Alina Gorlova
Birth : 1992-01-01, Zaporizhia, Ukraine
History
Alina Eduardivna Gorlova (Ukrainian: Алі́на Едуа́рдівна Го́рлова; b. 1992) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, director, and screenwriter. She was inducted into the Ukrainian Film Academy in 2017 and was named as an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2021. She graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and TV. She directs documentaries but also experienced in making fiction shorts, social and commercial ads. In 2016 Alina present her first feature-length documentary "Kholodny Yar. Intro" (2016) was presented at the Odesa IFF (Ukraine) and Artdocfest (Moscow, Russia). Her second movie "No Obvious Signs" (2018) received four awards at the Docudays festival.
Editor
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.
Writer
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.
Director
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.
Playback Coordinator
Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.
Thanks
The municipal district heating company from Ivano-Frankivsk has a cultural offer for its employees. To break away from their daily routine, run-down infrastructure and troublesome clients, they may come to sing in the company choir once a week. The folk and patriotic songs they practice at rehearsals become a bridge between the past communist era and the new political and economic reality. They help them to deal with the shock of transformation and simply spend some time together, just like in the good old times.
Executive Producer
During a large storm, the sea flushes a Second World War bomb to the beach of a port city. The city authorities decide to evacuate the area. Khrystyna, a 45-year-old single woman, has no choice but to leave the place. The gathering point for the people is the city theatre. There she meets a young man Illia, a stage worker, who is responsible for the evacuated people. There is an understanding and intimacy between them that frightens both.
Creative Consultant
Life flows in its everyday reality, but then suddenly something elusive changes its course. All that is left is the chance to plunge into memories where everything is preserved, as if in a museum.
Producer
What 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?
Screenplay
What 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?
Editor
What 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?
Director
What 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?
Editor
They say whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But how to start everything over and don’t lose taste to life? New home, new friends, new job, new family, new values… This is life story of one refugee from Donetsk city who was forced to leave her new dream house on one day and escaped from the war with little child in her hands. How does this story differ from 1,5 million similar dramas of other refugees from eastern Ukraine? Maybe, these are amazing vitality, positive philosophy of being and irresistible optimism in spite of the circumstances...
Director
Military actions have been ongoing in the East of Ukraine for 3 years now. From the first days of war in different hot military action zones women are part of the actions and perform military tasks. However, society still retains an ambiguous, stereotypical attitude towards women in the army...
Director
Kholodny Yar is a misterious place in the heart of Ukraine, where history meets present in strange ways. Stunning landscapes and meditative moods are represented in this version of the film. Following the nature we plunge in the history of the paradoxical amount of rebellions and try to answer the question: what forces people to defend their freedom at the cost of their own lives?
Editorial Services
A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
Editor
Three difficult month of Maidan! Ukrainian people united together at Kiev's historic square called Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) came out to voice theire feelings and emotions against the Yanukovich regime. Lots of souls were lost, lots of destinies were changed! So much still to come... Ukrainian Revolution of dignity.
Screenplay
Three men, whose neglected lifes seem like poor existence, created for themselves an entertainment: to peep per couples who solitude in the forest. They having fun to watch and then to scare them. And this time they decided to act the same way again, but they found something another, not like they used to...
Director
Three men, whose neglected lifes seem like poor existence, created for themselves an entertainment: to peep per couples who solitude in the forest. They having fun to watch and then to scare them. And this time they decided to act the same way again, but they found something another, not like they used to...
