Hetman (2015)

러시아에서 미국에 대한 꿈을 안고 고향을 떠나 먼 길에 오른 얀코(뱅상 페레)는 폭풍을 만나 이민선이 난파되어 모두 죽고 혼자만 살아 남는다. 미국의 작은 해안 마을에 떠밀려 온 얀코는 말도 통하지 않는 이국 땅에서 추위와 기아에 헤매다 스미스의 농장을 발견하고 그곳을 찾는다. 정신병자로 오인돼 죽을 지경에 이르는 스미스 농장에서 일하는 에이미(레이첼 와이즈)의 그리움으로 목숨을 건지게 되고, 지주 스와퍼의 집에서 정원사로 일하게 된다. 스와퍼의 친구인 의사 케네 박사는 얀코에게 호의를 베풀어 영어를 체스를 가르쳐 주고 두 사람은 친구가 되는데...

미국에서 자란 유태인 조나단은 나치로부터 할아버지를 구해준 인물을 찾아 우크라이나로 향한다. 그를 안내해 줄 가이드는 장님인 체 하는 괴팍한 노인과 영어에 서툰 알렉스, 그리고 사나운 똥개 새미 데이비스 주니어 주니어. 채식주의자이고 개 공포증이 있는 조나단은 유태인과 미국인을 싫어하는 가이드와 함께 할아버지의 숨겨진 과거를 찾아 떠난다.

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

[수입 수출]은 서로 다른 나라로 향하는 두 사람에 대해 이야기한다. 첫 번째는 젊은 간호사이자 갓난아기의 엄마이며 생계를 짊어지고 있는 올가에 대한 이야기. 그녀는 우크라이나에서 버는 돈으로는 도저히 생계를 유지할 수 없어 결국엔 오스트리아로 떠난다. 그 낯선 나라에서 그녀는 일을 구하지만 번번히 잃고, 가까스로 구한 병원 청소부 일을 하는 올가는 그 곳에서 죽어가는 병자들과 우정을 나누지만 친했던 할아버지가 죽은 뒤 삶의 의욕이 꺾인다. 다른 한 이야기는 젊은 오스트리아인 파울이 풀어간다. 그는 여자친구와의 관계도 원만치 않고, 돈벌이도 시원찮다. 그의 양부는 결국 그를 우크라이나로 데려가 도박게임기 설치하는 일을 맡긴다. 하지만 그들은 사사건건 부딪히고 끝내 파울은 양부를 뒤로하고 나와버린다.

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.

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

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…

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.

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.

In the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible revenge?

A documentary triptych about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grew up and started to live an adult life. It’s a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It’s a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to her child whose childhood will probably be even worse than hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to have an abortion.

Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation.

The main characters - two brothers, Mark and Yasha, are street-smart and know how to get from life all that is necessary. Mark is referred to as the noble bandit, and Yasha, on the contrary, is all about using his intelligence. Passing difficult twists and turns in their youth, the brothers begin to look for stability. Precisely in one of those days they receive the news about the inheritance. They inherit a well-known pawnshop and the owner is their uncle Felix, who doesn't want to let go of it. Mark and Yasha decide to pick up the inheritance by any means. They part ways, but they are ready for anything...

Story about Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrey Sheptytsky who opposed repressive totalitarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler and chose the path of service to God and people.

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.

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...

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.

Famous lake in Carpathian mountains -- lake Synevir -- is known for its rich history throughout the hundreds of years as a place of mystical unexplained events. There is a group of students who decided to spend a weekend at the lake. They did not believe in those stories about lake Synevir and the strange creatures around it. Too bad for them....

〈마이단〉은 2013‒2014년 겨울에 우크라이나 키이우에서 일어난 대통령 야누코비치 정권에 반대하는 시민 봉기를 기록한다. 마이단 광장에서 시작되는 50만 명의 강력하면서도 평화로운 집회의 시작부터 시위대와 진압 경찰과의 유혈 거리 전투까지, 이 영화는 혁명의 진행 과정을 따라간다. 〈마이단〉은 각성하여 정체성을 재발견한 국가의 초상이다. 세르히 로즈니차 감독은 대중 봉기의 본질을 현 정치적 문제를 넘어 사회적, 문화적, 철학적 현상으로서 본다. 열정, 영웅적 투쟁, 공포, 용기, 열망, 사람들의 연대, 민속 문화, 열정 및 자기희생이 강력하게 혼합된 〈마이단〉은 고전 영화 제작 스타일과 다큐멘터리적 시급성을 결합한 놀라운 영화적 캔버스라 할 수 있다.