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- DirectorNariman AlievStarsAkhtem SeitablaevRemzi BilyalovDariya BarikhashviliA father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
- StarsIrina MakViktor ZhdanovTaras TsimbalyukTwo sons are getting married and bring their wieves to the family house. Different attitudes and bad temper lead to inevitable drama and emotional turmoil as life happens to every character in the series.
- StarsMaksym SamchykViktoriia LytvynenkoTaisiya-Oksana ShchurukThe series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers. They struggle with bullying, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises, alcoholic parents and speech disabilities.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsMakar TikhomirovVyacheslav DovzhenkoAndrey IsaenkoIt is a story of a several-week-long military duty in September 2014. A group of military volunteers comes to Donetsk Airport for the first time - the Airport has been held by Ukrainians for more than four months of war.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsSofiko ChiaureliMelkon AlekyanVilen GalstyanThe life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. Hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
- DirectorAntonio LukichStarsAndriy LidagovskiyIrma VitovskaIryna OstrovskaA sound engineer tries to record the song of a rare bird that dwells in the Ukrainian mountains.
- DirectorOles SaninStarsStanislav BoklanJeff BurrellBoris GeorgievskiyAmerican boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-1930s Soviet Ukraine.
- DirectorMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiStarsHryhoriy FesenkoYana NovikovaRosa BabiyA deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorNatalya VorozhbitStarsIgor KoltovskyyAndrey LelyukhVolodymyr HurinFour short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
- DirectorNadia ParfanFor many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that "the heating comes first - and only then do we sing!". The rehearsal schedule must be organized around the "heating season". As the collective are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?
- DirectorTonya NoyabrovaStarsEvgen BushmakinOleh ShevtsovOleksandr YaremaWhen Zhorik moves to Kyiv, he has high hopes to improve his life. But then he encounters the mundane struggles, bureaucracy, and corruption of Ukrainian reality.
- DirectorArkadiy NepytaliukStarsDmytro HomyakNina NabokaZakharii NovytskyA grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter - three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their hard, lonely and miserable lives have become closely intertwined with love and hate playing a part in their own personal circumstances. A trip to visit the grandmother living in the small, God-forsaken and almost abandoned village of Pryputni becomes a turning point. In just one day, filled with strange and almost tragic events, the women are forced to re-evaluate their lives and break out of the vicious circle of daily routine, dull habits and fusty old ideas. A new and fresh outlook beckons.
- StarsPavel DelongIryna OstrovskaPavlo AldoshynLviv, at the dawn of the 19th century. Young Anna lives a simple life, helping her uncle in the bakery, while her brother is in the seminary. However, Anna dreams of something much greater: a true and mutual love.
- DirectorKresten Vestbjerg AndersenThorbjørn ChristoffersenStefan FjeldmarkStarsAnders MatthesenKim MatthesonBill BaileyTerkel is an average teenager whose life takes a turn for the worse when a girl who had a crush on him kills herself and an unknown maniac starts stalking him.
- CreatorJon FavreauStarsPedro PascalChris BartlettKatee SackhoffThe travels of a lone bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic.
- DirectorTaras TkachenkoStarsTaras TsimbalyukPavel MoskalDaniil MireshkinBeing a full-blooded Ukrainian, Ivan possessed qualities such as courage, and the flow in his veins forced him to support a movement. Being a loving person, he cannot look the other way for what is happening in his hometown. He, along with like-minded people, begins a desperate fight for the freedom of his homeland and loved ones.
- DirectorTaras TkachenkoStarsRimma ZyubinaVitaliy LinetskiyMauro CiprianiA Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.
- DirectorKateryna GornostaiStarsMaria FedorchenkoArsenii MarkovYana IsaienkoNavigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsGalina SulimaGeorgiy MorozyukAleksey GorbunovThis film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family. The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsDmitri MilyutenkoLarisa KadochnikovaFeodosiya LitvinenkoThe old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsSergey RomanyukLyudmila EfimenkoLes SerdyukIn the year 1659, faithful cossacks assist hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyy's daughter in hiding the symbols of authority over Ukraine, until the new hetman is legally elected.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukLidiya BelozyorovaFyodor StrigunA Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
- DirectorVolodymyr SidkoStarsNazar BorushokVitaliy ChornyyPavlo Dovhan-LevytskyiThe plot is based on real events. Shortly before the start of the First World War, in a Viennese cafe they met: the psychiatrist Sigmund, the seminarian Joseph, the provincial journalist Lev, the painter Adolf, a loser in life. The heroes will drink coffee, which will be prepared for them by a waitress, a girl from Galicia, and not even guess that very soon they will direct the fate of the twentieth century.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsDinara AvazAleksey GorbunovUsnie KhalilovaA story about a tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar nation - 18 of may 1944 -Stalin's deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Main character of the film - a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amehtan Sultan - goes on furlough to his native town Alupka in May of 1944 and witnesses the deportation.
- DirectorBoris ShilenkoStarsIvan GavrilyukErnst RomanovA story of Ivan Sirko, the legendary Ukrainian originally from the Merefa county near Kharkiv, who was elected the leader of Cossacks eight times, bravely fought and won 53 major battles.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsOlga Reus-PetrenkoEduard KoshmanYuriy GulyayevUkrainian singer, who has just won an international contest, recollects her life journey from childhood, through WWII, to the present day.
- DirectorYaroslav LodyginStarsOleg MoskalenkoVladimir YamnenkoAleksey GorbunovHerman Korolyov, 33, is getting by, working a meaningless executive job in a big city. One day he gets a strange call and learns that his older brother has mysteriously disappeared. Herman must go back to his hometown to defend the family business - a small gas station (and with it, old friends and a girlfriend from the past) - against the 'kukuruzniks', mafia-type gangs that are grabbing up businesses and land in the Donbas region and turning them into corn fields and railways that lead nowhere.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBogdan StupkaLyudmila EfimenkoNikita DzhigurdaA Prayer for Hetman Mazepa unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle.
- DirectorMykhailo IllienkoStarsDmytro LinartovychVitaliy LinetskiyOlga GrishinaThe Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBoris KhmelnitskiyLarisa KadochnikovaYefim FridmanPiotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLarisa KadochnikovaIvan MikolaychukBogdan StupkaColourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsMykola BerezaOleg ShulgaAleksandr MavritsIn 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of criminal leaders, treachery, and despair. Despite the repression of the prison-camp commander, Danylo finds the strength to resist and makes a desperate attempt to break free, sparking the first rebellion in the camp.
- DirectorAlexey TaranenkoStarsVitaliy SaliyWiktoria GorodeckaAnna IvanovaSasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life.
- DirectorMyroslav LatykStarsVasiliy KukharskiyOlga MakeevaVladimir YushchenkoUkraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy SamoylovIvan SkuratovLuka LyashenkoBiography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- DirectorLeonid KanterIvan YasniyStarsBohemaHatyloThis is a story of a new Ukrainian army and new Ukrainian society being born. After Maidan revolution Ukrainian volunteer warriors defend Donetsk Airport from pro-Russian separatists and Russian militaries.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorMikhail MikheyevIn the depths of the Kolyma Mountains were camps that held Stalin and the Soviet Union's prisoners. Some were unjustly held for no reason at all. Their horrors are told firsthand with shocking detail of a sad time and place in Russian history.
- DirectorIvan GavrilyukStarsTetyana BashtanovaBorislav BrondukovIvan GavrilyukA young journalist Sofia, who survived the betrayal and death of her husband, has to write an article about a detective. For all his activities, only two of the cases assigned to him remain unsolved. Sofia understands the reason for these failed cases.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsRoman LutskyiStanislav AseyevOleksandr DanyliukUkrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life.
- DirectorEvgeny AfineevskyStarsHis Beatitude SviatoslavSaid IsmagilovBishop AgapitA documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndrey SamininOlga GrishinaMikhail ZhoninChristmas Lviv. Cellist Orest is entangled in a chain of personal, domestic and work problems. And at some point it reaches the boiling point.
- DirectorOleh SentsovStarsSerhii FilimonovEvhen ChernykovYevhen GrygorievThe history of the film unfolds in the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist - a bandit nicknamed Rhinoceros - falls into the grip of the Ukrainian criminal world in the 1990s and begins his bloody path, which leads him not where he expected.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsMarharyta BurlutskaAnjelika StolyarovaOlga TronovaChildren and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.
- DirectorEva NeymannStarsNikolas AdamidisValeriy BasselVitalina BiblivA 8-year-old boy is travelling with his mother towards his grandfather, but their journey is stopped when the young woman dies of typhus in an unknown town, just as poor and in ruins as any other on the way. However, the boy is determined to go on. Eva Neymann's film is a visual journey into a country covered in snow and left poor by war. This is a place of beautiful, deserted landscapes and people overcome by both need and greed. The tranquil black-and-white images created by Lithuanian cameraman Rimmvydas Leipus masterfully evoke the atmosphere of the Second World War's penultimate year in the Soviet Union. The picture was based on motifs drawn from the autobiographical story of the same name by writer and screenwriter Friedrich Gorenstein, who also penned the script for Tarkovsky's Solaris.
- DirectorOleh MalamuzhOleksandra RubanYevheniy YermakStarsSarah NatochennyMarc ThompsonMike PollockMavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls in love with a human, a talented young musician Lucas.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsOleg AfanasyevAlexandra RyabichkinaJarikTHE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.
- DirectorOles SaninStarsViktoria SpesivtsevaAndrij BilousNazl SejtablaevaMamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsVasyl SymchychIvan GavrilyukAntonina LeftiyThe film tells about the participation of Carpathian farmers and hunters led by Zakhar Berkut in the fight against the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus.
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsBorislav BrondukovDaniil IlchenkoYekaterina MateykThe Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.
- DirectorIvan MikolaychukStarsLyubov PolishchukIvan MikolaychukLes SerdyukThe small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.
- DirectorYaroslav PopovStarsLeonid KanterIt is lifelong documentary film. About the brave trip with a Stool to the Ocean of Leonid Kanter and his friends-dreamers, which had turned into a return to Ukraine on war-fire and the last shot of the director's life.
- DirectorLeonid KanterIvan YasniyStarsOrest SlipakVasyl SlipakThe film is the remarkable and tragic story of Wassyl Slipak; Ukrainian opera singer whose unique voice and talent brought him world recognition and death on the war.
- DirectorLeonid KanterIvan YasniyStarsLeonid KanterA short documentary by Leonid Kanter and Ivan Yasniy about the creation of a new Ukrainian army based on personal experience at the National Guard of Ukraine at the start of the war.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsGary CooperAnna StenRalph BellamyBecause his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for his book on the lives and customs of the local immigrant tobacco farmers, his wife returns to New York and, alas, his Japanese servant deserts him. He meets neighboring farm girl Manya Novak and hires her to cook his meals and clean his house. They soon fall in love, but following the customs of the old country, her father has entered a 'marriage bargain' for her to wed Fredrik Sobieski, a man not of her choosing.
- DirectorErich EngelFyodor OtsepStarsFritz KortnerAnna StenFritz RaspSuspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father: Dimitri asks his father for his heritage. The father says he wants to marry young Grushenka. Dimitri tries to talk the girl out of that plan and is himself totally smitten with her.
- DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsAnna StenIvan Koval-SamborskyMikhail NarokovJacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
- DirectorPatvakan BarkhudaryanMikheil GelovaniStarsHasmik AgopyanNina ManucharyanMikheil GelovaniIt's a tragic story of an epileptic girl, who is the victim of the prejudices of her husband's family.
- DirectorStanislav KapralovStarsValeriia KaramanDaniel OlbrychskiPavlo AldoshynAn American detective travels to Ukraine to investigate the disappearance of his former mentor, and with the help of his mentor's daughter, the pair uncover a sinister plot involving an ancient cult.
- DirectorRoman BrovkoStarsDmytro YaroshenkoDiana RozovlyanEvgeniya GladiyThis is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
- DirectorAntonio LukichStarsAmil NasirovRamil NasirovNataliya GnitiyMykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.
- StarsMaksim KostyuninMaryna KoshkinaViktor ZhdanovThe First World War, the Bolshevik revolution, and the emergence of Soviet regime are seen through the eyes of ordinary people.
- DirectorIvan TymchenkoStarsTaras KostanchukOleg DrachAleksandr MavritsBased on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle.
- DirectorViktor IvanovStarsOleg BorisovMargarita KrinitsynaNikolay YakovchenkoMadcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
- DirectorMyroslav LatykStarsMykhailo DziubaAnton WellboyIrma VitovskaA seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of Sveta. For the sake of his dream, he is willing to risk everything, but circumstances steer his life in a different direction.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsYuriy IzdrykAndriy CherednykVladyslav BaliukA story about relationships between children and adults broken by shaky 1990s in Ukraine. The boy Tymophii befriends a weird man named Felix. He's the veteran of Afghan war, he has PTSD and he loves music.
- DirectorNatalya VorozhbitStarsRuslana PisankaOleksandra KovalenkoMykola PonomarenkoA man with a stack of pulp fiction arrives in a village in the Poltava region. Locals know that his name is Slavik, that he comes from Russia, and that he doesn't drink alcohol. Otherwise, he's just like anybody else. He's just a mediocre person. He meets a bright personality in the village. She's a widow called Nina, a local producer of moonshine. Nina is about 20 years older than him. She has a past, she's nervous, but her charisma and vitality attract people. Slavik was also attracted by this. It wasn't easy for them to be together. She loved with passion and was jealous. She wanted him to dig potatoes, not to read, and to booze with her. He learned how to do only the last thing. He had thought he would spend a winter with her and then leave. But no way. Slavik returned to Nina many times as if he was tied to her with some invisible threads. He can't explain his affection for her by anything other than mysticism.
- DirectorPavlo OstrikovStarsVolodymyr KravchukAfter Earth explodes, a lonely Ukrainian space trucker Andriy remained the only survivor until a French scientist Catherine appears on the radio. Despite all the obstacles, Andriy decides to see her.
- DirectorPhilip SotnychenkoStarsAndrii ZhurbaNovruz HikmetValeria OleinikovaUkraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaBased on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoA mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.
- StarsYuriy KovalenkoAnna LevchenkoValeriy ChiglyaevEach 3-minute series tells a well-known or forgotten fairy tale, story, legend from a specific city of Ukraine, be it a big city or a small village, a field or the sea.
- DirectorRoman LiubyiPersonal videos from the phones, camcorders, cameras and GoPros of Ukrainian soldiers are woven into a surreal journey to the front line of the war with Russia. The film shows a bizarre world whose laws are quite different from what we are used to. The behavior is different, the relationships unfold differently and the humour takes on different notes. The heroes wake up and fall asleep, rejoice and cry, always feeling that the recording may end at any moment.
- DirectorFeliks SobolevHow independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave.
- DirectorAlisa KovalenkoStarsAlisa KovalenkoFor five teenagers living in the conflict-ridden Donbas region of Ukraine, a Himalayan expedition provides a brief escape from reality. A portrait of a generation that, in spite of everything, is able to recognize and celebrate the fragile beauty of life.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukYuriy LeontevDmitri MilyutenkoYoung Taras Shevchenko, the author of seditious poems, is summoned for questioning. Instead of explanations, the poet writes new poems, which he dedicates to the unhappy fate of Ukraine.
- DirectorJakob PreussDonetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the Orange Revolution and a fan of the local football team, Shakhtar Donetsk. Billionaire Akhmetov invests heavily in the club, which is becoming a major European force during the season followed by the film. Yet this sporting success funded by an Oligarch fortune only seems to highlight the wider social and political stagnation of the region. Off the pitch, the outlook appears bleak...
- DirectorTaras KhymychStarsTsyan Pen ChenDmytro KarshnevychYuriy KhvostenkoIn 1943, the Ukrainians managed to organize an insurgent army capable of conducting large-scale military operations on two fronts - against the Germans and the Bolsheviks.
- DirectorTaras TomenkoStarsBoris GeorgievskiyAnna LevchenkoMykhaylo VoznyukThe extraordinary story of Ukraine's "Slovo House".
- DirectorChristopher WaltersStarsVasyl BaydakSasha KachuraHanna KochehuraA unique view of war through the lens of comedy. Comedians perform to maintain a sense of normalcy, optimism and defiance - laughing in spite of the war, not at it. They tour war-torn Ukraine to bringing laughter to those who need it most.
- DirectorVitalii MalakhovIhor VysnevskyiStarsVyacheslav DovzhenkoNadiya LevchenkoAkhtem SeitablaevA historical drama dedicated to Ivan Franko's son Peter, who lived a life full of achievements and adventures.
- DirectorMisha KostrovStarsAleksandr PozharskiyKostyantyn LinartovychHryhorii BaklanovIt is a fairy tale for children and adolescents. It tells about famous warriors Cossacks and their families. It's about the Paradise and the Hell, Christmas and evil powers. The Devil strikes a deal with St. Peter. If he can capture the best Cossack warrior and hold him until the Christmas night, he will be able to wipe the entire Cossack nation off the map. After that, the Devil catches a Cossack warrior Simon by using underworld trickery. Meanwhile, Simon's parents are trying to save their son. Traditional heroes of the Ukrainian folklore come to help. As long as our hero tries to free himself, the devil creates a mighty army and transforms Semen's friends into witches. In the end, Simon finds his Cossack way out of captivity to freedom.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsElizaveta BuryanovaTetiana ChornovolYaroslav KendziorThe film's events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood. The film combines places and people that best capture the country's wartime spirit. The locations are: the relatively safe cities of Kyiv and Lviv; the cities under daily missile fire of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, a trench at the frontlines in Donetsk oblast, and the beaches of Odesa. The film presents a day in the life of: a beach police patrol, a woman anti-tank missile soldier, a rapid assault unit soldier, a mortar unit soldier (all three serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine), a young pub worker, an artist and a former member of parliament. Together, these people and places will provide an engaging mosaic of a day in the life of Ukraine.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukStarsSerhiy StepanskyViktor ZhdanovKhrystyna DeylykAfter several strange coincidences, Lukas, translator, who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is confronted with a totally new universe, in which life seems to be completely detached from any kind of structure. Despite his initial animosity, Lukas gets more and more fascinated by Vova as well as by his daughter Marushka - and finally starts his own quest for a long ago lost happiness.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsTaras DenisenkoLesya SamaevaVitaliy LinetskiyForty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsMariya VasyanovychOlexandr VasyanovychMaria, aged 82, and her sick son Sashko live out their days in a remote province. Sashko went blind because of serious illness. He's afraid that his mother is dying, but Maria desperately clings to life as she realizes that no one will take care of her son. They may seem to be acting irrationally, but they are heroically unwilling to surrender. Maria buys a calf, Sashko starts to build a tractor, groping his way in the darkness.
- DirectorMarysia NikitiukStarsAnastasiya PustovitSofia HalaimovaMaksym SamchykThe story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds herself at a crossroads after the death of her father. Yearning to be self made, the village community ostracizes her for loving Scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrificed her love for a young gypsy abandoning him for traditional values and other people's opinions. Larysa's mother is too psychologically weak to support her daughter. Larysa and Scar plan to escape from a life of crime, misery and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for freedom?
- DirectorMarina StepanskaStarsChristian BorysOleh MosiichukDaria PlakhtiiTwo bewildered young Ukrainians, part of the post-revolutionary generation seeking their place, meet at a pivotal moment and experience a few days of happiness together.
- DirectorPhilip SotnychenkoStarsNina TararuievaSerhiy GornyiOne extraordinary technical break. A report with no cuts.