Maksym Nakonechnyi
Birth : 1990-10-19, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
History
Maksym Nakonechny (Ukranian: Макси́м Васи́льович Наконе́чний; born October 19, 1990; Odessa) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy.
He graduated from the Ivan Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television. He participated in various television projects, in particular on the channel "1 + 1". Co-founder of the production company "Tabor" ( Odessa ), which produces documentaries and feature films, theater plays and social videos. His production work, "This Rain Will Never End", directed by Alina Gorlova, won the Best Feature-length film in 2020 at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence. He is making the film "Spas", the project of which won the Eleventh State Cinema Competition and is a co-production of Ukraine, Croatia and the Czech Republic. Maxim Nakonechny's "Butterfly Vision" (2022) will be presented for the first time at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in the "Un Certain Regard" section.
Editor
After spending months as a prisoner in Donbass, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.
Writer
After spending months as a prisoner in Donbass, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.
Director
After spending months as a prisoner in Donbass, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.
Producer
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
Short documentary film-portrait about openly transgender volunteer Sebastian Romanov and his surgical transition to another gender.
Associate 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.
Editor
About a young musician from the Carpathian village of Vorokhta who comes to Kyiv in the winter of 2013 for the Revolution of Dignity to play barricades and talk to protesters. Collisions with security forces are getting tougher and Peter has to replace cymbals with a helmet and a bulletproof vest. Upon returning home, he realizes that he cannot sit back and goes to play his music for people in the newly liberated cities.
Producer
About a young musician from the Carpathian village of Vorokhta who comes to Kyiv in the winter of 2013 for the Revolution of Dignity to play barricades and talk to protesters. Collisions with security forces are getting tougher and Peter has to replace cymbals with a helmet and a bulletproof vest. Upon returning home, he realizes that he cannot sit back and goes to play his music for people in the newly liberated cities.
Writer
About a young musician from the Carpathian village of Vorokhta who comes to Kyiv in the winter of 2013 for the Revolution of Dignity to play barricades and talk to protesters. Collisions with security forces are getting tougher and Peter has to replace cymbals with a helmet and a bulletproof vest. Upon returning home, he realizes that he cannot sit back and goes to play his music for people in the newly liberated cities.
Director
The family has to celebrate the New Year at the new place for the first time. Despite all the efforts, there is no holiday spirit and everything goes wrong. Almost everything.
Director
When a student in a classroom provokes a young teacher, who has only started her career at a village school, it ashames and confuses her in front of the whole class. Coming back home, she cannot stop thinking of what has happened and for the first time in her life pushes herself to more and more new wild states. In order to cure her trauma, get rid of parent control, and to settle the situation with the student, she calls to her subconscious and it answers.
Director of Photography
Story about school of life for the 12 y.o. kid, who became a hero of Maidan, during the current revolution in Ukraine
Assistant 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.
First Assistant Director
Director
Short documentary film-portrait of Mykola Buderatskyi who is an openly gay volunteer paramedic.
