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Two years after the war began, Ukrainian artists unite at the Burning Man festival to build a monumental sculpture from destroyed road signs. Their work reveals hidden pain and transforms trauma into a symbol of resilience and unity.
The main object in this film is an underground shelter repurposed for a kind of school that delivers pre-service training. The main character, an elderly teacher, also an archetype of Soviet ideology, does not seem to care about the contemporary political situation, instead opting to stay true to his own principles that have been inculcated into him through military service. His students couldn’t care less about the patriotism promoted in the schoolbooks from their teenage years; instead, they reserve their passions for the shooting ranges, inspired by computer games and Hollywood action movies. During the Cold war the political propaganda of the USSR and US produced a social phobia connected to the threat of nuclear war and the cult of defense. In modern Ukraine, many fallout shelters from the past have since been sealed. A few have been converted to serve new functions, adapted to different needs through individual creativity, spurred on by an overall lack of facilities.
During two months of the war in Ukraine, more than 610 children became victims in daily bombings and shelling by the russian army. 217 children were killed and more than 393 were wounded. However, the actual number of killed and wounded children cannot be determined due to active combat operations. Moreover, russian invaders continue to relocate Ukrainians from temporarily occupied territories by force. This is exactly what Nazi Germany did before. More than 500,000 Ukrainians, 121,000 of whom are children, have already been deported to russia's most depressed areas.
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.
The heroes face new challenges. Vasyl Seredyuk's ill-fated plan to reunite his family for Christmas sets off a series of adventures, including divorce and a new wild wedding. A continuation of "The Crazy Universe," which includes three films, "Crazy Wedding," and three seasons of the series "Crazy Neighbors."
When Ukrainian feminist and activist Diana Berg enters my life, my horizons expand. Through our polyamorous relationship, I rediscover Ukraine after many years in Germany. If polyamory exists, is "polyhomery" also possible?
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.
He builds pyramids, moves objects, plays on a flying saucer, and most importantly, he knows that meaning lies in the taste of pizza, a falling helicopter, and the scent of flowers. He arrives at an unexpected conclusion about the meaning of life…
The N. Ostashinsky Children's Art Studio is located in the very center of Kyiv. Its facade was once decorated with mosaics. Elmira, together with like-minded people, is trying to restore it.
A music film about Taras Fedirko, William Nought, heart, feet, skirt, and bagels. Impro vs impro, superimpo vs superimpo, oh-my-god vs aliens' idioms, sound propagating happiness vs a soldering iron in a demagog's arse.
A short documentary.
The history and present day of Kyiv's cemeteries.
A short documentary about capitalism.
Mariupol is a city with one of the richest and most diverse collections of monumental mosaics from the Soviet era in the country. Do local residents consider their mosaics to be decorations of the city/district/building/factory, and are they aware of their artistic value? Can they compare themselves today with the people depicted in the mosaics? After all, the main theme of any Soviet monumental panel was the life and work of the "typical" citizen.
A story about the bitter fate of Darusya and her parents, who were tortured by Soviet NKVD officers during the pre-war and post-war periods of Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine. The events unfold in the remote mountain village of Cheremoshne, in Bukovina.
January 2015. Fighting continues in Donbas, while in western Ukraine, a young and mysterious landowner decides to help an unfamiliar guest who is searching for his missing girlfriend. The men embark on a journey that risks ending in an unexpected outcome. Both heroes are suspicious of each other, and the situation is complicated by the fact that each of them has their own secrets, related, in particular, to the war in the east...
1944. A village in Bukovyna anxiously awaits the arrival of the Soviet army. They fear looting, violence, and executions. However, events unfold quite differently... Stalin's order to combat looting among the ranks of the "Soviet liberators" has surprisingly unexpected and dramatic consequences.
Reflections on love four days before the storming of Maidan.
The story of people through whose eyes Ukrainians and the world see the events of our time—photographers who document the war and its consequences. The project was filmed with state support. Among the film's protagonists are Stas Kozlyuk, Georgy Ivanchenko, Yefrem Lukatsky, Arseniy Gerasymenko, Danilo Pavlov, Nicoletta Stoyanova, Olga Kovaleva, Kateryna Radchenko, and Yevgen Dyaditsyn. Their work is often frightening in its truthfulness, and so it comes with a warning label for readers: "Sensitive content." The film's protagonists share their understanding of photography as a universal language that can tell the world the truth about war, and they talk about the ethical dilemmas they face in their work.
The confession of an ordinary woman who fell in love with a young musician, her daughter's boyfriend.
The outstanding Ukrainian artist Heorhii Narbut lived at the turn of two centuries and died young in 1920. He was enamored with the magazine "The World of Art," studied in Munich, and witnessed the beginning and end of the Ukrainian revolution. His illustrations for Andersen's "The Nightingale" are known to more than one generation of readers.
Concerns about coal are inevitably linked to concerns about the environment. Development of original technologies for implementation in Kuzbass, Donbas, and Karaganda.
A man is struggling with melancholy. At first, he sees a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. It gives him hope for a bright future. That ray of light is a girl. The grayness of the city beckons and seduces with its romanticism, but soon becomes an unbearable burden for a creative personality. The person adored by the protagonist turns out to be unattainable, and the city throws chains around him. Loneliness. Cigarettes. Concrete.
A girl is riding her bike to her first job interview. Suddenly, she has an accident on the road...
A social drama about the relationship between a father and son.
On the outskirts of Kyiv, twenty-floor residential buildings rise to the heavens, whilst on the ground, the improvised housing of those who migrated to the city from the provinces remains. The result is a patchwork of modern residential design and ad hoc agriculture, of six-lane residential streets and adjacent fast food outlets juxtaposed with the messy business of domestic pig farming.
A politician and businessman is brought before a heavenly court. An automatic "reverse" warning indicates an error and that he has been brought to trial prematurely.
This story is about the questions that the artist's family has been asking since the start of the full-scale invasion, but mainly about the questions she asks herself. Contradictory views make it impossible to establish a quiet dialogue at arm's length, to find one's own genetic code. It is an honest attempt at self-reflection, ending with an open question: "Why can't we speak silently?"
A green mist seeps from the earth, marking the start of an apocalypse as it spreads, killing instantly. The Poetess, unaware of the danger, struggles with creative burnout and decides to quit poetry. As the gas approaches their 502nd-floor apartment, it becomes a refuge for the Neighbor, the Cat, the best Friend, and the Burgomaster. They grapple with the catastrophe’s causes, their relationships, and art’s significance as the gas rises.
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.
A Ukrainian documentary.
After completing his higher education, Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722-1794) traveled throughout Europe and learned several foreign languages. From the early 1770s, he led a nomadic lifestyle. In his later years, he stayed with one of his students. It is said that shortly before his death, Skovoroda began digging a hole, saying that it would be his grave. He also asked for the following words to be written on his tombstone: "The world pursued me, but did not catch me."
The story of two young lovers who go on a trip to the countryside. But they failed to pass the test of respect for each other, and each believed that their own understanding of nature and the essence of human relationships was more important. This is a story about how two close people, a girl and a boy, went their separate ways.
An ordinary young woman runs away from the war in Ukraine and tries to find her place and adapt in the Venise, but a terrible post-war trauma prevents the heroine from realizing her dream to be a famous actress and even removing her human identity...
A long-awaited letter from the war front arrives in the hands of an elderly man...
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.
He is a criminal, a thief. He is being pursued by the police. In the dump, in the snow, when he comes across a thrown newborn, he will have the choice - to save the baby or himself ...
Both Ukrainian military personnel and volunteers from around the world are fighting on Ukraine's side. One such volunteer unit is the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC). Who are they, what are they fighting for, who do they want in their ranks, how do they see Russia after Ukraine's victory, and why does the Kremlin fear them?
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.
The story of how kindness and humane treatment of homeless children can give them a chance for a better life.
Life of the vandal Danil in 26 arborglyphs (graffiti on the bark of trees).
On March 4, 2022, the Russian troops occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The day before they entered its satellite town, Enerhodar, and attacked resisting civilians who barricaded the road to the nuclear power plant. Founded in the early 1970s, Enerhodar (‘the energy gift’) was meant to serve the thermal power station and the nuclear power plant. Its construction was part of the Soviet modernist project championing industrialization, urban growth and new nuclear technologies. After its occupation, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was turned into a time bomb. The infrastructure of ‘peaceful atom’ was weaponized and used as a means of nuclear blackmail. In a grim twist, the colonial Soviet ambition to control the forces of nature culminated in Russian war atrocities and ecocide of the planetary scale.
Three-part documentary film by and about TNMK, Ukraine's revolutionary hip-hop group.
Ethnic music film for the enchanting compositions "Good Night" and "Yagudki" by the famous ethnic band DakhaBrakha.
“97” is a performative art film based on a same-titled poem, combining monologue and physical theatre. It creates a vulnerable space for reflection and release, confronting the trauma of witnessing death and the guilt and helplessness that follow. The metaphor of dirt and cleanness is used to explore the uncontrollability of death, war, and love.
When a friend needs help from another timeframe and spacetime, young lighthouse keeper Aisling Fletch must help to find the light even in the darkest times.
A poetic reflection on memory, loss, and the search for home, the film explores the line between past and present, often triggered by ordinary objects. A true story of a sisterly bond changed forever and a home chosen despite costs.
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.
Agatha visits the train station to meet her husband returning from the front, but the only person she finds there is an injured soldier with no one to greet him. He has just two hours before his return train and a goal he cannot achieve without the help of a random stranger.
A creative profile of the small Ukrainian city Mirgorod and its people. A peaceful place in a country at war.
A granddaughter experiencing the invasion of Ukraine reflects about past generations, who were constantly going through deportations, different forms of wars and genocides.
Within the microscopic realm of a leaf, Water embarks on an improbable love story with Chloroplast with the duo struggle to overcome their differences. Battling to unify it triggers a transformative journey for the pair, and others around them.
About a young poet, a 6th grade student of Makiivka Secondary School No. 30 (Donetsk Oblast), Oleksandr Kachur, who won the main UNESCO Golden Pegasus prize in 1991 at the International Contest of Beginning Poets.
Andriy and Alina, two guardian angels, arrive on Earth to bring two destined lovers together for a great purpose. But when they meet Roma and Yulia, the angels wonder: can true love be forced? And what happens when they decide to let it grow naturally?
In the heart of Kyiv, Hena, a charming daydreamer, falls for a mysterious girl he barely saw on a crowded bus. Armed with only a few clues, he embarks on a comical, bar-hopping adventure with his best friend to find her. But will Hena’s determination to chase love be enough to make their paths cross again?
“Chervona Ruta is the first youth festival of Ukrainian song. In September 1989, it made its debut in Chernivtsi, the hometown of the famous singer and composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk. At that time, dozens of Ukrainian bands made a name for themselves, and both popular and rock music was performed. At Chervona Ruta-1989, despite the close attention of the Soviet secret services, the flags of Ukraine were constantly raised and the Ukrainian anthem was played. The eyewitnesses tell how it was. The stars will share their memories of the first Chervona Ruta, the mood of Ukrainians, and their feelings of the beginning of a new era in Ukrainian music.
It is said that when changes take place in society, the sexual sphere is the most resistant to them. It is not customary to talk about sex. But the words we use (or keep silent) reveal and shape our attitude to this process. As well as to our body and our own sexuality. And it affects the rest of our lives. At the same time, each story reflects the social, political, gender, educational and other problems of a particular society.
In 2022, a neighborhood of Northern Saltivka in Kharkiv has become the frontier of the Russian invasion and has suffered significant destruction. A walk through the "ghost district" forging ahead of coexistence of past and present, outward and inward landscapes, facts and recollections. Voiceover recites the artist’s memories of places of his childhood and youth that no longer exist.
What is it like to live in a war for two years? Not the one from the news, but the real one? What is the life of soldiers on the front lines, people in cities and villages? What place do the Ukrainian Bulgarians occupy in the struggle? How does the heart of Ukraine beat? The first letter from the war will let you feel her heartbeat.