also a theater, but at war. There is another world that stands alone - it is a play played by actors, rethinking their own experience of involvement in the war and the texts of Alexander Dovzhenko and contemporary Ukrainian authors. These worlds combine interviews with people, with those who joined the actors' trips to the east, with the military, who received the actors and became spectators directly on the front line.
The family has to celebrate the New Year at the new place for the first time. Despite all the efforts, there is no holiday spirit and everything goes wrong. Almost everything.
The girl Hanusya and her younger brother Andriyko lived in the village, whose mother was taken captive by the Horde, and whose father, who went to free her, also disappeared. The Cossack Stepan is courting Hanusya, but she promised to marry only after the return of her parents. All three find themselves in danger, because they are pursued by the devil, who was driven out of hell by Satan himself, having ordered to harm at least one human soul.
Even despite the terrible events associated with Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, people continue to live showing their fortitude - For example, Kharkiv Music Fest did happen.
A tale of a mystical helping hand to a woman who lost her husband in a battlefield.
The girl forbids the boy from opening the blue folder, but temptation gradually turns his life into a nightmare.
Deep love has finally happened in Ukraine.
A documentary-experimental video about the personal and collective connection to Ukraine’s lost waters: the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Kakhovka Reservoir.
The frozen black and white photographs are brought to life by the sounds of the street: the sweeping of broken glass, cries for water and air raid alerts. But what does the UN Security Council Presidency have to do with it?
In an age when disinformation muddles the truth, a newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin’s man made famine was just beginning in Ukraine. Clyman’s newly discovered newspaper articles for Toronto and London newspapers in 1932 show her remarkable resourcefulness and courage. After she was banished from the USSR for writing about the Holodomor and the Gulag, this brave woman went on to cover Hitler’s early lethal years in power.
A lonely girl is coming back home from a cinema.
The film was shot in the village of Rusyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Once, a local resident erected a memorial stone cross here in memory of himself when he was leaving for Canada with his family. Vasyl Stefanyk recorded this story here, and in 1968 Leonid Osyka filmed it in Rusyn. Thirty years later, his student Oles Sanin returned to tell the story of the film's creation, talk to the local participants in the filming, and show them “The Stone Cross“.
One day, s(he) was brave enough to explore the limits of her body. Or was it a body exploring the limits of her?
A documentary project that shows viewers behind the scenes of this cultural exchange and explores the current processes of integrating Ukrainian culture into the European context. The heroes of the project are the participants and visitors of the festival, who demonstrate with their own stories the unique connection and cultural integration of Ukraine into the plane of Liverpool, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. In particular, Sarah Fisher, director of Liverpool's Open eye gallery, Yuliia Kurinna, a volunteer and displaced person from Nova Kakhovka, and actor and director Yurii Radionov will share their thoughts.
Five Ukrainian children out of the many who have experienced absolute horror during the Russian war of aggression, lost parents, experienced destruction and the need to flee. The documentary allows them to have their say whilst documenting their trauma and displacement, as well as the courage and creativity with which they defy the war.
This short film is a grotesque reflection of the threat of death that could come at any moment from Russian missiles and other weapons. This artistic expression sends a shout-out to John Smith, an English avant-garde director. Film is an embodiment of the idea that a person feels safe when he or she has a sense of control.
The animated picture, created using the graphic technique of transfer animation, presents a vivid and fairy-tale love story. The characters in love suddenly have wings because of such feelings, which motivate them to do different things.
In 1904, the struggle against the landlords is gaining momentum. The peasants come to the landlords to fight for justice, but they encounter soldiers. What will the peasants do? Defend the truth or remain enslaved? What will the soldiers choose? Callously kill on orders, or remain pure before God, conscience, and people? 2014 - Euromaidan. And again the people are against the government... So whose truth will win? Whose language does God speak?
A documentary on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is one of the oldest and most valuable treasures inherited from Kyivan Rus. It has always been revered worldwide as the most sacred place of Orthodoxy the cloister that the Blessed Virgin chose for Her abode. This film tells about the cloister‘s history, the architecture and interiors of all churches of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the deeds of the Pechersk Saints and the monastery‘s present day.
A story about a woman who tries to solve problems with the help of psychotherapist sessions. They talk, do art therapy, but during the next session she goes far into the subconscious and whether she will be able to get out and solve problems, or whether it will only increase internal fears.
The emotional and philosophical impetus for the creation of the film was Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko. It also became an integral part of the film’s content: Shevchenko’s lines transcend the distances of time, resonating as contemporary and relevant.
In one of the first films about the European Court of Human Rights, top human rights cases reflect human dramas which brought the applicants to the Court.
A young German girl Magda Homann was destined to fall victim to two World Wars at once, Kaiser's Germany and Tsarist Russia, the Hitlerite and Stalinist regimes. Having started a new German-Ukrainian history, she falls into the hands of the NKVD and her trail is mysteriously lost. But the search for Magda Homann by her German and Ukrainian grandson continues 70 years later.
Manya and Sanya are the regular kids who spend most of the time playing video games. But once while being on the beach they find something totally unexpected...
In a world where you can buy or rent absolutely everything, a young family decides to pull off a scam, and to do so, they rent a little girl from an orphanage. But even in such a world, there is always room in people's hearts for something more.
In a delicate and humane manner, this film touches upon a very serious issue: how to stop fearing death while being in love with life. We talk (and laugh) about this subject with the protagonists of this film, modern geniuses and ordinary people from different parts of the world.
Marina becomes a victim of her fantasies. Everyone she loves leaves her. The girl has only one thing left that brings pleasure - archery. Marina is trying her best to get to the nearest archery tournament. But life throws up new real and imaginary problems for the girl that can hinder her.
Nikita taught clarinet, saxophone and conducting at the Chernihiv Music College. When the Russians started shelling his native Chernihiv, he stopped playing music and instead became a volunteer delivering targeted humanitarian aid. Volunteering and traditional Chinese tea drinking - helps him keep his psyche in balance. But is something capable of bringing music back into his life?
In this story of a family from a small town in the front zone of the Donbas, a son is worried about his mother, who is tied fast to her small homeland. This is a story about searching for a home and a homeland in your soul and in your heart.
Once upon a night in uptown Kyiv there were a woman-orchid, a woman-cactus, a bottle of whiskey and a corpse whiout penis who went on a psycho trip.
Andrii and Nina live together in their family house. Their household is harmonious: with every-day schedule and personal hobbies. Someday unknown forces took over a part of their house. Brother and sister are continuing their life there and trying to defeat those forces and themselves.
A bright story with black humor and concise design about how life can change radically in seconds.
An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema. The film features Sergei Trimbach, Oleksandr Muratov, Vyacheslav Bihun, Raisa Prokopenko, and Peter Simms.
Ania has a little son and has no husband. To take care of the child she has to work two jobs – dubbing cartoons and... providing sexual services by phone. Ania has a regular customer. He always calls in time and never misses sessions. Once the client calls to say goodbye – he leaves and won’t be able to call anymore. The girl feels sorry, so does he. They seem to have established s good relationship. The girl suggests the last sex. Ania doesn’t have an idea that it can really be the last one for the man – not everyone returns from where he goes...
Weeks after the Russian attack, Vasyl begins to document the suffering and death in his eastern Ukrainian homeland. The police officer's helmet camera runs for months on the evacuation missions in the ambulance called "White Angel". These are close-ups of a brutal war of aggression, to which the civilian population in particular falls victim. In the documentary by Leipzig author and journalist Arndt Ginzel, rescuers and survivors have their say. Looking back, they talk about the fall of their city; Marinka no longer exists today.
When war came to their home, thousands of Ukrainian women took it upon themselves to become soldiers and lay their lives on the line for peace and freedom in their country. This feature documentary follows three of those women and the lives they never expected to lead.
About the first friends, the birth of feelings and the first loss.
The Odessa "mafia man" fakes suicide to escape from the police and flees abroad under the guise of his own widow. But on the ship on which he is fleeing, very unexpected meetings and acquaintances await him.
The documentary tells not only the history of the world-famous National Honored Academic People's Choir of Ukraine - Veryovka Ukrainian National Honoured Academic Folk Choir, which has many national and international awards, but also reveals the syncretism of Ukrainian folklore in modern music video clips of famous Ukrainian folk songs, which will help convey the sensual atmosphere of Ukrainian Ethnicity as vividly as possible. the younger generation and not only.
Death, which did not happen – it's just the beginning. Iryna miraculously survived after an accident. Facing death changed her forever. From time to time, Iryna started to see visions. They were short fragments episodes, fragmentary images. She couldn't understand it, and how does this relate to her. Over time, she learned to analyze what is happening in her head, and it started to bear fruit. Iryna began to solve the crime scenes. This is a story that is dangerously balancing on the edge of life and death, reality and dreaming, white lie and killing truth. A story that will change forever the fate of the inhabitants of a small town.
A TV version of the grand concert of Ukrainian singer Olya Polyakova, which took place in Kyiv at the Palace of Sports. The artist performed her most famous hits: "Queen of the Night", "Luli", "Polyakova Style", "Ex", "Oh, God, How It Hurts", "Love is", "First Summer", "Number 1", "Slaps", and also presented brand new songs.
During an expedition, a young photographer miscalculates the time and misses her ride back to the city. At a bus stop, she meets a young man celebrating his birthday. With curfew approaching, the two strangers are forced to spend the night together at a roadside hotel.
Roman lives a lonely life in a provincial city and works as a technician. For the first time since graduation, Liuda, his ex-classmate, comes back to town. Nobody has heard anything from her for twenty years, but Roman is set on not losing her again.
The story immerses us in the unique reality experienced by people during the war. It is extremely important to describe this time, a period of dramatic changes which is full of a huge spectrum of feelings. So we created a multiverse in which we try to capture and analyze the current reality using a method of magical realism. In this episode, the Hermit meets an explosion, and the story spins completely out of control.
Mykola got a routine life, he wants inner change and spiritual development. His wife Svitlana has her own vision of family life and is not going to change it. Will Mykola have the strength of spirit and courage to stand up for his new habits, keep the respect of his friends, and not succumb to temptations? Mykola will have many surprises along the way, to a new life.
The life of forty-six-year-old Oksana changes when her husband Tolik turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless, and nobody can turn him back.
Constantly flashing on the television screen in a variety of commercials, bachelor Valentin Ivanyuta becomes the victim of pills he advertised and becomes pregnant. And now the popular hero of the TV screen will have to talk with the woman he loved and to experience the whole range of feelings unusual for a man.
Inga has been living in Berlin for 13 years, now her mother is coming to her, fleeing Russia's war in Ukraine. About everyday life in a war that is far and near at the same time, between buying fish, learning German, dreaming of Putin's death and waking up.
After overhearing a quarrel, Witold, a new resident of the communal apartment, meets a young writer Serhiy. In no time, Serhiy becomes an extraordinary figure in Witold's life, revealing new and exciting sides of his personality. This short film is a quirky and absurd tragicomedy about artistic life and its pitfalls. Witold is based on the short story called My Nightmares by Serhiy Zhadan.
Two brothers in Donbas, younger Kolya and older Kostya, have a different view of what is going on and what each of them should do next. The tension between them is escalating, even more so because the conflict about the war is not the only one dividing them. ‘
A grey-haired music teacher from a small Ukrainian island turns into a military conductor at soldier funerals while trying to keep afloat his children ensemble.