Films on Russian aggression in Ukraine (Crimea) (2014-present)
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2014, annexing the Crimea and later partly occupying the east of Ukraine, tearing apart the largest independent European state. Millions of Ukrainians were displaced and thousands of mothers in almost each town in Ukraine have to bury their children who fell as soldiers protecting their homeland in this announced war; hundreds of Ukrainians became Kremlin's political prisoners.
In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine again, with the war and the occupation ongoing. Over 10M Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes, over 3M became refugees abroad, several localities completely destroyed. Around 150 children killed.
These events are being reflected in both documentaries and fictions, as yet another geopolitical crucifixion of Ukraine by Russia.
(There are more topical films, the list profiles IMDb entries.)
In February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine again, with the war and the occupation ongoing. Over 10M Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes, over 3M became refugees abroad, several localities completely destroyed. Around 150 children killed.
These events are being reflected in both documentaries and fictions, as yet another geopolitical crucifixion of Ukraine by Russia.
(There are more topical films, the list profiles IMDb entries.)
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- StarsVolodymyr ZelenskyyValerii Fedorovych ZaluzhnyiVitali Klitschko'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsMaria TomakBohdan YarychevskyYuriy YatsenkoTraveling to a neighbouring country, a remarkable young man becomes a political prisoner: his body and soul are put to test, manifesting the spirit of his nation.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsAnastasiaOleksandr TyschykOleksandr KolodyazhnyyA Ukraine's epic story about two families torn by war.
- DirectorAskold KurovStarsOleh SentsovVladimir PutinVictor YanukovichA documentary about Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea and sentenced to 20 years in prison on contrived charges.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsVladyslava GavryliukBoris UkrainskyLidia Golovataja"Passion" is a metaphorical story about a lady visited by the twin brother of her beloved: love turns into chaos, sin and atonement.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsValeriu AndriutaLiya AkhedzhakovaRoza KhayrullinaA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinStarsYuriy ChmelykVolodymyr DubovyiMykola LytvynenkoA story of the officers, soldiers and seamen who have not betrayed their oath of loyalty to the people of Ukraine during the takeover of Crimea. This is a film about a military honor, in the midst of undeclared war.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsVyacheslav BihunJustyn Bihun-SikorskyA documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.
- StarsAleksey GorbunovAkhtem SeitablaevBogdan YusipchukThe events of the series begin during Euromaidan, where the heroes found themselves on different sides of the barricades, and when the Russian intervention in Ukraine began, former opponents found themselves in the National Guard.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunA man decides whether to accept a call to protect his country's independence in a new war. Joining a special intelligence unit, he is testing his destiny with allies and enemies with a slight but sweet chance for reward.
- 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.
- DirectorIgor ParfenovStarsEllen SlusarchiAn epic drama about events in Maidan and the war in Ukraine. Maidan's shooting bothers an ex-activist - his friend was killed. Looking for the guilty he was captured with his friend by Field Commander "Ideologist" who has occupied the part of Ukraine and established his own rules there, lynches and does not obey the law. Hostages were taken as prisoners by the family of three brother-terrorists, who were trying to exchange them during 6 days. Otherwise they will be killed. But the sequence of the conflicts is tearing up the militant's family inside.
- DirectorIgor ParfenovThis epic film has three chapters 'The Lawlessness', 'The Revolution', 'The War' and tells about the man's destiny in Ukraine.
- 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.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyRussian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.
- DirectorElena VolochineJames KeoghOleg's Choice is a rare immersion into the private lives and thoughts of Russian combatants who have chosen to fight on the separatists side in Ukraine. Since the summer of 2014, thousands of young Russians poured into the Donbas region. Driven by Russian propaganda, they believed they were fulfilling their patriotic duty. Among the first wave of volunteers were Oleg and Max. Oleg was appointed deputy commander of a battalion, while Max became a soldier. Their illusions were shattered on the night of June 3rd 2015, when a battle went horribly wrong. While Oleg and Max continue to fight on the ground, they must also fight creeping doubts that they have that they ended up on the wrong side of the war. The film follows their introspection over the long term; the confession they have gone adrift, the search for meaning, the shock at realizing they have been misled - that they themselves have made mistakes to the frantic rhythm of a war that crushes bodies and reason. It is the story of the human face of a lie that confuses those involved. In this war rewritten by propaganda, where two parallel realities confront each other, they try in their own different ways to find a raison d'être. This is a human story on the borders of good and evil, where men are confronted by their own choices.
- DirectorMantas KvedaraviciusStarsMaryna ArkhipovaOleksandr BuliOleksandr DzhenchakoA man repairs his shing net and goes out to the bridge. Two trams run into each other - nobody is hurt and cables are xed the same day. A small concert is given for factory workers and the sincere performance of a violinist makes them cry. Bombs fall into the sea, no one notices.
- DirectorAlina GorlovaStarsOksana YakubovaWhat is left backstage of the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peaceful life, and where does the war stop?
- DirectorYevhen TitarenkoWar with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.
- DirectorNicholas RooneyStarsNicholas RooneyDocumentary Film 'The Pillars of Heaven' A young and disillusioned British diplomat abandons his diplomatic career, spends his own money, and risks his very life on a journey of faith and war in Ukraine. A country riven in pieces by indescribable events, sometimes called: an EU inspired and US -organised revolution, a Russian invasion, a civil war, a war of lies and misinformation, a war where thousands of people have died, and which created over a million refugees, and a war at the heart of Christendom which rips the very geopolitical foundations of Europe to shreds. With the Ukrainian people (including soldiers, military priests, peacekeepers, humanitarian aid workers, refugees, church leaders, politicians/ 'terrorists', ordinary families and everyday victims of the war) as his guide, his journey takes him from the idyllic Carpathian Mountains, to the golden cupolas in Kiev to the very heart of the hellish War-zone in Donetsk. He embarks on an odyssey from Christmas Eve to the Epiphany, searching for the soul of this troubled nation and for something which might help to bring a lasting end to the bloodshed and prevent a wider military confrontation between Russia and the West.
- DirectorAnastasiia StarozhitskaMariia StarozhitskaThe story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisOles SaninBREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
- DirectorDamian KolodiyA first person chronological portrait of the recent revolution in Ukraine escalating with a war with Russia that threatens global stability.
- DirectorTaras RybalchenkoLidiya HuzhvaStarsStanislav BoklanGeorgi FominLidiya HuzhvaTwo soldiers in the whirlpool of war. A woman and a wounded man. What is stronger, spirit or metal? The will to live or the quirks of fate? Everything is just beginning.
- DirectorErnes SarykhalilovStarsMaksym PasichnykMustafa DzhemilevMustafa Dzhemilev - who is he? According to Wikipedia, he's politician and public figure. However, what kind of spirit is hiding behind his legendary personality, confident pace and silent smile? Mustafa Dzhemilev's history is a symbol of peaceful resistance against injustice and discrimination in the post-Soviet region. In the future, the documentary about the great leader's life history will enables the viewers to rethink his way, which passed through the Soviet times, Ukrainian independence and the Crimea occupation. Documentary about Mustafa Dzhemilev will be a guide to the struggle for human rights and justice. Documentary film 'Mustafa' lasting 90 minutes, which shows the history of Mr. Dzhemilev's life, which includes his struggle for returning to Crimea from the exile places during the Soviet Union, the trial course against him in the USSR, his experience of over 15 years as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camps and his long hunger strike in human history. The film also features the return of Crimean Tatars to their motherland after the Soviet collapse. It shows Mr. Dzhemilev's struggle with the problem of the Crimea occupation in 2014.
- DirectorCyprien Clément-DelmasIgor KosenkoA young man and a veteran meet for the last time before the war will separate them.
- DirectorAnna LyubynetskaStarsSasha StelchenkoElena VatrushkinaRenata's brother is away at war. One day she gets a work assignment to take care of a young man who comes from the enemy's country.
- DirectorAlexei KaterynchukStarsViktor AndrushenkoVladimir SitnikWhen two Ukrainian soldiers of two opposite sides of the front of contemporary war find themselves in one house, there is much more at stake then just who is going to win.
- DirectorJan KobalThree years after the Ukrainian Maidan revolution, Ukraine's sovereignty still remains under threat from Russia. But the energy of the Maidan has since channeled itself into Kiev's cultural underground. Through a powerful rave and contemporary art scene, the youth of Kiev are taking things into their own hands in face of their own government's corruption and ineptitude.
- DirectorYuliia HontarukThis is a film about the people and a city lost in time and space. It's about the speed at which life can change and about things that remain constant no matter what. The film is based on the events that occurred after the shelling of the district of Skhidniy in the city of Mariupol on January 24, 2015. Shelling was carried our by pro-Russian militants from "GRAD" multiple launch rocket systems.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyThe search for a soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv takes protester Sashko to the front lines of Eastern Ukraine. There he meets Ivan, a Ukrainian volunteer harboring a secret that could undermine a fragile cease-fire.
- DirectorEvgeny StepanenkoDefense of Debaltseve. The brutal battle that unfolded in early 2015 and was completed on February 18-19, when the Ukrainian troops leaved bridgehead wich had surrounded. The truth about one of the bloodiest and controversial episodes of the war in Ukraine. Incredible stories of feats, facts of heroism and betrayal. Little-known details and evidence of participants in the events. The dark and terrible truth, true story about modern heroes.
- Seventy years ago Nikolai Myrnyi a war hero, was one of those who defended his country against the Nazi invasion. Today, his grandson Dima takes arms to protect his country from Grandfather's former allies. Dima Myrnyi (Ukr: peaceful) is a typical face of his generation - face that has never seen war before.
- "The city of the heroes" is a cycle of documentaries about Mariupol. The cycle gives a panoramic view on life of Mariupol in conditions of hybrid warfare in 2014-2016 years. Each film shows a separate part of Mariupol life (elections, self-defense, Minsk process etc.)
- DirectorMarysia NikitiukStarsSergei BrzhestovskySerhiy MalyuhaOleg PrimogenovOlga's husband were missing on the East Ukraine, in military events. In desperate to find him, Olga comes to the witches, who tell her that her husband died. Emotionally destroyed woman does not want to live without her beloved, the witches offered her to drink infusion of mandrake and "all will be forgotten and sorrow and life will pass." Olga is ready for everything only to subsided her emotional pain, but the ritual is going wrong, events of this world and after-world are woven into a tight knot, when it is impossible to separate life from death.
- DirectorAlexey Goncharuk
- DirectorChristina TynkevychStarsKristina TsukurKyiv, Ukraine, Spring 2015. The war with Russia is five hundred miles to the East, but since the revolution of 2013-14, every moment of Kristina's life has been affected by the conflict.
- DirectorIvan SyniepalovStarsPetro PoroshenkoThis short documentary made by Public television of Azov presents an overview of the events that took place in the port city of Mariupol in south-eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014. The story of liberation of Mariupol on 13th June, 2014, is told by participants of operation - from a regular soldier to President of Ukraine.
- DirectorChad GraciaStarsAndrei AlexandrovichFedor AlexandrovichIgor AlexandrovichA gripping, award-winning documentary about an irradiated Ukrainian artist's search for the truth about Chernobyl and his prescient and powerful warnings about Putin's plans for a coming Russian invasion.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyThe documentary introduces the viewer to the life story of Nadiya Savchenko, the details of her detention and trial, as well as the family of the Ukrainian pilot, her childhood and the people who supported her.
- DirectorAndriy KyryllovStarsSergey RadchenkoVita SmachelyukHe returns home in good health, but the mental scars of war aren't far below the surface. Nevertheless she does everything within her power to assist his readjustment to a life lived together.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsYuriy KuruczaOleksandr HavroshMyroslav TafiyThe first optimist and last WWII soldier of a 600-year-old Transcarpathian village, 91-year-old librarian and chess player Yuriy Kurucza carols his stories of life, amours and homeland.
- DirectorStanislav BytiutskyiThis is a story about people in love with cinema, and a country going through its most difficult times. A group of friends, who met sometime ago in a movie theatre, get together to see one of them off to Belgrade. So their journey begins: from personal memories to the remembrance of their country, out of a small dark room to the mystery of Kiev's night. Their last stop - the farewell party where reality and cinema once again become a single whole.
- DirectorNariman AlievStarsFevzi BilyalovRemzi BilyalovWhen it comes time to say goodbye.
- DirectorOleksandr NazarovAngelina KariakinaOlexander NazarovUkraine. Four internal displaced people struggle to make a new place feel like home.
- DirectorStefan BugrynWar Mothers is the story of three women: Galina, Svetlana, and Yulia. They live in the town of Zaporizhia, which is along the eastern front of the ongoing war in Ukraine. All three women are mothers, all three have felt the impacts of the war first hand, and all three have decided not to settle for the tragedy being dealt to themselves, to their country and it's people. They are mothers of war, they are War Mothers.
- DirectorDmitriy KhavinIn the aftermath of the Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution and violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian supporters in Odessa on May 2, Jewish residents of Odessa tell stories of their newly found patriotism and share their thoughts on how recent events have affected the community and the city.
- DirectorAnita Mathal HoplandJens LengerkeStarsAngela NikolauOn the Edge of Freedom is a film about being young and fearless in the conflict-ridden post-Soviet. We follow two young roofers who, with no safety measures, conquer the tallest buildings and the deepest abysses in Russia and Ukraine. There are certainly enough reasons to be afraid in today's Russia and Ukraine, but these young people have found their very own way to conquer fear with their death-defying stunts.
- DirectorPieter-Jan De PueSvetlana and Anatoli are the last remaining inhabitants of the destroyed village Pesky, located at the frontline in Eastern Ukraine. Despite the daily bombing, they don't want to abandone their honey bees, their only hope in the ongoing conflict.
- DirectorAdriana LuhovyHighly specialized Canadian Medical volunteers arrive at the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, they help make a difference in the lives of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, victims of Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine.
- DirectorEinar ThorStarsTimotej FesenkoOleg MingalevBoris ShveteA creative profile of the small Ukrainian city Mirgorod and its people. A peaceful place in a country at war.
- DirectorGeorg GenouxYelizaveta Smit13 adolescents from a school in Donbas which was destroyed during the war in Ukraine, and subsequently rebuilt, share themselves in front of the camera.
- 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.
- DirectorElliott CrawfordJohn TaylorStarsDima ThedobassDocumentary focusing on the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent downing of civilian airliner MH17. With access to both Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, the film offers a unique insight into this war on Europe's doorstep.
- DirectorSteve HooverStarsGennadiy MokhnenkoGennadiy calls himself "Pastor Crocodile." He's known throughout Ukraine for his years working to rehabilitate drug-addicted kids. But he's also a vigilante who uses any force necessary to carry out his moral vision. Gennadiy believes he has made Mariupol a better place, but now, the violence in Ukraine threatens everything.
- 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.
- DirectorBryan FogelStarsBryan FogelDave ZabriskieDon CatlinWhen Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.
- DirectorOlya SchechterA story of a sniper fighting for the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
- DirectorDmitriy KhavinIn the aftermath of the Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution and violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian supporters in Odessa on May 2, Jewish residents of Odessa tell stories of their newly found patriotism and share their thoughts on how recent events have affected the community and the city.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsMantas JanciauskasLyja MaknaviciuteAndrzej ChyraRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.
- 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.
- DirectorTymur YashchenkoStarsDmitriy SovaEvgeniy LamakhRoman SemysalThe crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
- 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.
- DirectorEugenia MelnikThey want everybody to know about them. They want everybody to remember that there are violent fighting in our country. They want to be heard. They don't want another people to feel the same.
- DirectorStanislav TsekhmistrenkoA 40-minute documentary "The Limits of Waiting" relates the stories of people from Crimea and Donbas who went missing as a result of the military conflict in the east of Ukraine. The documentary follows two families affected by Russia's military aggression: the family of a Crimean activist who was abducted on the eve of the annexation of Crimea, and a mother from Lutsk whose two sons, volunteers in the Aidar Battalion, disappeared at the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine's East. Both stories reflect the fate of many Ukrainian families who have lost their homes, loved ones, and a sense of security since early 2014 when Crimea was annexed by Russia and the Donbas was disrupted by Russia-supported separatists and elements of the Russian Army.
- DirectorMaria StoianovaStarsZoya LaktionovaZinaida ObunivskaThe film is the video diary of a Ukrainian mother who lives in Mariupol, a city at the forefront of the armed conflict. A series of her private records form a loving visual message for her daughter in distant Kyiv.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
- DirectorJulia TamturaStarsVadym KovaliovAnatoliy MarempolskiyAnd that moment will become crucial for him.
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinA short form documentary about five ordinary Ukrainians who were taken hostage in occupied Luhansk.
- DirectorMasha KondakovaWhen war came to their home, thousands of Ukrainian women took it upon themselves to become soldiers and lay their lives on the line for peace and freedom in their country. This feature documentary follows three of those women and the lives they never expected to lead.
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsOleg ShulgaYuliya ChepurkoSergey LeforIn the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Sayenko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsOleksandr MerezhkoOleksandr BatanovVyacheslav BihunA motivational drama about the first candidate for the newly formed Anti-Corruption Court who returns to Ukraine, known as the most corrupt continental state in Europe, to probe himself and the system by participating in the contest.
- DirectorAndrii IvaniukStarsBogdan BenyukAnatoliy MaksymiyukThis is a portrait of a man, for whom the war in Eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of the Donbas, a man of about forty-five, a family guy, an ordinary worker. Director is a young man of about twenty-six, single, a west-man, coming from the intelligentsia. This is the usual day of the ordinary military. These are events and people whom you can meet there. This is the relationship between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience but also a kind of cultural exchange between different social strata and communities. This is the birth of new, special traditions.
- DirectorDmitriy AvdeevStarsValentyna AntufyevaYeva KharunovaOlena KhokhlatkinaIn this story of a family from a small town in the front zone of the Donbas, a son is worried about his mother, who is tied fast to her small homeland. This is a story about searching for a home and a homeland in your soul and in your heart.
- DirectorSerhiy MorgunovStarsYevgen BogutskiyYevgen BondarAndriy BoykoThe film is a series of interviews with veterans and soldiers. The characters share their life experiences and talk about the difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life.
- DirectorAlina GorlovaSvitlana LishchynskaIryna TsilykStarsOlena BilozerskaYulia MatvienkoYulia PaievskaDespite the stereotypes, the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine involves Ukrainian women too. The "Invisible Battalion" will show the world the role of women in the war.
- DirectorCristian Jereghi
- DirectorDaria OnyshchenkoStarsMaryna KoshkinaVasiliy KukharskiyDanylo KamenskyiA Ukrainian language schoolteacher and a rebellious teenage student, both from the eastern city of Luhansk, fall for each other during the tumultuous time of the city's occupation by pro-Russian separatists.
- DirectorKornii HrytsiukStarsKornii HrytsiukTasia Pugach"The Train: Kyiv - War" is a full-length documentary film directed by Korniy Gricyuk. The dramatic history of the Kyiv-Kostyantynivka train, with its passengers' unique fates, pain, memories, secrets, hopes, is a history of today Ukraine. Only 12.5 hours away from peaceful Kyiv is Kostyantynivka, a small industrial city in the eastern part of the country, immediately after which the front begins. This entire time people with different characters, social status, political views, and beliefs are traveling on the train side by side. They talk, debate, even quarrel, but speak to each other and go in a common direction. And what's important, they all want to get to peace. This film is the voice of ordinary people, the search for dialogue and the path to a common future, where everyone's voice will be heard.
- 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.
- DirectorSerhiy LysenkoBrief stories from the Russian-Ukrainian war, collected by three volunteers who have been travelling along the frontline with humanitarian cargoes for more than four years.
- DirectorLidiya HuzhvaOne night in the life of a combat post in the village of Pisky, Ukraine.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRoxy ToporowychStarsDariya BarikhashviliVictoriia KopotBogdan RevkevichA student activist in Ukraine finds herself falling for a soldier.
- DirectorStefan BugrynAs her country goes to war, 18 year old Yana puts aside her dreams of becoming a doctor, and creates a national movement that almost costs her life.
- DirectorPiotr ArmianovskiDuring the war people of Avdiivka make museum again - a place where the strangest ideas come to life.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksandr StekolenkoStarsRita BurkovskaVasiliy KukharskiyDmytro YaroshenkoIs a dramatic story about contemporary Ukrainian society. The protagonist of the film is a 40-year-old man who is considered to be dead. He returns to his home town to restore his documents. However, his return turns out impossible.
- DirectorSeraphim KusakinStarsBogdan BuylukIllia ChastilovKirill DanchukThe armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine continues to this day. The guy from the front-line town is drafted into the army, but he wants to hold a camera in his hands, not an assault rifle. Especially against their fellow countrymen. How does a war alien to modern man suddenly become a reality? How does war affect friendship and love? And do we have hope?
- DirectorVolodymyr AntonovStarsVolodymyr Antonov
- DirectorRoman LiubyiStarsAnastasiia AnykevychBridget FiskeSofiya GakhAn investigation into the circumstances surrounding the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
- DirectorNatalya VorozhbitStarsIgor KoltovskyyAndrey LelyukhVolodymyr HurinFour short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
- DirectorHaiane DzhahinianMichel LadesAre dramatic events in Ukraine somehow affecting the life of these 11-year old cadets from Kyiv cadet corps? Are they already dreaming of a future military career? Do they manage to remain kids and enjoy their childhood despite the war in Ukraine? The authors of this film try to give an honest answer on these and other questions.
- DirectorVolodymyr BakumStarsLesia LypchukEvgeniy LamakhOleg Shcherbina2014. East of Ukraine. Military conflict and the death of their father brings the two brothers back home. Grieving mother tries to hide the truth about one of her child (Bohdan) from another son (Stanislav). Everything would go well, if not for the military mercenaries who come after Bohdan life.
- DirectorYegor TroyanovskyThe film investigates the kidnapping and alleged murder of a young Ukrainian soldier in the Donbas region in 2014. His father, an elderly fisherman from the south of Ukraine, follows the trail of his capturers. Traveling from the calm Azov coastline to industrial conglomerates, and then from the furious mining region to the sleepless capital, the father tries to find witnesses of the young soldier's last hours and minutes, as well as those who could see him dead or alive. When the testimonies are inconsistent, when the lawyers don't show up in courts, when you take one step forward and two steps back, all that remains to the father is to take the justice into his own hands.
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