Life to the Limit (2023)

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life..

Jonathan (Elijah Wood) é um jovem judeu americano, que vai até a Ucrânia em busca da mulher que salvou a vida de seu avô na 2ª Guerra Mundial. Ele é auxiliado nessa viagem por Alex Perchov (Eugene Hutz), um precário tradutor que mais atrapalha do que ajuda, e pelo avô de Alex, um motorista mal-humorado que anda sempre acompanhado de seu fedido e desobediente cachorro, batizado de Sammy Davis Jr. Durante a jornada o inusitado quarteto descobre segredos sobre a ocupação nazista e a cumplicidade do governo ucraniano da época.

Ucrânia, século 16. Taras se estabeleceu confortável vida em fazenda depois de anos de aventuras de capa e espada com seus companheiros cossacos. Apesar de não ser rico, ele é capaz de enviar seu filho Andrei longe para uma escola polaca. Neste momento os poloneses são os Senhores da Ucrânia e a origem dos cossacos é a luta dos servos ucranianas para libertar-se e as suas terras de dominação polonesa. Para este fim Taras espera que seu filho seja educado como o inimigo. Em vez disso, Andrei se apaixona pela filha de um nobre polonês, criando o palco para um confronto entre o amor, a honra da família, e uma luta pela identidade nacional.

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

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...

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.

Dobrinya Nikitich goes on a quest to save the royal niece and finds out whether his old friend Zmey Gorinich is loyal to him. During the adventures, he is accompanied by the royal messenger who's in love with the royal niece.

A concert movie that captured live 12 September from Ukraine in Kharkiv's Freedom Square before 350,000 fans.

Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.

Uma mulher solteira de cinquenta anos declara guerra à indústria pesada em seu país. Ela recorre à sabotagem e está disposta a arriscar tudo pela natureza e pelas terras virgens... até que um órfão ucraniano entra em sua vida. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

A crónica de uma revolta civil que ocorreu em Kiev (Ucrânia) no inverno de 2013/14. O filme segue o progresso da revolução: desde as manifestações pacíficas, onde estiveram meio milhão de pessoas, na Praça Maïdan, até às sangrentas batalhas de rua entre os protestantes e a polícia antimotim.

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which candidate Viktor Yushchenko suffered a near-fatal poisoning and his unpopular opponent, Viktor Yanukovych, was declared the winner. In the aftermath, more than a million people -- including the ailing Yushchenko -- took to the streets of Kiev, protesting the results that contradicted exit polls showing Yushchenko with an impressive lead.

'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; the Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that the Ukraine was given its independence.

In 1950, long after the world has finished fighting World War II, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting both Nazi and Soviet abuses, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances and his own sense of honor and duty to lead this effort as an underground war. As portrayed by the film, Shukhevych is a genteel family man who is also a complex character (revolted by ethnic discrimination, a music lover and a military genius) that with his charisma fuels his countrymen with desire for freedom. In the end, Shukhevych's efforts are unable to defeat the Soviets despite paying for his resistance with his life, but they re-enforce Ukrainian patriotism as an underground force until Ukraine finally recovers its freedom from Soviet tyranny.

The film investigates the kidnapping and alleged murder of a soldier in Donbas, in 2014. Together with his father, an elderly fisherman from the Southern Ukraine, we follow the trail of his captors. Traveling from the calm Azov coastline to industrial conglomerates, from the furious mining region to the sleepless capital, we try to find the witnesses of the young soldier's final hours, as well as those who could have seen his body. The film uses a wide range of video and audio material including news, voice recordings and interviews. Its complex narrative construction shows the long and winding path of a father who seeks justice for his son's murderers.

The story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.

The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who's a popular figure of Ukrainian legend.

Adonis Creed saiu mais forte do que nunca de sua luta contra 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan e segue sua trajetória rumo ao campeonato mundial de boxe, contra toda a desconfiança que acompanha a sombra de seu pai e com o apoio de Rocky. Sua próxima luta não será tão simples: Ele precisa enfrentar um adversário que possui uma forte ligação com o passado de sua família, o que torna tudo ainda mais complexo.