A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a...
A Spring for the Thirsty
A young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a...
Fragile Memory
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
The Guide
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. ...
Bad Roads
The Secret Diary of Simon Petliura takes an unprecedented look at the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, which declared an independent Ukraine...
The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura
One sunny morning in 1977 a man came out of the house, went to work and was in the 90s.
Komu vgoru, komu vniz
Based on the novel of the same name by Yurii Mushketyk. For the second year, a laboratory headed by professor Marchenko has been working on the...
White Shadow
Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells...
A Dream
A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker; which is spoilt...
Swan Lake: The Zone
Bertolt Brecht asked whether there would be singing in the dark times. In the throes of war, the United Ukrainian Ballet Company defiantly insists...
Front Row
January, 2022. Long-time neighbours and miners Serhiich and Pashka live in a small village in the Donbas. Their lives would be unremarkable were it...
Grey Bees
In a smoke-filled jazz bar in the center of an occupied city, a singer entertains drunken officers while the staff plays a hidden game of their own.
VARIÉTÉ
Thi is the story of a Kyiv boy who lives his life believing that the problems of his country do not interest him. However, everything changes when he...
The Way of Generations
Amid violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee. From cats and...
Us, Our Pets and the War
Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo...
The Forgotten
Few weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.
Taras. Return
There was an island inhabited by turtles. Their king above all else loved all kinds of praise and flattery, so subjects always followed them trying...
The Turtle King
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to...
The Black Council
After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity...
Butterfly Vision
1905. A Jewish Shtetl. Shimek and Buzya are two 10 year olds. Of course, she is a princess and he is a prince. They live in the same yard, in...
Song of Songs