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Using the example of the village of Mali Huliaky in the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region, the film examines the decline of the Ukrainian village. Residents of the village Stepaniia and Mykola Debalchuky talk about the Holodomor of 1932–1933.
“Rotation” is a therapeutic hypnosis ritual experienced by a young Ukrainian woman who shifted from civilian life to military service. She needs support to adapt to the displaced reality she now lives in.
After losing their mother to the war, Vira is left alone with her brother Roma and gradually takes on the role of his caregiver. She wants to take him abroad, but when she brings it up, they speak the truth to each other for the first time.
The stories of two elderly women and Father Timon, who share unique stories from the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Sedniv, Chernihiv region.
Ukrainian woman tries to preserve a sense of normalcy while living under constant threat of Russian missile strikes. A series of short stories about everyday resilience amidst war.
About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.
A short documentary about capitalism.
Stories about professional Paralympic athletes, veterans who play sports, and ordinary people with disabilities. About how these people go through life and, thanks to sports, become a little happier, transform themselves, and feel more confident.
The documentary in the format of a film chronicle reproduces the evacuation route from the bombed-out town of Pivnichne, on the border line of the "gray zone", through cities of Toretsk, Myrnograd, and Pokrovsk to the city of Dnipro, the temporary (and historical) center of cultural life of the industrial East. Gradually moving away from the front line, we observe how the life modus and the mood of the cities change.
A simple, good man dies—collective farm driver Stepan Derevianko. With him, an entire poetic world dies. But the life he left behind, with his wife and young daughter, goes on. Based on the novel of the same name by Hryhorii Tiutiunnyk.
The entire population of Crimean Tatars was deported en masse to remote parts of the Soviet Union in May 1944. The film tells the story of the difficulties and hopes of a large family that returned to their homeland half a century later.
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.
The year is 2022, during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All Ukrainians are united by one thing: hatred of the war, the desire for victory, and love for their homeland. The film is an intimate video diary of a director who, like six million other Ukrainians, left the country, but whose heart and soul remain in Ukraine.
Larisa, burdened with children and debts, struggled to find work. Arkady, her husband’s friend, offered her a job cooking for his office. Arkady and his boss, Dima, became her regular customers, charmed by her cooking and secret allure. Unbeknownst to Larisa, Arkady paid off her debts, and she became Dima’s mistress, believing in his noble intentions.
The residents of a remote village decided to stage a play based on Kotlyarevsky's "Aeneid" on their own. The initiator of this unusual undertaking was Kolot, an energetic and creative young man from the village. He had previously been dismissed from the police force, but now he had plenty of free time. Having gathered a group of like-minded friends and colorful villagers, he saw the project through to completion, and on the eve of the premiere, he decided to show the play to his former colleagues in the police force. Who could have imagined the strange events that would follow!
The film raises two painful issues that are consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: missing persons and prisoners of war. These issues are intertwined, yet they have many different aspects.
Three individuals seek help from a psychiatrist: a young director struggling to get his film made, a lonely woman unhappy with her life, and an older woman unable to sleep without art books. The psychiatrist’s advice leads them to success and happiness. However, the psychiatrist questions his own happiness and dreams. Years later, he reveals to the now-famous director Garin that he always wanted to be an actor. Garin offers to help his former doctor pursue his dream.
A painter, consumed by the drug Morpheus, creates his greatest masterpiece - but in doing so, loses the boundary between life, art, and death.
In the still hours of Kharkiv's curfewed nights, a quiet resilience hums through its empty streets. The short film captures people who work under the cover of darkness, navigating both routine and risk as Russia often attacks when residents try to sleep. Those who stay awake to work do so for the city's survival. The film explores how Ukraine's second-largest city has transformed because of war, its collective hope that dawn will arrive quietly, and the human need to carry on.
Commission work by the Ukrainian music group DZ'OB for the live performances. Drawings were made on paper using guache colors.
On the eve of their wedding, a mature couple is waiting for the arrival of their adult children from previous marriages. But the reality is not what it seems.
The film consists of 14 fragments, which focus on intersections of dramatic events in the history of Ukraine in 2014-2016, and specifically in the history of the city of Mariupol, and personal experiences of the filmmaker. The beginning. Water. Music. Jokes. Monuments. Events. Buenos Aires. A tree. Talking to God. Film. A trap for nearly everyone. Walls of Joy. All I think is fire. The end.
Once upon a time, there were two best friends, Kotyk (Kitty) and Pesyk (Doggie). They loved watching cartoons together and eating cereal with milk. Until one day, their house was flooded.
Yulia and Natalia are two actresses from Kyiv who have escaped the war. Since their arrival in Bologna, Italy, they have been struggling trying to rebuild their lives. News breaks: in Ukraine, theatres, closed due to the conflict, are reopening. This makes them decide to embark on a return journey to question their future.
A creative profile of the small Ukrainian city Mirgorod and its people. A peaceful place in a country at war.
The revolution on Kyiv‘s Maidan as a close-up of the city without any broader perspective. Recycled amateur footage from the internet offers an ironic commentary on the spectacular narratives by which the media described events in Ukraine at the turn of the year. Randomly selected and shown out of context, the various sequences break down the events into individual, slow-motion fragments before reassembling them in an emotional collage of incomprehensible unrest and random moments on the street.
A short meditation on youth and history shot in Kyiv.
A documentary tells the story of how, in January 2023, young people from all over Ukraine brought Christmas caroling to the Slobozhanshchyna region (northeastern Ukraine). These young men and women created a festive holiday atmosphere for the residents of newly liberated communities who had endured occupation and the horrors of Russian terror.
In Kyiv, the editorial staff of ELLE Ukraine, continue to publish the famous fashion and beauty magazine despite the war surrounding them.
A film about civil defense to protect the population in extreme and emergency man-made and natural situations. Footage from a newsreel was used, showing the training of employees of civil defense enterprises in wartime conditions, the elimination of the consequences of radioactive contamination after the accident at the Chornobyl NPP. Interviews are given by the Deputy Chief of Civil Defense of the USSR, Lieutenant-General M.M. Dolgin, and Lieutenant-General M.S. Bondarchuk.
A documentary about the psychological problems women face after giving birth.
The photographer intends to give up his profession and join the army as a volunteer on the front lines. In the last days in the peaceful town, he plans to spend time at a bar with his comrade, but all plans suddenly change when he encounters a young woman.
A young and disillusioned British diplomat abandons his diplomatic career, spends his own money, and risks his very life on a journey of faith and war in Ukraine. A country riven in pieces by indescribable events, sometimes called: an EU inspired and US -organised revolution, a Russian invasion, a civil war, a war of lies and misinformation, a war where thousands of people have died, and which created over a million refugees, and a war at the heart of Christendom which rips the very geopolitical foundations of Europe to shreds.
Deployments for combat missions for Apache, a tank commander, is a daily routine task. But this time he needs to do a mission with a gunner who is deploying to the confrontation line for the first time. A simple story about the complex work of the tank operators of the 36th Rear Admiral Mykhailo Bilynskyi Separate Marine Brigade - about equipping the tank, preparing the crew, and about the baptism by fire for a gunner who was a civilian just recently.
Together with the granddaughter of the repressed Ukrainian ethnographer Anton Onishchuk, the project team is uncovering the facts surrounding his death. With the help of forensic experts, the project created a hypothetical portrait of Hetman Ivan Mazepa and recreated the appearance of Prince Yaroslav the Wise's wife, Ingerda.
Nadia is a 19-year-old resident of Kyiv. Her father was a soldier who died a year ago during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This morning, Nadia wakes up to the sound of an air raid siren. She thinks about her peaceful past and remembers a fairy tale her father used to tell her when she was a child. The story always helped calm her down when she was afraid of the dark. However, Nadia finds herself trapped in a powerless elevator and forced to confront her destiny during the most difficult time of her life.
In wartime Kyiv during winter, Marina, a female detective, and her IT partner search for missing people. This time, a little girl has vanished, and Marina must navigate a quest set up by an unknown figure. This is a detective and mystical story about childhood lost in war.
An attempt by the director to delve into the nature of sexuality and relationships with her friend in order to understand what their experience together was for them.
Musician Illia Sotnyk wakes up in a field. He was beaten and robbed. His precious violin is stolen. He tries to remember what happened yesterday.
A young guy named Dan, wakes up in a dark room, and a hologram appears before him, displaying video fragments of memories from his life.
A documentary essay-video diary of the film's author's feelings, in which she documented her emotional states during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park is a nature reserve on the Black Sea. It’s the nursery for fish and dolphins, kingdom of birds, a land of rare plants and endangered animals. For many years, park protectors led by Ivan Rusev and Iryna Vykhrystiuk have been fighting for the preservation of the Lagoons.
A young pastor encounters a devil while investigating a fuss around a parked car.
Documentary about Vadym Yakovych Boyko, Ukrainian writer, novelist, prisoner of Auschwitz.
On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. A bomb was detonated by accident and 334 hostages were killed. 172 of them were children. The Boys of Beslan is not so much about the slaughter of innocents, but rather the spirit and resiliency of youth, embodied in the shining faces of young survivors Kazik and Asik Aliev, twin brothers. For even as they speak so sadly of the horror the witnessed that dark day in September, there is still the twinkle of hope in their eyes.
The film is about a large family whose relationships are regulated by the father, a man who is honest but sometimes too direct.
A portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.
To rejoice or to suffer, to live or to die, to go mad or to be happy? And what will the Voice tell you?
Three female friends throw a party with an unexpected ending. The title is a reference to the Kyiv metro station Ipodrom, named after Kyiv's horse racetrack and equestrian park, which is located a short distance from the station.
This is a poetic story about one day of life in an abandoned country estate, about finding oneself, about preserving the small history of an ordinary Ukrainian family.
The famous Ukrainian actress Larysa Kadochnikova restored her self-portrait and found out about herself. And not only.
Live at Festival Graspop 2019
The Open Access documentary is an anthology film made up of five separate documentaries that take place after the Ukrainian Parliament approves a law on "Access to public information." The film captures their struggles as public activists.
The story weaves together memories and accounts from that period into a single 24-hour shift, during which a naïve young man confronts the brutal realities of the post-Soviet apocalypse, comes under the sway of his senior colleagues, and ultimately crosses the line of humanity. The film is based on the author’s real experience working as a paramedic with the psychiatric emergency response team in Dnipro in the early 2000s.
Lydia is an inveterate habitant of the Moldavian village, who is incredibly concerned about the opinions of others. When her husband dies, she wants to bury him following all the rules. A kind-hearted neighbor, Clara, reminds her of an old tradition – pomana, gifts in honor of the deceased. Lydia is shocked that she forgot about it so much, that her husband’s death fades into the background. But even though the family tries to reach out to Lydia, she is only concerned about what people will think about her.
A young couple wants to leave the country. The girl's parents have divorced long ago. They mind her relationship with the young guy. The guy is spied upon. In spite of all that, the girl is trying to find the way out.
The protagonist of the film is time in a provincial town, which is not measured in minutes, hours or days, but in certain events.
A documentary film that interweaves the lives of two main characters: Sergey and Anna. Sergey is an entrepreneur who provides military tours to foreigners. His story is about the rise of his small empire, from a small company made with the help of friends to a huge money machine that becomes the most successful firm for extreme tourism in Ukraine. Anna is a volunteer who had to escape from Donetsk (her hometown) at the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. She teaches art and games to children and often travels to Donbas to provide them dresses and toys. This life gives her meaning and fulfillment, but after meeting Alex on a night train, she falls in love with him and abandons her ideals. Unfortunately, Alex leaves her when she gets pregnant with his baby. She's alone in Kyiv with no money and no place to live, facing an uncertain fate. Will their paths cross? What do their stories tell us about modern Ukraine?