Ukrainian Films 2022 - TOP & FLOP
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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.
- DirectorSergei MaslobojshchikovStarsKhrystyna FedorakAlla SergiykoA confessional story of two women - a mother and a girlfriend of a young man who was shot in 2014 in Maidan. Through this relationship it turns out that there is a direct dependency between the path of one of them and the young man's death
- DirectorOlga RyashinaStarsIvan BlindarVolodymyr GevaMaria StopnykA feature-length film based on the story "Me, a Pobeda and Berlin" by the legendary Ukrainian musician Kuzma Scryabin.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorAnna KorzhStarsDakhaBrakhaVlad TroitskiyFrom ancient folk songs to Ukrainian resistance: the legacy of the Ukrainian spirit as told by the band DakhaBrakha.
- DirectorTaras DronStarsIryna OstrovskaOleksandr BashkirovDaryna FedynaThe life of ambitious architect Victoria changes after her daughter disappears, accused of drug trafficking. Victoria launches her own investigation and tries to prove her daughter's innocence and avoid losing an important project.
- DirectorChristina TynkevychStarsAleksey CherevatenkoYurii FelipenkoAnastasiya KarpenkoAnna has just taken on a mortgage in dreams of a better life with her daughter Katia. Instead, a turn of events makes Anna face a dilemma that will change her personal moral borders in a society that hasn't got any.
- DirectorVasyl MoskalenkoStarsChloé BooyensKseniya MishinaVasyl MoskalenkoAn archaeologist travels to Chernobyl to find her missing brother, only to find something far more sinister within the abandon city walls.
- DirectorNovruz HikmetOlena PodoliankoStarsLyudmyla ChyrkovaMaksym ShlenchakDocufiction about a young couple what are torn from the world for one long night in a hotel room in a town near the border. That night they agreed not to talk about the war. Completely lost in each other' s small world, they don't realize when the morning comes and force them to go back to reality.
- DirectorEva DzhyshyashviliHannusia puts the burden of farming in the Carpathian Mountains on herself after Dmytro, her husband of 30 years, losses his leg defending independence of modern Ukraine. Their grandchildren of 6 and 3 years old help them too.
- DirectorIhor IvankoA young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting.
- 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.
- DirectorAleksey ShemesStarsAnna AdamovychAndrei NikitinskikhAleksei ShemiesThe crime story of the rescue of a 17-year-old girl Sasha, when she escapes from her lover and an authoritarian father, who both want her to get rid of pregnancy.
- DirectorAndriy ZayetsStarsVitalina BiblivTetiana DzyubinskaVitaly IvanovetsThe story of the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the eyes of a volunteer from Kamianets-Podilskyi and a female volunteer who ended up in occupied Mariupol.
- DirectorZoya LaktionovaDirector Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. Her documentary essay interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.
- DirectorMaksym NakonechnyiStarsRita BurkovskaValivots LiubomyrMyroslava Vytrykhovska-MakarReturning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?
- DirectorDmitry BaderaStarsNikolay DranovskiyAlexander KovbasyukAn agoraphobic man has to overcome his fears in order to go outside and meet a woman in time.
- DirectorYelyzaveta TatarinovaKherson is a city occupied by Russian troops from the first days of the war. Russian propaganda tries to create a picture of "peaceful life" in the south of Ukraine, but in reality Russia kidnaps and tortures people, keeps Kherson people in informational isolation, and does not allow them to leave the occupied region. However, Kherson resists.
- DirectorDmytro HreshkoWhile the whole world has stopped during the coronavirus pandemic, the residents of the Kolochava Transcarpathian mountain village are living their normal lives. Only ambulance workers know what is really going on.
- DirectorTaras TomenkoNastya was ten when a missile fired by Russian terrorists on New Year's Eve changed her life forever. It took her father's life and destroyed their house. Nastya's school is only in 500 meters from the front line. War has become commonplace. Just a part of the landscape. The only means for Nastya's family to survive is the scrap metal they scavenge while under fire. Senya is seven years old. He is a first-grader. In the seven years of his life, he has seen seven years of war and not a day of peace. Senya likes to climb on the boney pile to watch the sunset. His stepfather dig graves to earn money for a new suit and backpack for Senya. This is a film about the children who live in the war zone in Ukraine.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsAndriy HoldiyOrest VoytekhivskiyRoman SovaIn Western Ukraine, sculptors who used to make religious statues retrain to fight the Russian invasion.
- DirectorRoman KhimeiYarema MalashchukThe documentary short depicts modern Kolomyia, where the cult of Austria-Hungary coexists with the post-Soviet reality: the developer hires a team of builders who, with thrift, brick by brick, dismantle old and uninhabitable real estate. Meanwhile, the artists invite fifteen-year-old Maksym to draw a walking route in Kolomyia: through the guide's narration, the map of the city is transformed into a multi-layered historical palimpsest, where Soviet names are mixed with modern urban folklore and traditional Western Ukrainian piety, and "dog paths" are manifested by official intonation.
- DirectorOleksandr HoisanDue to long-term observation of the NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) the player witnesses certain documentary events that take place in different parts of the in-game world. However, these events are permeated by common cross-cutting themes: excessive cruelty and human indifference. To some extent the constant movement (which also accompanies the player-observer throughout the in-game space) is the only salvation from arbitrariness on the streets, but not always.
- DirectorOleh BorshchevskyiStarsAram ArzumanyanKateryna FainYuriy GorbunovThe Seredyuk family finally found peace: all the loud weddings are over, and the annoying neighbour Taras has disappeared, unable to withstand the family's oppression. So Vasyl and Halyna can finally spend more time with each other. But their harmony is interrupted by their neighbor Oksana, who came from the resort with a new husband. He turned out to be a former classmate of Vasyl Seredyuk, who had bothered him all his school years. Since then, a new confrontation begins.
- DirectorRoman PerfilyevStarsJustin BensonTom BensonMelinda CasperAfter buying a rare shotgun, the gun collector deals with unexplainable events that threaten his life.
- DirectorNataliya IlchukArchival film about frivolous Ukrainian youth set against the backdrop of political precarity in parallel with a search of one's identity and of true love. The occasional freeze frames that occure in this uncensored footage hint at a desire to stop the time before the irreversible events will happen.
- 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.
- DirectorKornii HrytsiukThe investigative documentary Eurodonbas aims to debunk Soviet myths and bring to light that more than 100 years ago, Donbas was an integral part of the European economy.
- 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.
- DirectorKateryna HolovkoStarsGalina KorneevaKostyantyn OstrovskyyOlga SafronovaPost-war Germany, early 1920s. A young antiquary visits a collector, wanting to buy some valuable prints from him. It turns out that the collector is a blind elderly man. Hearing the name of the antique shop he happily greets his guest, who is ready to show him everything he has. However, his collection does not look like what the antiquarian expected. Based on the novella by Stefan Zweig.
- DirectorMarian BushanStarsPavlo AldoshynMaryna KoshkinaAndrey MostrenkoAfter suffering a tragedy at the hand of invading soldiers in Donbas, an Ukrainian physics teacher seeks revenge. He sets his sights on an elite Russian sniper whose elimination could change the tide of the conflict.
- 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.
- DirectorOlga ArtushevskaStarsOleksandr YaremaRimma ZyubinaOleksiy AnanovOne morning Valera wakes up as a people's hero, but the problem is that he can't remember anything.
- DirectorOleg KarpenkoStarsRob FeldmanAlan BurgonOlga Safronova1889. A family of two has a brief stop for lunch out in the open far from any settlements. They meet a stranger, who lost his horse and now looks for directions. But it seems that directions are not the only thing he is looking for.
- 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.
- DirectorMarta SmerechynskaMarta, the film's director, faces her fears and digs into the realm of her estranged sister Nastia, a Greek-Catholic nun, to re-evaluate the world they both were brought up in.
- DirectorVladyslav KlimchukStarsDarya PetrozhitskaElias ReichertAlina ChebanFour adventures about different kinds of love are intertwined: romantic, familial, brotherly, and that tender teenage type. These are the stories of strangers colliding during the most unforgettable weekend of their lives.
- DirectorOleg ZborovskyStarsInna BelokonAlex BerezovskyiAndrey DanilkoThe comedy plot unfolds around two totally different families: the Drahomanov working in culture and the Nalyvaychenko who are local businessmen. On a spring weekend they decide to go for a traditional open-air barbecue and by virtue of destiny arrive at the same clearing each family considers theirs. A quarrel starts between them, quickly transforming into a grotesque war for a barbecue spot. Unexpectedly, a third claimant for the territory arrives; this is a bribe taker on the run who hid his money in this same clearing and takes the youngest children from both family's hostage, demanding to give back the money that disappeared from the hideout. Tricks, frame ups and oppositions, adventures, unexpected guests and crazy money, different views not only on barbecue marinade recipes but also on the right ways to live. This is a story telling us that no matter how different we are and how much we quarrel, we are always a united, powerful force in the face of a common threat.
- DirectorMarkiian MiroshnychenkoStarsBohdan AdamenkoMikhail AugustBogdan BenyukIn the interweaving of five stories, the New Year's magician himself ceases to believe in miracles, because burdened with life and immersed in work, people completely forget about the holiday. He takes serious action and sells his suit to a simple guy who has long since lost his sense of "New Year's magic". By leaving his position as a magician, Santa deprives people not only of a festive mood, but also of snow that could contribute to this. But contrary to his views on the hopelessness of the modern generation, people notice the changes and become the creators of a real New Year's miracle on their own.
- DirectorDmytro GolumbevskyiStarsGeorgiy DelievViktoria MaremukhaInna PrikhodkoThe town of Kahaplyk will soon have a full "haplyk" (aka "hook"): elections again, a corrupt mayor again, the same thing again - Five Instagram stars are coming to fix the "mayor's reputation". They will be waiting for adventures "for the whole head", a real conspiracy and, of course, a story of true love.
- DirectorNatalia PasenytskaStarsKseniya MishinaArtemiy EgorovAleks KomarovskiiAn ardent bachelor Petro pledges with his best friend Oleh on the "Porsche", which will be able to live for a month under one roof with a woman. So Veronika appears in his loft - an elegant music teacher, Oleh's younger sister, whom Petro has known since childhood. She left her husband, a tyrant, and for the next month was busy looking for work and a new home. But a surprise for Petro is the appearance in his house - children of Veronika, thugs, sophomores, who turn the life of a macho upside down.
- DirectorMax BalterStarsArtem ChudnivetsKhrystyna IhnatKira PodolskayaThe family is preparing to celebrate Christmas, but things didn't go according to plan. Dad clumsily installed a Christmas tree and this led to a quarrel between parents. The daughter understands that as long as the parents quarrel, the holiday will not take place. After all, Christmas gifts appear only under a decorated Christmas tree. But the little girl has no idea how to reconcile her parents, who do not pay attention to her, immersed in finding out their own relationship. Her best friend comes to her aid - an Alpaca toy, which creates a whole plan to restore the festive mood.
- DirectorAnton KurzaStarsDmytro GordonAnton KurzaAndrii KaplunA mental institution patient is pursuing his ambition to become the greatest psychologist, while a mysterious cult wants to use his talent to take control over the city.
- DirectorSerhii ShliakhtiukStarsDaniel SalemArsen MirzoyanOlha SumskaIgor is a cynical, brutal but successful wedding planer, he doesn't believe in love and romance, until he gets an order from one couple, which radically changes his life .
- DirectorBoris KvashnevStarsZaza ChanturiyaBoris GeorgievskiyIrakli MaruashviliAt the heart of the film is the story of a young talented artist Kiril, in whose fate persistently puts a weapon in his hand instead of a brush. Demanding from him the life of a warrior, not a painter.
- DirectorSerhii ZeinalovStarsYurii GromoviyLarisa KadochnikovaIrina SoponaruPensioner Halyna has been having memory problems due to Alzheimer's disease for the last few years. That is why her son Alexander shows excessive care and forbids his mother to leave the house. She has long since come to terms with home isolation, but once a year she just needs to leave the house. And this day is a meeting of classmates, where Halyna hopes to meet her school love. Her son tries to prevent this, because every time there are some problems with the old woman. The ingenious pensioner goes to various tricks to get to school in the evening in any way. She expects to meet there with her school love Gennady, who ignored all the previous 60 meetings of classmates. But Halyna is sure that this time the love, endured for decades, will still visit the annual event.
- DirectorSieva DiamantakosStarsAnna SerheivaSergey Sevidov"And They Will Talk About Us" is a documentary about two people, a military tourism entrepreneur and an artist and humanitarian volunteer, struggling to succeed and survive in post-Maidan revolution Ukraine.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunA short metaphor about the search for harmony in a mountain river.
- DirectorLesia DiakThe Ukrainian veteran who returns home burnt out and traumatized from war but hoping to find peace for himself and his family
- DirectorBogdan ZheliezniakStarsAnton DmytrukIskander DolgorukovAnfisa KolenkoTwo mirror situations: telephone conversation of a Russian soldier with his mother, and a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who also communicates with his own, during the Russian military aggression. Why is there such a huge gulf between our people and their people? Perhaps the answer to this question lies in the difference in relationship with mothers.
- DirectorAlexander ZhovnaStarsOksana Burlay-PiterovaMilena KompaniietsDmitry NizhelskyA shocking murder that shook Soviet society in the seventies and exposed the reverse side of Soviet morality.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsIvan ChendejIvan Kostiantynovych ChendejMariya ChendejA cinematic journey to places of power and destiny of the screenwriter of the legendary Ukrainian film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
- DirectorYuliia HontarukDmytro 'Orest' KozatskyiStarsDmytro 'Orest' KozatskyiDmytro Kozatsky with the call sign "Orest", head of the press service of the Azov Battalion (Azov Regiment), has been at the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal since the beginning of the siege of Mariupol by the Russian military after their invasion of Ukraine. On the eve of his exit from the shattered factory, he made a farewell film.
- DirectorSergii DmytrenkoStarsValerii AnanievOleksandr PolozhynskyiYanina SokolovaThis is an incredible story of Valerii Markus (Valerii Ananiev), a paratrooper of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a veteran of the Anti-Terrorist Operation, a blogger, traveler and author of the bestseller book "Footprints on the Road". To somehow structure in his mind the three years he spent in the war, Valerii Markus leaves Paris for the Way of El Camino de Santiago. But will the paratrooper find peace by following the legendary path of the pilgrims? What changes will Valerii get after all that he has gone through and why is he being drawn to another long journey again and again?
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunA sensual look at life of the symbol of vitality, wealth and social status.
- DirectorAleksandr AvsharovSerhii KastornykhThe protagonist of the film is a psychologist, who faces a difficult task: to return demobilized soldiers to a normal peaceful life and help them socialize. By healing their souls, he does much more than help each patient personally. It helps millions of civilians to accept into society those who consider themselves exiles. Through the prism of the protagonist, we show the life and difficulties faced by soldiers returning home from the front. We will experience all the victories and failures of the protagonist and his wards.
- DirectorArkadiy NepytaliukStarsIrina MakRuslan MiroshnychenkoOleg StefanAugust 19, 1991. USSR. Moscow is filled with rallies, barricades and tanks. But a summer school camp on the South is living its own life.
- DirectorAnna MaliszewskaStarsEryk LubosKlaudia KurakPolina GromovaA lonely dad, facing the sudden death of a Ukrainian babysitter, takes his daughter and her friend on a journey by the truck. Will trucker and two scamp girls handle the transport of frozen fish, body smuggling and life without a home?
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinStarsRoman KulishDuring the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the spring of 2022, Russian troops occupied the suburbs of the capital for more than a month. This film is dedicated to the educators of the Kyiv region, who did not despair even under shelling, enemy control, and the constant threat to their lives. The viewer will travel through the educational institutions of Hostomel, Irpin, Bucha and Vorzel, to become acquainted with those, who hold, and will be holding in their hands the future of our country.
- DirectorAleksandr TimenkoStarsEvgeniy SinchukovMaxim AsadchiySemyon GorovA documentary film about the rise of Ukrainian cinema both at the national level and on the international stage.
- DirectorMaksim LitvinovIt follows the people who spent the first month of the invasion in the city of Mariupol.
- DirectorRostyslav GarbarA school-boy goes to a magic land full of mysterious creatures to save lives of his friends who were transported there because of his resentment for them and his desire for revenge.
- DirectorYelyzaveta TatarinovaMariupol - ruined but not conquered. The city in the east of Ukraine, with almost half a million people, has survived the occupation, total destruction, and a humanitarian catastrophe. The occupiers were murdering civilians, preventing them from escaping. In this film - the story of the survivors, their life in hell, and ultimately - salvation.
- DirectorMykhailo TkachThe short documentary was edited from video footage of Russian military phone Lieutenant Yuri Shalayev. He is a graduate of the Moscow Higher Command School, commander of the motorized infantry platoon of military unit 71718, stationed in Chechnya, and a representative of the Russian infantry elite. This is a film-essay about how he lived and served in Russia before the "military special operation". How he came to Ukraine to fight. And how, in the end, the war ended for him as a prisoner.
- DirectorNadia ParfanA full-scale invasion found the Kyiv director in a small Bedouin village in the Middle East. It was warm, safe, and unbearably far from home. Once the director had a prophetic dream. She decided to return to Kyiv, still the hostilities were unfolding. Despite the condemnation of relatives and the long journey, she finally managed to cross the threshold of her home. But the house itself has now become forever different.
- DirectorEva StrelnikovaStarsEkaterina KistenOleksandr RudynskyyAnton SkrypetsDuring the war, a small boy calls the laptop of his missing dad, but it happens to be at a volunteer girl's. The boy asks her to find his parents. But to save the boy's family, she has to risk the lives of her loved ones.
- DirectorNatalya VorozhbitStarsMaryna KlimovaAlice KuzmychTobias OfenbauerA traumatic experience of the mother and daughter who were forced to leave Ukraine for Europe after the Russian invasion.
- DirectorVolodymyr SidkoStarsDenys KazanskiiSince the very beginning of Ukrainian independence, Russian propaganda has deceived the miners of Donbass. They were told that the entire economy of Ukraine is surviving just due to their work, and if they separate from Ukraine, all the money from the sold coal will remain in the Donbass. In fact, all mines were unprofitable and survived on subsidies. So when Russia held a referendum for the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics in the occupied part of Donbass in 2014, miners gladly supported it. However, it has become clear that Russia is not interested in the development of mines. Russia has started to rob mines and fire workers. The film tells in detail why the miners believed the propaganda, how Russians looted the mines and mocked the miners, and what the economic consequences of the conflict were.
- DirectorAlina MaksimenkoSet during the pandemic, the story unfolds in the family home of two women, a mother and her adult daughter. In one part of the house is the mother's music school, which she runs online. She is a piano teacher, a strong and organized woman who only has contact with her students, and therefore has an endless sea of children around her. The other part of the building houses the daughter's painting studio. The two worlds rarely come into contact with one another, constituting a metaphor for human loneliness. Ultimately, however, the protagonists are brought together by the story of the death of Katia, the daughter of their friend Inna.
- DirectorMaksym SmetanaStarsOksana BoikoNikon FedotovMykola IvanovA documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian poet and philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda. The film contains restoration staged episodes and interviews with experts. The film has four story-lines: the first is a journey of two Mohilian students Marichka and Bohdan to places associated with the philosopher; the second consisted of a series of conversations with leading Ukrainian intellectuals, researchers of the thinker's heritage, musicians, artists, artists; the third is Ukrainian nature, picturesque landscapes that were of great importance for the philosopher; the fourth was war. The tricentenary of Skovoroda fell at the time of full-scale Russian aggression.
- DirectorOleksandra PletenetskaThis is a video diary of my feelings, in which I documented my emotional stages during the full-scale invasion of my country - Ukraine.
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevWell-known Ukrainian volunteer Vasyl Voronovkyi is handing over equipment from the Canadian fire brigade to the State Emergency Service garrison in the town of Makariv, Kyiv region, which was under Russian occupation. Apart from that, the garrison needs to rebuild part of its premises after being shelled by Russians. Vasyl takes his friends - the film crew - and takes on training with the garrison to become its member. He will complete a hardcore training and experience challenges and adventures, fight the elements, fires, and the consequences of the war, which is not over yet and will be witness to the life stories of department members who continue their life in a dilapidated city after the occupation.
- DirectorVira YakovenkoStarsKsenya BashaValivots LiubomyrNina NabokaAfter the downing of the Ukrainian plane, the crew members find themselves in the occupied territory of Donbas and are forced to get out of there alone, for which they will have to turn the "double Immelmann" with their lives. The mother of one of the crew members, who is trying to help her son escape from captivity.
- DirectorTaras Tkachenko
- DirectorSzymon GoneraThis is a moving feature-length documentary full of empathy, sincerity and determination, in the fight for a better tomorrow. It presents the remarkable stories of people struggling to cope with the daily cruelty of war in Ukraine.
- DirectorRuslan BatytskyiTetiana BuialoDmytro BurkoThe kaleidoscope of stories shines a light on Ukrainians bravely defending their land against the Russian invasion, where millions struggle for their right to exist. A compendium of short films, this is highlights the full tragedy that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It charts the course of the Russian progression across the country through the lives and communities of those affected by the wide-scale aggression, alongside those fighting for their land. The film details the force of the assault, but its primary focus lies with the strength of the communities that have had to endure unimaginable hardships but who remain resilient in the face of such oppression. It joins an increasing number of ground-level films documenting the reality of this modern tragedy.
- StarsBogdan BenyukOlha SumskaViktor ZhdanovThe classic story about the relationship between parents and children told in a modern way, because many problems are as relevant today as in the nineteenth century. According to the plot of the miniseries, after returning home from Harvard, the girl Sonya tries to understand the methods of work of a famous and influential father and discovers many unpleasant things. Raised in love and respect for her parents, she does not immediately dare to go against the interests of her father. However, in the end he comes into open confrontation with him and will fight for justice. Her conflict with Terentiy Puzyr is deepened by the fact that Sonya does not accept the imposed fiancé, who was chosen for her without her consent. Instead, Terentiy Puzyr, a modern dollar multimillionaire, owner of an agricultural holding, considers himself the "master" of the region and human destinies. He manipulates and intimidates people because he seeks to maintain his influence and increase his wealth, and stubbornly continues to be faithful to his old approaches, despite the changing world around him. Terentiy Puzyr does not notice that he is surrounded by the same unscrupulous people as himself, who are ready to betray him at any moment.
- DirectorVyacheslav TuryanytsyaStarsRoland MishkoOlena KurtaIryna HryshakEven despite the terrible events associated with Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, people continue to live showing their fortitude - For example, Kharkiv Music Fest did happen.
- DirectorKyrylo ZemlyanyiStarsAlbina SotnikovaOleksandr NorchukYanush YukhnytskyyA family celebrates the birthday of their son. After a warm birthday greeting, their usual feast takes place.
- DirectorOlena SiyatovskaThe story of Michelle - a young transgender girl with big hopes and dreams. We follow her as she returns home to family in rural Ukraine from the big city.
- DirectorYuriy DvizhonIryna Farion. Made of the Ukrainian Nationalism is a documentary film about one of the most famous and scandalous Ukrainian ex-politicians, who is also linguist and philologist - Iryna Farion. Through the heroine's personal story, it briefly explains what nationalism is, who Stepan Bandera is, and revolves around the theme of national identity. The filming took place in Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk in May and June 2022.
- DirectorArtur LermanFilm reconstruction of five real stories about the heroic deeds of the residents of Kyiv region during the Russian occupation. A story about those who heroically and selflessly saved tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.
- DirectorKateryna LesykStarsAnastasiya PustovitOleksandr YatsenkoPolina VasylynaAt the disco Andriy, an 18-year-old boy, meets his classmate Zhenya, who moved away from their provincial town a few years earlier. When Zhenya disappears, all suspicion falls on Andriy who returns home in his friend's sneakers. Zhenya's father, a local criminal authority, independently begins the search for his son.
- DirectorNikita ZarkhStarsArsen GorunovDenys ShatskyiEvgeniy TimoshenkoLeva, a kind-hearted young poet, lives and works at a construction site on the outskirts of a city. He dreams of moving to the city, where he wants to enrol in the university. Leva develops feelings towards one of his workmates, but keeps them to himself. Until he starts to believe the affection might be mutual.
- DirectorVolodymyr SidkoStarsKostiantyn AfanasievNazar BorushokPavlo Dovhan-LevytskyiThi 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 meets in a dream a Ukrainian warrior who comes to Nazar from the last century. Or maybe it was not a dream?
- DirectorAnna YereskoSlavik is a young Kharkiv ceramist who often works with naked models while creating his sculptures. He is a Pentecostal believer and faces rejection of his work by the religious community to which he belongs. He decides to find out if his art is a sin. He meets several priests of different confessions, artists and the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine to find out where the moral line is between temptation and creativity. Furthermore, he decides to create a sculpture of a blind girl being blindfolded himself in order "not to be tempted" by the body of the model.
- DirectorAnna MorozovaStarsIvan SharanRob FeldmanYakov TkachenkoOn the eve of Easter, an icon depicting the Ethiopian Mother of God enters a Ukrainian village. After the icon is noticed by regular parishioners, a conflict begins between the young priest and his flock. Peasants do not agree to have a dark-skinned Mother of God in the church. One night someone makes his way to the church and cuts the icon. After the night events, the icon begins to pour myrrh.
- DirectorAndrii IvaniukStarsKonstantin PopudrenkoAleksandr VilkovUkraine. February 24, 2022. Morning 4:30. Two brothers meet to discuss a new scam. The younger brother wants to make business in a war. But the older brother thinks this idea awful. While they are arguing, they are informed that the bombing of the city has begun. They hide in the toilet and forget about their ideas of doing business in the war. Terrible destructive war begins.
- DirectorAndrea MagnaniStarsAdriano TardioloGiovanni CalcagnoNina NabokaAs the son of two inmates Hyacinth was always more at home in prison than in the outside world, until he took part in a foot race that promised to change his life.
- DirectorVyacheslav Bihun"Ichthus" is a metaphor for human life inspired by observation on fish, a symbol of health and faith.
- DirectorVyacheslav Bihun"Mariupol on Fire" is a collection of one-minute 9:16 witness films about Mariupol during the 2022 war in Ukraine as a part of series "Ukraine on Fire 2".
- DirectorStanislav PuzdriakRoman, 20-year-old Ukrainian warrior who lost a hand and a leg while defending Mariupol in April 2022. Wounded, Roman was captured by the Russians and spent three weeks in prison before being exchanged.
- DirectorMaksym LukashovNikita taught clarinet, saxophone and conducting at the Chernihiv Music College. When the Russians started shelling his native Chernihiv, he stopped playing music and instead became a volunteer delivering targeted humanitarian aid. Volunteering and traditional Chinese tea drinking - helps him keep his psyche in balance. But is something capable of bringing music back into his life?
- DirectorValeria KalchenkoStarsMaria BruniOleksandra Ferenets
- DirectorAndriy ZayetsAn anthology of short documentaries combined into a single full-length documentary from the international journalistic project with the same title about the war in Ukraine, which consists of documentaries, interviews and special stories about volunteers, journalists, artists, soldiers and artists of the "Cultural Front" of the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, who have been working in their place since the first hours of the Russian invasion for the sake of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine.
- DirectorMyroslava KlochkoAnatoliy TatarenkoStarsAndrii BondarenkoNoah Birksted-BreenAs Russian troops were crossing into Ukraine, Andrii Bondarenko wrote a play that looks back on a life bookended by conflict. Two weeks after Russia invaded his country, acclaimed playwright Bondarenko focused on the life he has lived. A peaceful childhood had followed bloodshed. And now, in adulthood, he faced the threat that previous generations of his family had witnessed. These thoughts took form in a one-act play, written in response to events as they were unfolding. To accompany this filmed version of the play, directors Myro Klochko and Anatoliy Tatarenko draws on photographs from Bondarenko's life, conjuring up the people who have populated it and, by extension, the people of Ukraine. The result is an act of artistic expression, of remembrance and, ultimately, of resistance.