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- "American Dream: In Search of the Truth" is the continuation on the lives of Ukrainian immigrants living overseas. In the film, viewers will learn about the stories of eight Ukrainians who had left their homeland and moved overseas in the pursuit of success. The film features singer Mika Newton, Hollywood actress Tetyana Rodyna, Major League Soccer champion Dmytro Kovalenko, famous doctor Yuriy Melnyk, Twitter programmer Arsen Kostenko, inventor Vadym Chalenko, Columbia University professor Yuriy Shevchuk, and sports lawyer Olena Zhyrnova. "This documentary makes you think and one of its goals is to have Ukrainians look around and open their eyes," comments producer and director Volodymyr Mula. "Why didn't your neighbor make it here, but reached new heights in America? In a completely different world, without knowing the language, without friends or money! Did they get lucky? Maybe the food there is different? We purposely found these successful people - Ukrainians - from all different walks of life, and proved that the treacherous and painful climb to the top is a reality. However, the climb is not possible without the fundamental principle of community." The film was made over the course of a year. Filming was carried out in the span of two months in the beginning of 2016 and took plaee in four different American cities - Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
- Activist Nelia sheltered 15 refugees from Kharkiv in her museum of folk life in the Poltava Region. Nelia teaches Guests local dialect, and traditions, to plant a vegetable garden to feed themselves in the village.
- The film tells the story of the pioneers of Ukrainian modernism, fugitives from the deadly regime of the USSR. The group was founded in the early 1950s in New York where its poets worked alongside the Beatniks. Because Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union in those years, writing such poetry there would have surely resulted in severe repression from the KGB. However, the free world offered these poets an opportunity to build and develop their own language and bring their literature to an international level.
- The unique testimony of the tragic events and crimes of russia through the eyes of Ukrainians, which the entire world must see and feel.
- Through its two parallel plotlines, the film follows the exploits of a volunteer evacuation team in the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, led by young, precociously stoic Anton, as well as the wartime daily lives and unlikely friendship of two elderly women - pragmatic Zinaida and dreamy, starry-eyed Taisia - who decided to stay at their homes in the now de-occupied Chernihiv region. While Anton faces the most visceral horrors of war on a daily basis during his team's urgent, desperate attempts to rescue the most vulnerable, who are often reluctant or unwilling to leave, Zinaida and Taisia seek to pursue any forms of resistance within their power - from praying and writing poetry to hiding historic plaque and reporting intelligence to the Ukrainian military.
- The starting point of the Sixties is the Black Monday event in Kyiv's history. On March 13, 1961, a large-scale man-made disaster resulted in the whole area of Kurenivka being buried beneath a multi-meter layer of soil. This horrific event has cost the lives of more than thousands of people in Kyiv. The action begins a second after this tragedy. Six rescued residents of Kurenivka find themselves in a shelter with a mysterious second exit. After passing through it, the rescued enter the wonderful interim world, which will bring them to Kyiv of modern times. But will everyone get there? And who among the six will be able to see Kalinin Square and find out that it has long become Independence Square? Independence of a country they are unlikely to recognize.
- A documentary film dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the BRUKIVKA Kamianets-Podilskyi International Film Festival, which has become one of the iconic film events in Podilia, Ukraine.
- Unique chronically documentary due to some rare footage with the activists of the Ukrainian revolution: Hermann von Eichhorn, the supreme commander of the German troops, walks along Kyiv railway station shortly before his assassination, hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky sets a generous table for his allies, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Symon Petliura freeze in the January frost near the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Mikhail Muravyov's units pass through Kyiv, Christian Rakovsky greets the Red Army soldiers in Kharkiv, the People's Commissar for Education and the proponent of Ukrainisation of the 1920s Mykola Skrypnyk speaks from a rostrum.
- Traveling across war-torn Ukraine, we tell the stories of people who, against all odds, remain actively engaged in protecting their country. They help as volunteers or fight as soldiers while defending their land, which the Russian armed forces are destroying. Before the invasion, some were building their businesses, but today they are forced to work even harder to keep their entrepreneurial spirit alive.
- The 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.
- A tragicomedy about an amateur theater in Volyn. Seeking to overcome his personal crisis, a renowned stage and screen actor Petro returns from the capital city to his native village to create a theatre with his fellow villagers, thus proving to himself what he is still capable of. After a decade of fame, a small troupe is tired. It is increasingly difficult for the director to find actors for new theatrical productions. The choice falls on Chekhov's vaudeville for three actors. On stage - the director, the director's wife and the director's childhood friend, the head of the club. Summer heat. Serenity. Six months before the war.
- Polish survivors of wartime massacre by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 return to meet former Ukrainian neighbors. Stories of horrific slaughter and how some risked their lives to save alleged enemies.
- What a strange and interesting life. We are constantly striving to provide for life by working from morning till night. Is this the human happiness that everyone dreams of so much? - the protagonist asked himself every day. Finding a picture of his childhood at home, Robert remembers his dream of becoming a singer that will change his life. Overcoming barriers to a happy future, he truly falls in love. But the dark forces want to take everything, deceiving the guy. What is Robert ready for his dream?
- Oleh Bazylevych, the favorite forward of Kyiv Dynamo fans, could have remained just a player in the history of Ukrainian football. But he decided to become a coach. And it was the beginning of the new page for him. The story of Bazylevych's life reminds the action novel with its dangerous rises, terrific falls, extraordinary voyages, and mystery adventures.
- In 2014, the war begins. Immediately, a system of evacuation of the wounded and killed is being built, the outpost of which is the Dnieper - it is here that the first will be delivered, it is here that they are still received. Tatiana Guba has been coordinating the evacuation for 5 years. She is called "Mom Tanya". Thousands of people are grateful to her for her life. Serhiy Kryvorotchenko, director of the Dnipro Airport, has deployed a helicopter evacuation system since the beginning of the war. Eugene Titarenko, the film's director, in 2014-2015 was part of a volunteer medical battalion, communicates with the heroes of the film about the evacuation system. The viewer will see the whole way of saving lives, will be directly in the vortex of events and will understand how many people are involved in the process of saving one person.
- Documentary 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.
- Putting his reputation at stake, the ambitious Ukrainian border guard finds the masterpieces of art stolen in Verona.
- Love triangle revealed during a wedding is set to a backdrop of Ukrainian history and tradition, with questions of honor and faithfulness asked.
- The eternal desire of a man to love a real and unique Woman paints different images in the imagination of screenwriter Ivan Gerasimov. From time to time he meets with the women of his dreams - a romantic young lady, a relaxed prostitute, a mysterious lady with a veil and - his wife - Ivan ceases to understand which of these women is reality, and which is only a figment of his imagination. In search of answers, he finds himself in the mystical station cafe Gendelyk. Thanks to the "accidental" meeting with Bartender and Sputnik, various emotional memories from life emerge in his memory: first love, funny oddities, moments of incredible happiness and unbearable suffering. These memories help Ivan understand himself and become free.
- Poliske was contaminated with radioactive material after the 1986 Chornobyl disaster. Soviet authorities did everything they could to erase the ancient history of this town, and after Chernobyl, they destroyed its future.
- The film tells about the famous Ukrainian artists - Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko, about their work, about their life-long love, about how in 1982 the Soviet authorities destroyed the largest monumental work of these artists...
- A movie about rich life in the poor country.
- The story of a careless boy Vlad, who decides to help his uncle, a former policeman. Rescuing a girl who has fallen into kidnappers' hands, Vlad faces a harsh reality that completely changes his behavior view and him.
- 1980, USSR. Human rights activist and political prisoner Mustafa Jemilev is exiled to Siberia, where he works at the oxygen station. 3 people are headed to him across the huge country with different goals - to meet, to destroy, to protect.
- Arriving in Winnipeg's North End in search of a better life, young Ukrainian immigrant Eva finds a city filled with rundown, outdated establishments and a disproportional number of other immigrants all too in search for a new life, all desperately holding onto their language and culture, creating a neighborhood of miscommunication, apathy and growing alienation.
- In a provincial town near the capital, three teenagers discover an abandoned archaeological dig site of a pagan origin. What ensues is a series of terrifying and unexplainable events that rattle the tranquility of the community. An enigmatic history teacher, who has appeared in the town recently, is set to solve the problems.
- Hrytsko Chubai is a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representative of Lviv underground culture of late 60s early 70s. The documentary "Chubai. Speaking again" is made in the innovative genre of a theatre production. The action takes place in Hrytsko's basement workshop. The journey through the film is leads by the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan and features Hrytsko's family and friends. They share their reminisces, tell stories and read his poetry. Video projection onto the basement walls expands boundaries and brings the audience into the time and space portrayed.
- The Chechen Ruslan Arsajev seizes every opportunity to fight against the Russians, including in Ukraine. A portrait of a displaced mercenary from the front line of the crisis.
- A detailed war story of betrayal by some fellow country folk in the battle against Soviet aggression in the Ukraine.
- Twelve young filmmakers made this the guiding principle of the featured documentary film. They mingle amongst the demonstrators on Independence Square and in the Donetsk region, shooting a "Chronicle of Civil Protest", a kaleidoscope of voices, opinions and events which bears witness to the circumstances surrounding solidarity and struggle. The viewer observes the Ukrainians at first hand, experiencing how a hard-pressed society becomes more militant and slides ever deeper into the abyss of civil war.
- The 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.
- The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals.
- Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, fleeing the war, found refuge in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine. The local director decides to attract non-professional actors -displaced people - in bringing his dream into life - to stage the King Lear play. The theatrical performance helps them find themselves and their purpose in a new world where there is war, and the director finds an answer to the eternal question of what love is and why this world should not perish.
- Archival 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.
- Shot over the course of 10 years on an expired Svema, this film is about a mental trauma of a woman, who grew up in a dysfunctional family during Soviet times in Ukraine.
- Follows the progress of the Euromaidan revolution from the perspective of LGBT Ukrainians. From accounts of exile and torture, to stories of resistance, this film shows a side of the conflict in Ukraine the world has not yet seen.
- The combination of poetry, music and visual imagery creates a new organic body which audience look closely to. The film-concert and adaptation of the performance "RozdIlovI" (aka Divided) - a cult multidisciplinary project of the art agency ArtPole.
- Milan. A few of the objects belonging to the list of goods that my family carried out of the Soviet Union in 1957, while emigrating to Italy, and a photograph from 1919 portraying the house where my grandfather was born. In the village of Yamna, in Ukraine, a wide area, patrolled by armed guardians. Inside the few remaining buildings of an abandoned sanatorium and an old wooden house, which looks exactly like the one my family owned. The further the inquiry proceeds, the more the inhabitants of the village will be entangled in the voids of their collective memory. The help of two of them will be crucial: Petro, the oldest partisan in the area, and Yura, the taxi-driver. The confessions will shed light on the fate of the house, just before the whole village will be buried again in its silent secrets.
- This is a story of my family. A gesture of my gratefulness to Dad, who abandoned his life-dream of becoming a symphonic director for my childhood's sake - and to Mum who made my childhood really wonderful.
- A poet who works as a tour guide invents a non-existent tour in Kyiv on the go, based on his own life.
- Postcards from Ukraine is a documentary dealing with the crisis in Ukraine. After traveling all over Ukraine, Sieva, the director, chose to focus on 5 young characters whose lives have been deeply affected by the events happening in Ukraine. Each of the five characters come from various cities and social background's giving the viewer a sense of how individually these people react to the very important decisions they are faced with. The documentary reports events, such as the referendum for the independence of Donbas region and the national presidential elections, which where all factors that lead to the turmoil in Ukraine. And then there is the influence of mass propaganda that completes the context in which the five characters move. From the suburbs of Donetsk, to the separatists camps in Lugansk, to the block posts in Mariupol and Crimea, from the rich estates of the oligarchs in Kharkhiv to the still occupied Maidan Square in Kyiv, Postcards from Ukraine aims to represent a cross-section of the new generation of Ukraine; their values, their dreams and the role they play in this big crisis written by the elites.