Volodymyr Yamnenko
Nacimiento : 1959-12-07, Ukraine
January, 2022. Long-time neighbours and miners Sergiich and Pashka live in a small village in the Donbass. Their lives would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that they are located in a grey zone at the heart of the conflict between Russian and Ukrainian forces. They are neutral arbiters, frequently hosting members of one army or the other, each fully aware of what their neighbour is doing. But as fighting continues and resources diminish, both men know they must connect with a ravaged world beyond their homes.
A little-known page in the history of the great Patriotic war. Hard days of the occupation of Soviet Karelia by the Finns. The war was the hardest test for everyone, but especially for children. The story is based on the memories of young prisoners of Finnish migrant camps.
Kocha
The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbass after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.
Golovnya
1971, Odessa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine’s 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party’s view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, which consequently realizes she must protect the director’s vision and the safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet occupation.
It is the early 20th century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village in Ukraine. He is poor and believes that his daughters have one chance to escape poverty – a successful marriage. Tevye accepts a profitable proposition from a matchmaker, but his beautiful daughters have a different plan.
After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together.
A poetic short drama film about young man Lev, who decides to become a mariner in Ukrainian NAVY after he starts to feel disconnected with his home village. This film was made as a prologue to a feature film "U311 Cherkasy".
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.
Chicho Gosho
"Snow" is a film for the choice, betrayal and forgiveness between brothers and sons, narrated on the background of the harsh reality in an abandoned place.
Igor
A tale of changeless and sad pictures of village’s last days of life, told through prism of a real story.
New Year is a time of miracles. In life and Affairs Lena accompanies success, she knows exactly what she wants, and always achieves the intended goal. In the new year's schedule of a business woman there is not a single extra minute and it seems that nothing can make her stop. Little Stepan does not need expensive toys, but only a little love and home warmth. Desperate to find understanding in adults, he goes in search of Santa Claus to ask for a new mother. Winter city confronts him with Lena and the woman suddenly catches hopeful look of a child who saw in her the good fairy. This chance meeting will change their whole life…
Husband and wife want to move to a new apartment. During their 10-minute dialogue we get an idea of the real estate market in Kiev and the priorities of the citizens. Three drug-addicted teenagers are planning their evening. Thanks to them we learn about the Kiev’s nightlife. In a sauna, two discharged cooks are discussing all of Kiev’s restaurants. In eleven episodes, the film provides important and interesting information about the Ukrainian capital Kiev: facts, prices and routes.
The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.
The murder of an ordinary policeman happened in a provincial town Limansk. Police officer Lyubov Virtanen comes from Moscow to investigate the crime. Her appearance is troubling the local authorities.
Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.
Based on the work of Mykola Khvylovy "The Tale of the Sanatorium Zone". About political repressions in 1920s in Ukraine, the disappointment of revolutionary intellectuals in Communist ideals.
The young man decides to go into business. The main advantage of "novice businessman" is a great ability to mimic other people's voices.
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