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A wordless parable. A man finds an angel with a broken wing in the desert, rescues him, and puts him in a cage. The man begins to show off the angel, earning money from it. The angel breaks free and disappears. The man begins to do his usual work, occasionally feeling the angel's presence above him.
About the performances, backstage life, theater actors and their fans. One group performed every evening. A full hall gathered day after day, and a little sad beetle, who loved the leading actor, was among the many spectators. Can she dare to approach him, handing her bouquet?
The three phases of the moon are echoed by stages of closeness and estrangement.
The film captures suspension performances in a Kharkiv nightclub, a subculture involving body suspension through piercings. Participants, often teenagers interested in heavy music and body art, use this practice as a protest against societal norms and a form of youth radicalism. Unlike political activism, it symbolizes a desire to escape social ties through pain. Five years later, Ukraine’s war shifted pain’s symbolism from escape to a new normality, as many young people joined military and volunteer efforts.
A documentary feature film about Oles Uljanenko, an author and cult figure of Ukrainian post-Soviet culture. His works were banned by Ukrainian authorities having judged them as pornographic and as ones that should be destroyed.
Based on stories by Mykhailo Mohylanskyi. The traditional love triangle—husband, wife, and a third party who appears unexpectedly—ends with an unexpected finale.
An abandoned house on the seacoast near Mariupol, an overcast sky and a camera shared by three friends.
In a creepy meatball restaurant, Hannah, a nervous foodie, must crush her interview for her dream job as a food critic. While the interview happens, a sinister force brews from within the chilling establishment.
Tamu, karate black belt returned to his hometown, with the aim to open a karate school. Someone Sedoy, who has opened an existing school in the city, helps Tamu in achieving his objectives, requiring instead the subordination to it.
The short film is based on events surrounding a 1977 mining accident in the Donbas region that ultimately led to the mine’s closure. In the film, locals, artists, and curators traverse the surface, paralleling one of the underground routes of the Novator mine. The procession ends at the monument to the dead miners, which is located just above the site of the underground accident that led to the death of the workers. Participants walk across the postindustrial landscape of Donbas, over the plowed fields, by bushes and courtyards, connecting the ground and the underground spaces through the choreography of their bodies.
One day, a stranger sits down next to a homeless man named Grigory and offers to give him back his apartment, his job, and his social standing in exchange for one small favor. Grigory doesn’t realize that from that moment on, no matter what he does, his fate is sealed, and he’s nothing but a pawn in someone else’s game.
The story of 21 people who came together during the Russian occupation. They survived the horrors of war in a small basement and managed to escape from the hell of Hostomel.
Retired and active (at the time of filming) high-ranking officials of Ukraine's security forces talk about the turning point of the Orange Revolution and analyze the reasons for the security forces' disobedience. Among them are: Commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksandr Kikhtenko, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Petruk, Head of Military Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine Vitaliy Romanchenko, Deputy Head of Military Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Mykola Melnyk. On the other hand, top-level Ukrainian politicians reveal unknown, often sensational facts about the negotiations between the authorities and the opposition: President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn, and others.
A lonely man works as a model for students studying fine arts. He meets his love in the person of a young student at the end of his life.
While studying in Bruxelles, Daryna Mamaisur is caught up in the conflict tearing through her country. She questions the way in which to speak about it, at a distance, while cinema seems the “least appropriate” means.
The guy invites the girl to go camping, she doesn't want to and leaves him. Well, then - "the situation is like this"...
Provincial wedding. Seems like happiness is just around the corner. But when the sun sets the happiness is floating by.
When the full-scale invasion begins, Kira can't get away from her internal fever - she has to go to the frontline. She is 28 and she is a veterinarian, so it is just natural for her to become a paramedic. But there is one "but" - her twelve-year-old son, Vitia, whom Kira is raising alone. So the first question is: with whom to leave the child? The second question is whether Kira can really leave her son? She has been a mother most of her life. She has always protected her son herself, always been there for him. Maybe it's time to protect something else?
The main character is a minister who is in a very difficult life situation. He was confused. A small child has his own experiences. A person who has reached the appropriate level lives in his world. But we are all very similar. Despite all that is happening to us, there are still some basic values, based on which, we will be able to exist harmoniously in this world.
Two young Ukrainian volunteers are captured by the Reds during the Soviet-Ukrainian war, exploring themes of loyalty and moral ambiguity amidst the backdrop of early twentieth-century Ukraine.
Poetic interpretation of the russian war against Ukraine.
A documentary film by Georgiy Gongadze made in 1993. He dedicated this film to Ukrainians - members of the UNA-UNSO who died in Georgia during the war in Abkhazia.
The story of Michelle - a young transgender girl with big hopes and dreams. We follow her as she returns home to family in rural Ukraine from the big city.
The story of two boys, best friends, who are both madly in love with a beauty of the village. This love is a big challenge for their friendship. What is more, they can no longer withstand the third competitor. A young man in a military uniform appears (the story is set in the postwar period). He immediately “gets down to business” in the hayloft. The two losers decide to commit suicide and thus punish the treacherous Nuska.
The film is about one of the biggest tragedies of the Ukrainian people - the Holodomor of 1932-33.
This video work was filmed on a coast of the Black Sea and shows a static horizon dotted with figures of fishermen. The calm surface of the image is periodically punctured by scenes of jellyfish splattering on the ground. The association with the sound of bombs dropping is achieved with recordings of frequencies produced by a jet plane. The video conveys the unsteadiness and relativity of calmness – how quickly and easily military aggression can escalate in the modern world. This work was made in response to the conflict between Georgia, Abkhazia and Russia that took place 6 years before the invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.
The third film in the series of documentaries "The Winter that Changed Us". The film clearly shows the rapid pace of radicalization of society.
A docufiction about professional choristers singing sacred songs in the local opera. Lamentation of the ukrainian working class on-stage and behind.
Between the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop. Five years after graduation from university, the main characters return to see themselves from the side and try to catch what is happening between the frames. The story is told by ex-students while they are watching behind-the-scenes archives of their student performance The Cabaret and reflecting upon the years that have passed. In the center of the story stands a teacher as a life-turning figure for each of the characters.
Residents of Mariupol talk about looting in shops during the siege and capture of the city by russian troops in March 2022.
Galya does not give a shit about the Great War of Russia against Ukraine. The war is a thousand kilometers away from her village, lost in the middle of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. A small village, a tiny church, microscopic people with their huge problems.
A fictional story with elements of humor, which introduces the viewer to a rather unusual version of the origin of the well-known fact. Cutting sausage at an angle - this is what we are talking about. Why is everyone used to cutting it just one way or another?
This film is a fresco pictured on a background of an abandoned port-town. A taxi-driver falls in love with a young lady, passenger in his car. He makes a decision to marry her and entices her to his house. The lady is scared, she tries to escape, but the taxi-driver locks her up in the bathroom and starts getting ready to the wedding... The film is about a real person from a Ukrainian province who cannot express his own feelings in a common way. He was brought up seeing psychological violence, man's domination over a woman. And even in the situation when he sincerely wants to keep the lady from danger and propose his love and faithfulness, he cannot use any other methods but violence. The script is based on real facts. The characters in the film are real residents of the town Kherson located in the South of Ukraine who shared stories from their lives and brought them to the screen. The film recieved the Main prize at Film festival "Kinoshok" from the Jury of Russian Producers.
People in a Southern Ukrainian city come out to commemorate an important national holiday. Old and new symbols mix in their quest for identity and common understanding. Despite living on neighboring streets, the distance between them is growing. This is a portrait of people who demonstrated on the main square of a city in a country to which war has returned. The film was shot on Victory day on May 9th in Mykolaiv. The flagship city of Russia’s Imperial and Soviet shipbuilding, the city which during Soviet times was considered completely pro-Russian, suddenly reveals its Ukrainian essence. Discussions, various symbols, the battle between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Soviet, red poppies and St. George’s ribbon… In its search for a new self and place in modern day Ukraine, it hurdles itself from one extreme to another.
We hear readings from Dovzhenko's diary and hear how the great suffering of the Ukrainian people caused him to move away from beauty for it's own sake to the search for truth, expressed in his two harrowing wartime documentaries. Stalin's 1944 banning of Dovzhenko's Ukraine in Flames screenplay and his subsequent exile to Moscow affected him greatly.
Adaptation of the cult Ukrainian comic book about the alternative history of Ukraine after it's independence in 1918.
The documentary follows the story of Iryna's family (name changed), who fled Russian occupation to save her son from possible conscription. Before leaving, representatives of the occupation authorities pressured her to enroll her children in a local school, threatening to send them to an orphanage if she didn't. Another key figure in the investigation, Oksana (name changed), was promised a holiday in Crimea on the Black Sea coast by the occupying authorities. Instead, she was taken to a military training camp in Russia — part of a program established under Putin's initiative after 2022. At the camp, Oksana was taught to dig trenches, operate drones, and carry out tasks under the supervision of Russian military instructors, who in some cases fought in Russia's war against Ukraine.
A story of lost things and lost people.
Factory lathe operator Kirill, who came to work after a night of drinking, is looking for a way to cure his hangover. But all his efforts are in vain, so Kirill uses an accident at work to his advantage...
Real-life couples – both LGBT and heterosexual, celebrity and not – come together to take part in a campaign for marriage equality in Ukraine. We see the short film they have created playing with reversed reality, as well as hold real-life conversations with the couples in this documentary. Check out what pop star Volodymyr Dantes and his partner Dasha Katsurina, TV host Anatoliy Yerema and his partner Mykola Shestakovskyi, YouTube blogger Ihor Donskikh, Mariupol activist and founder of the art platform Tu Diana Berg and many others have to say.
Selected works of Ukrainian queer artist AntiGonna, the pioneer of post-pornographic art in Ukraine.
A story about a girl during the war who could not have been a child, but she is hiding from bombs in a ruined house, who never got to know her culture and all the beauty of the world. Where her soul and body early takes away death in the war.
A "direct cinema" documentary that explores the art and inner workings of the major art institution in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two special exhibitions - one dedicated to the Ukrainian baroque and another one to a prominent avant-garde artist - are the two defining events in the film's narrative.
A person suffering from cerebral palsy loses his home and all means of subsistence. Only extraordinary strength of will and perseverance can help the hero not just to survive, but to LIVE.
In a world with no humans, what will you do when you meet one?
A small page from the life of the brilliant actor Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka, captured on video during his stay in Lviv while on tour.
In a small Ukrainian village in the 1830s, a youthful Kateryna leaves her fioncee Myron for Ivan, a soldier in the Russian imperial army, who promises to make her his wife after returning from his draft in the Russo-Ottoman War. However, he never returns and Kateryna soon grows desperate.
With hours of footage captured by Ukrainian filmmakers a collaboration to tell their story was initiated. This is the story about civilians facing death during wartime. And with a conversation between a son in Berlin and his parents still in Kyiv, the film portrayed the dilemma of how to survive the distance to war without loosing hope - for those who stayed, those who left and those who never returned.
Oleh "Simon" Krisenko is a guy from Mykolaiv who went to war in 2014. In civilian life, he was an actor and played in a children's theater. In 2014, when the war started, he immediately joined a volunteer battalion. We filmed Simon during his service in the regiment in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Together with other defenders of Mariupol, he ended up at Azovstal and then in captivity. In May 2023, Simon returned home after a year in Russian captivity. He is currently undergoing rehabilitation. He is actively involved in campaigns and support for the families of prisoners and wounded.
Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy at a distance of the war, told via the voice messages of a foreign correspondent in a front-line city.
The story of how the teacher went to the literary festival in the resort town of Truskavets. But there, various funny situations arise with the heroes, and in general they end up at a completely different festival. This trip radically changed the life of the main character.
"Thus they will sing" is a movie-collage that interweaves human experiences, soromitski (shaming) songs and the flow of modern life. Soromnitski (shaming) songs are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (evening parties), and feasts. Although they were quite shameful to sing in everyday life, they were broadcasting the man and woman's behavior patterns. The tradition of creating the spivankas (these songs) still exists. Ostap Bohoslovets from Nadvirna town re-analyses the modern world of youth in his own spivankas
For the first time, Slava spends a day with her father, Roman, who is home on leave from the war. They go to return an expensive carpet he bought for her, and Slava must navigate the distance that eight years of service has created between them.
A film about the mass extermination of people by the Nazis in the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. Former prisoners of the camp are interviewed. The camp orchestra plays. Photos from the Great Patriotic War and documentary footage about neo-fascism are used.
An almost detective story about how a candidate for judge of the new Supreme Court tries to overcome the public's conclusion about his dishonesty.
A satire on a collective hysteria around plastic. It's created as a parody of a horror movie where plastic plays the role of evil. The character of sexy and blonde doll Garbie (Garbage+Barbie) lost her way in the haunted forest. Plastic bags emerge from the darkness like ghosts; toothbrushes, straws and bottles grow instead of trees, and a variety of other horror cliches are waiting for her ahead.
Three girls make a seance to call the spirit of a famous romantic lover. They receive the ghost of Marquis de Sade, the inventor of Sadism, who tortures them one by one!