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Late in the year, 2022, Ukranian film director, Marusya Shuvalova, at the age of 12 asked, “What do we all think about during this war? Is it possible to show a stream of consciousness? Can you make a movie about this?” She asked her mom to help her with the idea of making a film. Her mom wrote a post - a request on Facebook, asking friends to write out their thoughts for the last 5 minutes.
Pedestal, gold medal, flowers, and applause of fascinated spectators. We see the beautiful tip of the iceberg when the winner gets everything: recognition, sponsorship contracts, glossy photo shoots. But what really stands in the way of the title of the youngest two-time world champion in judo? What efforts were needed every step of the way to conquer Olympus, and who is the main rival? The short documentary "Anaconda" tells the story of one of the best athletes of today, Daria Bilodid. Who is Daria's main rival, what challenges does she face every day and why is the film called "Anaconda"?
Gala and Viktor are searching for their Heaven on earth. Even during the war. That's why they buy an abandoned house in the Carpathian Mountains and start repairing it. It's a place of peace and calmness, where they can grow their own food, be silent, be defenseless, and drink coffee overlooking the mountains and a stork's nest. But winter comes, the apple tree in the yard freezes, and the War reaches Heaven.
Meditative, an experimental and at the same time universal utterance about the nature of tyranny and totalitarianism.
A woman can't sleep.
Two men and a woman meet at the beach.
Kharkiv has been one of the hardest-hit cities in Ukraine since the 2022 Russian invasion. Apart from the loss of life, countless buildings have been damaged or destroyed. And the Russian bombing continues.
The story of two young men, Gebzbi and Clay, who live in their joyless cesspool, enjoying round-the-clock news. Clay really wants to draw a lucky ticket in life, but as they say, be careful what you wish for.
Nazar is about go to first grade for and he still can't read, and his older brother can't can't accept this fact, he tries to forse him off the phone in various ways to make him read something, but without any success. So he decide to summon the spirit of Charlie who fulfills desires and foresees the future and shows it to Nazar.
Deep dive into the roots of Ukrainian identity and the undoubtful will for freedom. Abstract animation about the personal choice on the way to national identity.
A short story about two very different dancers that get the inspiration from each other and find a courage in themselves to admit the adoration in the cutest way possible. No words needed.
Hazelnut, Walnut, Seed and Coconut - strong nuts and brave warriors. They defend their state from enemy attack. They act in harmony and win.
The girl discovers a ring under a cap in a restaurant and puts it on. Seeing her boyfriend return, she wants to take off the ring, but she can't.
Ukraine, 2022. Yulia learns from her friend that the evacuation from the city has begun. Quickly packing her things, she finds a box with Lego. She accidentally hits her head, and upon regaining consciousness, she discovers that the Lego man Carter can talk. Carter begins to tell Yulia about his plans for a military takeover of the Lego world.
Imagine if one day you could be anything you wanted. What would you choose - to remain yourself, or to become someone completely different? For our hero, this question is many times more difficult, because he never had a life or a personality. However, that will change today.
A wealthy woman faced the threat of death from an unexpected robber: Will she donate all of her money or will she die?
This compelling documentary follows the journey of Danyl Boldyrev, a determined Ukrainian speed climber forced to leave his native Donetsk amidst conflict. Despite the challenges of separation from his family and coach, Boldyrev remains steadfast in his pursuit of a long-held dream: representing his country on the Olympic stage. Through resilience and unwavering dedication, he strives to overcome adversity and achieve his ultimate goal.
The short documentary film that follows the world-famous Kyiv children's choir "Shchedryk" as they face a life-altering event. Set against the backdrop of war, a group of children between the ages of 12 and 17 find their lives shattered at 4 am on February 24, 2022. However, amidst the turmoil, music remains their solace. To reunite once again, the scattered members of the choir must come together to perform on the prestigious stage of Carnegie Hall. Through the challenges of war, they learn the true meaning of togetherness and the transformative power of music.
I am not a bird... Sometimes Giovanni appears wearing underpants... Why is everyone heading in the same direction?.. Souls prefer nocturnal journeys... An itinerant philosopher never set barefoot here... Inspired by the creative methods of James Joyce and James Benning, the author of this documentary tried to reflect his life and cultural experience in a form that is the most characteristic of the present time - an absurdity.
Documentary about the funeral of Georgi Alekseyev. Preserved in the Russian film archive.
Ukrainian silent film about Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, based on a play by Mykhailo Starytskyi. Lost.
This is a story about a couple forced to separate due to the circumstances of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Their relationship is affected by the long-distance communication and transformation of everyday life filled with the stresses of war, evacuation and military service. This is a reality of millions of Ukrainians whose life has changed forever since the 24th of February 2022. Released first online as a music video for the song and later received festival distribution as an animated short film.
A world-renown piano-player Michel Pellel refuses coming out of his flat after the breakup with his wife. Another morning he wakes up to find an unknown woman in his own bed who claims they didn't have anything with him. Michel is befuddled with her behaviour and asks her to stay for nine nights more. Film based on the French play "L'histoire des ours pandas racontée par un saxophoniste qui a une petite amie a Francfort" by Matei Visniec.
The story of one couple. A man "at zero" in the vicinity of Bakhmut, defends the country together with his brother. At this time, the wife is on her battlefield - in the delivery bed. Their poignant telephone conversation will reveal the entire tragic situation in which almost every Ukrainian family has fallen into after the Russian military invasion.
A story about what we experienced, are experiencing and what we will face later.
The young doctor tries to catch the heart after a car crash.
The protagonist of the film is the director's fellow villager Dmytro Fedorivskyi, nicknamed Mytia Karakhanchyk. He is a simple man - a farm loader who transports milk to the factory in the district, but he has so much humanity and warmth in him. He would bring medicine to someone from the district, buy some groceries for someone, or shovel snow near a widow's house. He was truly a merciful soul for many elderly people in his village.
Starting from a picture of her apartment in Kyiv, filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova remembers the life she has lived there. In three conversations with her mother and her friends, they reminisce about sleepovers, the view from the window and drunken nights on the rooftop. Through these memories, she begins to reclaim the image of her home.
Documentary portrait of a lost generation of teenagers in the Internet. A strange new world without maps and laws, where the heroes are in danger such as cyberbullying, network pedophilia, death challenges, propaganda of terrorism and self-harm. What attracts children in cyberspace? And will the older generation be able to save their children?
Maksym and Artem are roommates. Artem was expelled from the university and he will go home tomorrow. Will the last word be said and does it make sense?
Films about Ukrainian cities and regions are also part of the cultural heritage created by Ukrainian filmmakers. Many directors have made such films. The creative work of film director Vasyl Vitra also includes such films. He shot them mainly in the last decade of the last century, or rather, the last millennium. These are films about Kherson, Dniprodzerzhynsk, and Khmelnytskyi. So, three films about cities in the 1990s, at the turn of the millennium, which already look different today, and today these shots have become historical documents.
In 1997, Vinhranovsky resumed his project to create a “cinematic encyclopaedia of Ukraine” by securing funding from a private investor. He began filming the documentary “Hetman Sagaidachny,” facing concerns about the investor’s commitment and the lack of paintings from Petro Sagaidachny’s era. Overcoming these challenges, he found relevant paintings in Kyiv museums, confiscated in the 1930s. Filming, which was slow, concluded in April 1999.
Every child is born with a pure heart and soul, but the cruel world dictates its rules to us. Many children are traumatized and disappointed for many years. But the choice is always ours - how much we let this system into us.
After a working day, people come to listen to what is happening behind the Wall.
Three Cossacks cook porridge and tell each other fairy tales.
A part of the short film competition by Riyuchi Sakamoto, inspired by a scene from the movie Stalker (1979).
An auto-fictional essay about a gay community that makes use of a communication network consisting of amateur radio and grassroot hook-up apps. While the air is constantly interrupted by homophobic messages made of the intercepted military ciphers used by the Russian army, networks of love, empathy, and support become ever stronger. Produced as a close observation of everyday media practices and the social life of love relations, “The Film of Sand“ takes a close look at the interrelations of war and intimacy, threat and empathy, fiction and documentation.
Shot over the entire first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Kharkiv Files documents the life of soldiers and civilians from Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding oblast. The first half of the film shows life in the late winter and early spring, when Russian forces were relentlessly bombarding the city from its outskirts and Ukrainian forces were stubbornly resisting. The second half shows Ukrainian forces slowly pushing the Russians back towards the border, culminating in their famous counteroffensive in the fall. The film ends with the return of winter. The Russians have been almost entirely expelled from Kharkiv oblast, and a semblance of normality has returned to the city. But with the war still raging, no one knows if the battle for Kharkiv is truly finished.
Despite Russia's ongoing disinformation campaign, Ukrainian soldiers and young people succeed in defending the terminals of Donetsk International Airport, which serve as the last line of defense. But the joy is short-lived as intelligence reports that Russian forces are planning a rocket attack to destroy the airport. Despite the chaotic atmosphere, no one leaves the airport, and the tightly knit group prepares for the final battle...
“Robert” is a documentary film about a man that has been coming to Ukraine since 2005 to help children. In the movie, Robert comes back to the places where his journey in Ukraine began and also discovers new ones, such as Donbas, where children are in danger because of the war.
Behind the windows of her childhood home, the author hears the echoes of war. A lingering sense of danger haunts and eventually changes to a state between dream and reality. But as the dream disappears, the reality doesn't.
A woman is celebrating her wedding anniversary. Glasses are filled with wine, and festive plates are filled with stew. This is a first anniversary without a loved one - the joint dinner was prevented by the war. The only precious thing that has survived is the memory of her husband.
The animation is based on the famous ditty verses, where folk "black humor" is taken as the basis of the work.
Khrystyna Bunii travels solo across remote south-west Ukraine in pursuit of her anthropological research. As she encounters people and digitises their family photo archives, conversations and interconnections emerge. Conducting visual research into the trans-national region of Hutsulshchyna, Bunii pursues a political practice of self-narration from the margins of representation. The sequences of this poetic journey do not simply elucidate the history of the region, but rather call for an associative labour from researcher and spectator alike, and finding people who want to talk about the region’s past is not an easy task. Made through close collaboration between the film’s directors and protagonist, Weightless combines observational and direct cinema style with staged performance and elements of documentary-essay.
Innocent Ukrainians killed, for whom "tomorrow" will never come.
The documentary introduces the viewer to the life story of Nadiya Savchenko, the details of her detention and trial, as well as the family of the Ukrainian pilot, her childhood and the people who supported her.
The main character, 36-year-old Polina, is a perfectionist who seeks to arrange her life according to social standards, as a result of which she develops depression. Polina gets a job in a thrift store: it's quiet there, but you have to sell not perfect things to imperfect people. She is faced with a choice: to return to a prestigious job that destroys her, or to stay in an imperfect world and be happy.
The modern world in which Adam and Eve are parting. After spending a plenty of time together, the couple realizes that they don't feel anything for each other. So, they just need to let it go. However, the problem is that despite the lack of feelings, they just got used to each other.
A short documentary and poetic essay about the meaning of life during the war when you believed in "never again".
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, where the signatory countries guaranteed Ukraine the preservation of territorial integrity in exchange for the renunciation of nuclear weapons. In 2014, when the annexation of Crimea by Russia took place, the signatory countries accepted the occupation. On December 5, 2019, our creative team carried out an intervention at the Museum of Modern Art in Odesa, in the form of an illegal installation of the "I Want More" exhibit in the museum's exposition. The purpose of the film and the intervention is to show the people of Ukraine and the international community that attempts to appease Russia and make concessions to it will only lead to new aggression and new occupation of territories.
When the girl returns home, her husband drives her away with her things. The embarrassed girl goes on a trip to the city to find an answer on how to live. On her way, the girl meets lovers who give her a balloon; a couple with cloth-covered faces; suicide; a man performing a funeral ritual and mentally ill in a straitjacket. Who are all these people and will they help the abandoned girl find the answer to her question?
Reasoning of Ukrainian children who survived the war, what will be the future of their country.
Short animated film about the Ukrainian icebreaker research ship "Noosfera" (translated name Noosphere) and that Ukraine is part of the scientific world community, researchers of Antarctica and the world's oceans and climate.
Katia Hello Vadym Died Didkivskyi Vadym Yuriyovych "Cherkasy". "AZOV Kyiv" Special Operations Forces. Сame to the defense of the country as a volunteer after the full-scale invasion of russia on February 24, 2022. He didn't have any military experience, but he had a pure heart and a strong spirit. At the age of 26, on May 1, 2022 he heroically died defending the country in the Mariupol direction.
A short story about a unique history textbook written by only one of the letters from the alphabet- Z.
The film is about the night of February 23, 2022. Casual Ukrainian families are depicted spending their evening routine in their cozy homes. But the atmosphere is becoming more and more disturbing — the storm is coming.
A series of short absurd stories about relationships.
Do you know how the unconscious communicates with you? Can you distinguish your own thought from the thought of another person in your own brain? Can you distinguish truth from lies within yourself? Who is the one talking to you beyond your consent? How do you move from your own survival-oriented truth to the imperishable law of truth – love? Have time to tell yourself the truth. Adaptation of “the gentle one” is a basic way of finding your truth, which had been prescribed by fyodor dostoevsky long before the generally accepted system of sigmund freud.