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Dnipro, 17:20. A barista teacher meets a train and determines which of its passengers will end up on the operating table, which will go to a shared house on the left bank, and which will go to a social rehabilitation centre. Why does she decide this?
A successful psychologist has a meeting with a client who brings turmoil into her life.
A girl, bruised and battered, prepares dinner for her husband…
Oksana fights a serious illness with determination and decides to start a foundation to help others facing the same condition.
Two girls try to define the shape of something that doesn’t exist…
A short film about addictions.
A film chronicle of Sievierodonetsk (Siverskodonetsk), Ukraine.
An experimental film.
An experimental film.
There is a great distance between Lida and her mother, both physically and mentally, they live separately and communicate only through a laptop screen. But in order to build a personal life, Lida must first reconnect this bond, and find how to change the old patterns.
This documentary reveals the world of the Odesa underground scene from 2008 to 2011. The Norma Gallery exhibited artists who broke with conventional ideas about art: absurd, provocative, but always with irony and humor. Through interviews and archival materials, the film recreates the atmosphere of freedom and experimentation that shaped the artistic environment of Odesa.
A small circus animal escapes from the abuse of a circus trainer to freedom. It falls into the hands of a forester named Zhmenya.
Have you ever wondered what gives you strength? This animation is a beautiful story about a little Hedgehog who grows tired of the monotony and "greyness" of life.
A film observing the mode of life and everyday existence of the Polissia countrymen, whose survival depends on the cranberry crop in the marsh. Cranberries here are considered on a par with bread.
The image of the sacrificial Mother against the backdrop of the cruelty of the world.
What would the official history be if events could be edited differently? What would our everyday life be like if we could create new experiences instead of recreating existing ones? We need to make a collage of Utopias out of the world to bring back the magic.
A short educational film.
A short documentary.
A short documentary criticising Russian colonialism.
Ukraine in 1917-1918. Insightful lines from the "Diary" belonging to writer and politician Volodymyr Vynnychenko, footage from newsreels.
The characters in the film try to understand the bioenergetic and informational influence of works of art on the psychological state of the viewer and listener. Scientists, psychologists, psychotherapists, a composer, and an artist seek answers to the question: why do some works depress, others pacify, and still others evoke feelings of joy? Is it possible to use this to treat people?
A fantastic story about the death of a young woman.
.Based on the novel by Valerii Shevchuk, this film is about loyalty to the brotherhood and ideals of goodness.
The film reveals the dark history of totalitarian repressions during the late 1930s, focusing on a peculiar artifact: hedgehog cakes. According to speculative theories, these hedgehog cakes, named after the notorious Soviet people's commissar Nikolai Yezhov (with "yezh" meaning "hedgehog" in Russian), were not just treats but served as secret signals of inescapable danger, marking recipients for possible exile to Siberian camps or even death.
An undercover police officer walks the line between duty and desire while gathering video evidence at a private sex party.
A satirical fantasy about political life during the time of Haykhan Bey, with parallels to present-day Ukraine. Based on Vladimir Samoilov's play.
Mia notices a ladybug in the hair of an attractive boy. Mia's offer to remove the insect leads to a conversation, which quickly results in an invitation to have coffee at a small café. When Mia meets another attractive guy on the subway and offers to remove a ladybug from his hair, it becomes clear that this is no coincidence.
First ladies come and go, but the last ladies continue to bear the cross of their homeland. Those who endure great trials cannot be called "little people."
Sazon, a hooligan from Donetsk, has to face a difficult choice. His life changes dramatically after he flees to Vinnytsia, where he meets Louise, a patriotic, desperate, and compassionate girl who helps the boy find himself and get on the right track. But will his new acquaintance be able to change the terrible future of the boy, who has fallen into the hands of separatists?
A young man named Roma arrives in the city and settles in with Dasha, an acquaintance of his mother. Dasha is a single mother who works constantly, and her 12-year-old son Amin spends most of his time living with his grandparents. Roma tries to find a reason to make love to Dasha.
Anna and Ivan are trying to build a relationship, but Anna's ex-husbands interfere in their lives. Only she knows about their existence, only she can see them, and only she has the power to get rid of them. Will Anna dare to say goodbye to her past in the name of the present?
Three parts explore themes of life, birth, and the impact of the Chornobyl disaster. The first part features the artist’s pregnant body adorned with paintings and 3D figures, symbolizing the Ukrainian pysanka and the civilizational field of Earth. The second part juxtaposes footage of a newborn with ultrasound images of the unborn child. The third part imagines twenty years post-Chornobyl, depicting twins with genetic abnormalities, symbolizing societal and genetic issues resulting from the disaster, as they walk hand in hand towards an approaching tram.
The film consists of women's voices—the voices of miners' wives. Their confessions lead us through the streets of the small town of Chervonopartizansk, located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Who are you? How do you see yourself? Kaya is 27. What does the life of a fragile girl consist of when she is a poet and a rebel?
For the sake of their children and in pursuit of justice, residents and activists of what was once a paradise, now threatened by an industrial monster growing up next to their homes, are exposing the state in the first Ukrainian environmental case in the European Court of Human Rights.
Anton is an ordinary guy from Kryvyi Rih who plays computer games, listens to rap music, and works as an IT engineer. But after the Revolution of Dignity, he began fighting against the corrupt local authorities, which are still dominated by representatives of the regime of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and Soviet methods of governance. Anton strives to make Kryvyi Rih a better place to live, but the system retaliates with smear campaigns and lawsuits against him. One of the pressing issues for Anton is to improve the local public transport system in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's longest city. A city where you are unlikely to get anywhere by public transport after 8 p.m.
A film about the events in Donetsk in the spring of 2014 through the eyes of a teenager who supported the separatists.
Film adaptation of the ancient Greek myth "Echo and Narcissus".
A short film about the director’s grandma.
What if a young, ambitious director wants to remake Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece? He'll have to find himself an actress and muse! But how easy is that half a century after the original was released?
An uncle persuades his nephew to rob a bank. The young man resists in every way possible, but eventually gives in to his relative's pressure. In honor of the upcoming robbery, they throw a lavish banquet, which everyone from the police to the press finds out about.
A long time ago, when she was still young, the heroine left her village and now lives in a noisy big city. From time to time, her memory takes her back to those distant days when she was happy. But that was so long ago, and was it really?
A story about how ephemeral human well-being is and how only one step separates a judge from the role of a defendant.
The amazing, exquisite Baroque style came to Ukraine in the mid-17th century, during the era of liberation wars and the awakening of national consciousness. Ukraine gave the world its own version of Baroque, enriching it with traditions of folk art and architecture. The film shows only the Kyiv style of Ukrainian Baroque, preserved and destroyed architectural masterpieces. Among them are the creations of Rastrelli and Grigorovich-Barsky.
Two great prophets of Russia: Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Lenin, their reflections on socialism, good and evil, and the purpose of human beings in this world.
Part 1. In 1873, the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Literary Society was founded in Lviv to promote the nation and preserve its language and culture. This is the story of its history from 1873 to 1914. Part 2. The period between the two world wars can hardly be called favorable for the development of Ukrainian science and culture, the only center of which remained the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society. However, with the arrival of Soviet power in Lviv, it was banned. Part 3. Fifty years after the ban, the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society resumed its activities in Ukraine. The indestructible brotherhood of intellect and conscience returned to its homeland.
Eyewitnesses to the Holodomor famine of 1932–33 recount the terrible tragedy they experienced as children.
Various characters from the modern "Dance of Death" head to the airport to embark on their final journey. A bizarre dance with death rises above the clouds...
An extraordinary journey as passengers on the legendary tram No. 5, which runs from Odesa's entertainment district and Arcadia beach to the end of the line at the tram depot. It is a journey during which the boundary between reality and the world of dreams is magically blurred...
While baking bread, 95-year-old Lydia recalls her difficult youth: she reveals the secrets of her life and tells how she survived the greatest famine in Europe, the Holodomor.
"I had a family. Now I am alone." What about the older women in the country? The director lets more or less elderly ladies have their say, who even in old age are still fighting hard for their income: flower vendors, cleaners, beggars. Intimate observations and encounters that reveal what was obviously unspoken as well as injuries and privations. Get a child, do your duty, lose respect: A search for the answer to the apparently forbidden female happiness.
About the endovascular neurosurgery method developed by neurosurgeon Viktor Shcheglov for treating cerebral vessels.
A short documentary.
The secrets of the healing power of honey, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, and even bee venom. Discoveries made in the 20th century have made it possible to use natural bee products in clinical practice for the manufacture of medicines.
The story of an old Bukovinian who returned to his homeland after some time. His heart rejoices at the magnificent scenery of the Carpathian Mountains, his meeting with Chernivtsi, folk customs, and folklore creations.
The Serpent’s Walls are over a thousand kilometers of ancient fortifications. These earthen embankments surrounding the modern territory of Kyiv are shrouded in legends. Researchers still cannot agree on who built them and why. How were they planned so effectively to protect the approaches to Kyiv, taking into account rivers, lakes, swamps, and hills? Traditional science claims that they were built during the reign of Volodymyr the Great and Yaroslav the Wise. But there are daredevils who challenge the traditional view of history. What if the Serpent Walls are two or even three thousand years old? Maybe Kyiv is much older than is commonly believed?
The film explores the biography of Taras Shevchenko, the "Kobzar," or more precisely, three editions of his works that were published during his lifetime in 1841, 1844, and 1860. It also highlights related issues, such as the emergence of the alphabet, the textual studies of Shevchenko's works and his friendly correspondence, his first trip to Ukraine, his arrest, and his last journey in 1860, censorship, and secret surveillance. All of these are closely intertwined with the biography of the "Kobzar." In addition, the biographical facts in this book reveal the emergence of an independent modern Ukrainian identity.
A short documentary.
A person is a dance of two opposites: good and evil, love and hate, light and darkness. Zhenya is an artist who lost this balance of opposites after his girlfriend betrayed him. He devises a plan to take revenge on his unfaithful lover, but where will his thirst for retribution lead him?