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Based on a true story and actual events in the life of Ukrainian sniper Mykola Voronin. In 2014, after invading soldiers kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground, a Ukrainian physics teacher renounces his peaceful way of life, enlists in the military, and becomes a skilled sniper. Vowing revenge for both his wife and his fallen instructor and friend, he must find the elite Russian soldiers responsible and eliminate them one by one.
2) Reflection
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Ukrainian
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In 2014, Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy enlists to fight Russian military forces in the Donbass region, where he is captured by enemy soldiers. Now a prisoner of war, Serhiy is forced to witness horrifying scenes of humiliation and violence at the hands of the Russian invaders, his medical background co-opted to dispense mercy killings to the tortured. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment, still suffering from the trauma...
3) Atlantis
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Ukrainian
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In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought in by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
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2003, four years before Slovakia entered the Schengen Area. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get illegaly to Germany through Slovakia, like many people before them. The border between Slovakia and Ukraine will be in a couple of years one of the most secured borders in Europe, but in 2003 it is still open for smugglers and for people hoping to find a new life in Western Europe. Martin and Denisija both dream about getting...
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There’s a lot more stirring in this house than a mouse…
Everyone knows Santa arrives on the rooftop with the clatter of eight tiny reindeer. But did you realize that 2023 is the 200th publication anniversary of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous American poem about Santa coming down the chimney? And now, creative director Sally Veillette has packaged the ultimate version of this beloved rhyme to share with the world.
Consider getting our award-winning...
6) Home Games
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Ukrainian
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The film depicts the life of Alina Shilova, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty. Alina is now a professional player, but her situation remains uncertain: her mother suddenly dies, leaving behind Alina’s beloved siblings, Renat & Regina, 6 and 7 years old. Alina becomes a substitute mother. Her career plans are on the verge of collapse. The whole dysfunctional family is living in a cramped...
7) Masks!
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Ukrainian
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The young characters of this story have been told by their families that from now on everyone will need to wear protective masks and will need to stay away from each other. With new masks on their faces, the teenagers decide to go to an ice cream shop with their parents. They see it as a joke when adults on the streets wear strange hats as a reminder of the new laws. In any case, the use of masks and not interacting with people does not upset them,...
8) Invasion
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Ukrainian
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Dmytro Hromov and Oleh Ladyzhensky had never written documentary prose before, only fiction. They had never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fiction that Oldie is used to. Different language, different style, according to the circumstances. These notes were written in cities under fire, in basements and bomb shelters, on evacuation trains and buses, in rented apartments during short pauses of...
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In Southern Ukraine, the port city of Kherson was the first major city to fall to Moscow's forces. Held hostage in their own homes, the people of Kherson have endured psychological horrors beyond imagination. Here, sometimes the silence is more frightening than the shelling. Some have escaped but are terrified to relate what they witnessed for fear of their families and relatives left behind. This documentary recounts the harrowing experience of invasion...
10) Klondike
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Ukrainian
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The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.
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Jürgen Appelo, a successful entrepreneur and well-known leadership expert, is paving new paths in management to help creative organizations survive and succeed in the 21st century. His new book, Startup, Scalap, Scruap, is based not only on the author's own experience with startup management, but also on research and interviews conducted in many European countries. The main goal of the author is to unify the methods and tools that are successfully...
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The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave.
A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus' to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring territory. The anonymous poet who chronicled this adventure packed unprecedented metaphorical agility, keenness of observation, and...
13) Occupied
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Ukrainian
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Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, spent three months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation. In an extraordinary film for BBC Eye, Dmytro chronicles the harsh reality of life under occupation, as food and medicines become scarce, people flee, and others begin to disappear. Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shield their four-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war, and make the difficult decision...
15) Deserts
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Ukrainian
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How do desert animals and plants get their water?
What animals live in the desert?
Learn all about the desert and the species that call it home.
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Ukrainian
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Written and illustrated for children ages 5 to 7, this book celebrates grandmothers, the superheroes without whom none of us would exist, and the cultural traditions they carry, uniting and nurturing families across space and time. A thousand-year-old Korean New Year tradition illustrates the universal importance of multigenerational family and immigrant backgrounds.
17) Stop-Zemlia
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Ukrainian
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Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of...
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Ukrainian
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A portrait of a bohemian Ukrainian family. Artist/Singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece Katya are struggling through daily life filled with love, soul searching, loneliness and illness. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
20) Maidan
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Ukrainian
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Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, MAIDAN chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West. Filmed in stunning long takes, sans commentary, MAIDAN is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, cultural and philosophical phenomenon. Official Selection...
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