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1) Bad Roads
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge. Ukraine's official 2022 Oscar submission.
2) Klondike
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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...
4) Stop-Zemlia
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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...
5) Olga
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A talented young gymnast from Kyiv, played by real-life former Ukrainian national team member Anastasiia Budiashkina, moves to Switzerland to pursue her Olympic dreams in Elie Grappe’s award-winning drama. Set in 2014, the film follows 15-year-old OLGA as she tries to make friends on her new team and adjust to life in her new home. As she relentlessly trains in preparation for the European Championships, her friends and family back in the Ukraine...
Language
Ukrainian
Formats
Description
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.
8) Atlantis
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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.
9) Reflection
Language
Ukrainian
Formats
Description
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...
11) Hutsulka ksenya
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A beautiful musical comedy that follows one young man's journey as he experiences the true spirit of Ukraine on his search for a woman to call his wife.
12) Bad roads
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge. Ukraine's official Oscar submission for the 2022 Academy Awards,...
13) Donbass
Language
Ukrainian
Description
In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?
Series
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A deeply heartfelt story set during the early part of the 20th century in the Ukrainian Carpathians, centering on Ivan whose life is marked with sadness. First his brother is killed while saving him from a falling tree. Then his father is murdered, forcing Ivan and his mother to live in poverty. He falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of the man responsible for his father's death. Marichka drowns rescuing a lamb from a river, but Ivan remains...
Language
Ukrainian
Description
1917, the Crimea. Fanny Kaplan is blind and out of prison. She starts an affair with her doctor, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov. Her affair ends unexpectedly when she runs into her first lover "the terrorist who she went to prison for" and who is now a member of the Russian secret police. Soon after, she is accused of an assassination attempt on Dimitry's brother: Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin. This film tells an incredible true story of revolutionary Russia and...
17) Stop-Zemlia
Language
Ukrainian
Description
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 school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone.
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