The Green Jacket (2013)

Barbú y su hermana nacieron en una villa muy pobre de Ucrania y fueron vendidos a un artista de circo que prometió a su familia que tendrían un brillante futuro en Alemania. Esto resultó ser falso ya que Barbú terminó robando para una pandilla y Mimma, su hermana, fue vendida a un burdel. Con la intención de salvar a su hermana, Barbú roba a la banda que le obliga a delinquir, pero le descubren y le dan una buena paliza. Cuando todo parece ir de mal en peor, Barbú recibe una ayuda inesperada...

Based on the Ukrainian vaudeville by Mykhaylo Staritsky, the famous Ukrainian writer. The leading character, Svirid Petrovich Golokhvosty had his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after losing everything he had at cards, he decided to remedy his financial situation by a profitable marriage. A rich but ugly girl named Pronya Sirko fell for the illustrious suitor’s courtship...

Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

La arrolladora historia de los hermanos más famosos del mundo del boxeo, Vitali y Wladimir Klitschko. Son dos atletas excepcionales que, por encima de todo, son hermanos. Este documental narra la vida y carreras de ambos comenzando por la instrucción en su niñez en Ucrania, pasando por sus primeros años en el boxeo hasta llegar al estrellato internacional y convertirse en leyendas del deporte.

Valeri Sikorski knows from his doctors that his days are numbered because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He wants to make a last adventure in his life and goes to England, but first he stops in Berlin to pick up his best friend Victor. But Victor has disappeared. Now Valeri's journey turns into a search for his old friend Victor.

Un grupo de amigos que están pasando las vacaciones en Europa van a a parar a Prypiat, una ciudad abandonada, donde se refugiaron después del accidente los trabajadores de la central nuclear de Chernobil; pero pronto se darán cuenta de que no están solos.

STALKER: Monolith's Whisper tells the story of Alexey Savchuk, an exiled victim of the 1986 Chernobyl accident who enters the Exclusion Zone to find his lost brother after "The Second Catastrophe" where a mysterious second explosion takes place in 2006 at the Nuclear Power Plant. Helped by Seeker, he will experience the vicissitudes of "The Zone" and try to reach his objective. Stalker Team Uruguay has brought the video game to real life up to every detail, so get ready to enter "The Zone"!

The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.

The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.

Una mirada weismaniana a los disturbios civiles que acontecieron en la plaza central de la capital de Ucrania, documento único e insobornable de lo que realmente ocurrió en aquellos turbulentos meses. La historia frente a nuestros ojos. En Maidan se dan discursos, se conversa y se canta pero, sobre todo, es punto de encuentro y unión. Maidan, la Plaza de la Independencia de Kiev, el equivalente a la Puerta del Sol madrileña, fue el escenario del particular 15M del pueblo ucraniano: excepcional movimiento popular cuya mecha fue encendida por la negativa del presidente Yanukovych a entrar en la Unión Europea. Una película urgente –terminada apenas a tiempo para Cannes– del gran Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog).

In a provincial Ukrainian town everyone knows each other by name and live as one big family. Granny Zina bakes pies for local youngsters… she sells them drugs as well. Granny Zina is protected local criminal elite which is a police. When the criminal boss comes to pick up the interest, Granny Zina thoughtfully offers him a dinner. He is her own son…

The film is a psychological drama developing on the highlands of the Carpathian Mountains. Two helpless old men, brothers, desperately trying to keep up competition with each other in order to prolong their lives. Even though their bodies are decaying and both are sick the one still wants to outlive the other ... But one day a woman enters their remote dwelling...

Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.

Basado en hechos reales. Después de la caída del Imperio Ruso en el año 1917, la República Popular de Ucrania fue incluida contra su voluntad en el conjunto de la URSS. Cuando Stalin se hizo con todo el poder en la URSS, el partido comunista, con los métodos del terror sistemático, puso un control en todos los aspectos de la vida política y del pueblo. En el año 1932 se promulgó una ley que costó la vida de 8 a 10 millones de personas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival

The Russian Malwa is based on a Maxim Gorky yarn. The title character, played by Zidra Ritenbergs, is the restless wife of a provincial village fisherman. Unwilling to dedicate herself to her husband, Malwa seeks out love from every man she meets. This results in a romantic triangle that is at once disarmingly simplistic and intensely dramatic. Malwa was the final directorial effort of Vladimir Braun, who died in 1957. Star Zidra Ritenbergs won a "Best Actress" award at the Venice Film Festival; co-stars Pavel Usovicenko and Anatoll Ighnaliev also earned praise for their realistic performances.

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and Gorbatschow he left the country in the 80s. In his Installations and his numerous paintings Kabakov creates a world of its own, which leaves the heaviness of socialist and post-socialist life far behind. The film links Ilya Kabakovs artistic spaces with insights into Russian everyday life, which itself sometimes appears like an installation by the artist.

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine. Issues of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia, feminism and a divided and economically-depressed country are encountered as Barbara Hammer, a feminist activist and pioneer of lesbian cinema, return to a “homeland” full of struggling as people search for a new post-glasnost identity.

Artistic portrayal of the difficult personality of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his dramatic life against the backdrop of National-liberation war in the mid-17th century and the Cossack state building. The main storyline shows Khmelnytsky not only as hetman and commander, but reveals his private life and his complicated relations with his beloved woman.