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Podil is a historic district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was first mentioned in chronicles in 945. It has experienced and witnessed many things. And it has not survived many things. I have always been amazed by the number of freely written drawings and words on the walls, fences, and bus stops in this neighborhood. I have never seen so many of them anywhere else. So one day, they found their way onto my editing table to tell their story...
A lighthouse keeper loses his family in a storm, so he can't let another death happen.
Since childhood, Yevhen has shown a peculiar fascination with cemeteries; today he is the author of more than a hundred monuments. In his community, he plays an important social role by drawing attention to memory and reconciliation, creating memorials for those who found their final rest in a small town in western Ukraine. Throughout the film, we observe this eccentric man with his homespun philosophy and sense of humor, who manages to combine cosmopolitanism and asceticism with an active, provocative presence in the everyday life of his community.
Equal parts music video and documentary. This clip was shot in and around the infamous former Chornobyl nuclear plant where catastrophe struck in 1986.
The forest is being replaced by a shopping mall, the station is becoming a lonely place, since the trains hardly run anymore. The city becomes a still life full of tender emotions of belonging in a country in which space and identity are highly contested fields.
Sometimes we all miss our homes. The places which fill us with happiness and warm feelings. My country house has an image of the intangible safe space built of memories.
A short fiction film.
”My brother Yura, an architect, reminisces about the destroyed buildings of a former children's sanatorium in the village of Led, a suburb of Kharkiv, where he lives. Today, my brother counts the explosions of bombs outside the window of his house. He hardly moves. He is ill. He is 75 years old.”
“The text is open ad infinitum”. Roland Barthes.
Part of the project that engages with the specificity of Vienna’s Alterlaa residential district, an example of modernist architecture that is now considered to symbolize a failed utopia.
Using dystopian storytelling, the project deals with the common close connection between technology and humans. In the form of a video installation with multiple series, the subjects are built on the idea of bodyless life and its different combinations. How will beings of such a distinct future life form look together, what questions or problems can emerge in their connections? The overplayed stories about these future beings are necessary for searching for maybe the most unexpected, but difficult questions in the context of the conjunction of people and artificial intelligence.
A visual reflection on avian life and movement, connecting human presence, ecological observation, and memory in Ukrainian terrains.
Impressions from the suburban area in Zaporizhzhia: arterial roads, residential silos, factory ruins, industrial wastelands. For someone ugly suburban architecture, for the director a meditative space. A sensitive look through a kaleidoscope that reveals yearnings and dreams in seemingly dreary grey. A very personal dialogue with inconspicuous beauty, transience and permanent change.
A dynamic documentary film on up-and-coming bands in the east of the Ukraine: they play an aggressive form of rock and punk, prefer not to think of the war and find themselves in a constant state of rebellion against the establishment. Music gives meaning to life, though saying that the music-making process isn't always conflict-free.
There was once an agglomeration that went by the name of Svetlograd, itself the result of a merger of the three cities Lysychansk, Rubizhne und Severnodonetsk. The locals used to make a living thanks to the chemical plant, which was virtually a monopoly employer in the region. Subsequently however the plant was closed and the locals made redundant. Nevertheless they refused to give up, and proceded to craft imaginative artworks from cardboard, metal and other materials left behind by the factory, soon transforming the city into a new Ukrainian centre for modern art. That it could have turned out this way is illustrated by this pseudo-documentary, in which interviews with fictitious locals, videos and archive images of the factory create a pretence of authenticity.
Declarations of love and a patriotic children's song provide the framework for this tactful documentary film on everyday life in Donetsk, a city that finds itself in the middle of a war zone in eastern Ukraine, featuring scenes as diverse as a sun-soaked street festival and a menacing squadron of fighter planes up above.
Maria Voronchuk observes life in her hometown, founded in 1938 as a mining community: in the local arts centre the band Paradox rehearses for its forthcoming performance. Outside it is market day; elsewhere people queue at a cash machine, whilst two boys report that School Number 19 is the scene of daily exchange of fire.
Taras wants to fly on holidays with his family, but the evening before members of the military are at the door and take him with them. They have been looking for him all day – that’s how important he is. In the last moment he escapes military service, but a conversation with a few volunteers continues to have an effect on him.
The first week of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022: a sudden rupture when modern history begins anew. Observing three rear areas at different distances from the frontlines, three filmmakers capture fractured moments of daily life — a collective testimony of tragedy and awakening.
The film focuses on the emotionality of social media and its role in the militarization of Ukrainian society. The ability of social media to capture emotions and retranslate them, turn emotional contagion into a closed collective practice, and the community — into a single organism capable of achieving real change. This form of collectivity, which develops on the basis of digital interaction, can have very different consequences. Where exactly is the line between solidarity and radicalization? How can empathy turn into hatred?
A documentary about Roma people who defend Ukraine, evacuate, and take in refugees—just like anyone else in Ukraine right now. However, it is not so easy for them: people are unwilling to help them, refuse to provide shelter, and sometimes discriminate against them. Documentary captures their stories, revealing new facts about this national minority, their life in Ukraine, and their relations with their neighbors.
A short animation.
After staying in the basement of a high-rise building until the last explosion, the friends go home to continue their usual day. This movie is about what has already been experienced and continues to be lived every day.
In a world where the sun has been lost for ten years, the last echoes of humanity linger in the ruins of a forgotten faith. Drawn to ancient tablets, they fall into a haunting dance, consumed by a radiance that blurs life and madness. Transformed beyond their human form, they choose to walk an impossible path—to create life anew. Through barren lands, they embark on their final journey, seeking to rekindle the soul of existence.
The performance is dedicated to the anniversary of the tragic events that took place in February 2014 at the Institutskaja street (Kiev, Ukraine), during which in a few days more than fifty people were killed. The clashes occured between protesters against the government and representatives of law enforcement agencies.
A film essay about the realities of the first months of large-scale war, recorded in correspondence between a mother and daughter.
We often see these children on our streets... A short documentary about those who live among us, under the manhole covers of Odesa.
Hundreds of Ukrainian and international filmmakers and media personalities were killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is a collection of one-minute episodes about them, primarily based on unique private videos.
Seven stories about women of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine 2013-2014.
A young girl, disappointed in her own abilities, falls asleep over a crumpled drawing. In her dream, she finds herself in a futuristic city - Los Angeles 2.0, where she meets a charismatic fox guide named Phoenix. Together they embark on a journey that reveals to the girl the true value of her dreams and talents.
About the renowned clinician, scientist, and first academician among Ukrainian physicians, Teofil Gavrilovich Yanovsky, who valued compassion above worldly fame. All of Kyiv attended the funeral of the Doctor in 1928.
An industrial documentary.
A short police documentary.
A film about the work of the Ukrainian police.
A film about preventing apartment thefts.
A short documentary.
A short educational film.
A short educational film.
A short documentary.
A two-part documentary about Doomsday sectarians.
A short documentary about security forces.
A short educational film.
A short documentary.
A short documentary.
A short industrial documentary.
A short documentary.
The consequences of increased radioactive background after the Chornobyl disaster. The rise in morbidity and the search by doctors and scientists for ways to minimize the negative effects of radiation.
A short documentary about Chornobyl and the young generation.
A documentary about the Chornobyl disaster.
Is the choice of symbols for the state of Ukraine accidental? How far back in history do their origins lie? The blue and yellow colors of the flag and the trident on the coat of arms have been known since the time of the Grand Dukes of Kyiv. The film takes us even further back, 7,000 years ago, to say with certainty that the symbols of Ukraine were passed down to descendants from their ancestors.
A historical documentary.
A short documentary about the city of Kremenets.
A cinema history documentary.
A Perebudova documentary.
A short industrial documentary.
A short art documentary.
The fate of the Crimean Tatar people, deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan in 1945. The difficult path back to their homeland, the problems of national revival. Newsreel footage tells the story of the Crimean Tatars' life in Crimea before World War II and the Nazi occupation of Crimea.
A short documentary.
The film explores Ukrainian history based on unedited footage from a journalist of Sevastopol TV.