Viktor Zhdanov
Nascimento : 1968-03-03, Kyselivka, 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.
The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought.
The story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services tried unsuccessfully force to betray their country.
Petrovych
Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life.
Anna has just taken on a mortgage in dreams of a better life with her daughter Katia. Instead, a turn of events makes Anna face a dilemma that will change her personal moral borders in a society that hasn't got any.
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.
Chaplain
The Ukrainian chaplain trying to get out of the Donbas gray area, stumbles upon a shot convoy of separatists, where he encounters a mortally wounded mercenary and is faced with a choice - to help or continue to flee, but suddenly inadvertently steps on an antipersonnel mine.
(voice)
This is a story about friendship of little voiceless robot Victor and a 8 year old girl Victoria who live in a far-away world in the distant future.
Third
Ten figures walk around in a circle. All they have is a number. The “Great Zero” monitors them. Based on a dystopian parable by Oleg Sentsov, this film was created between Kyiv and the Siberian penal colony where Sentsov spent five years as a political prisoner.
Svyryd Ivasiuta
The series is built in the form of saga and depicts the turbulent periods of the beginning of the 20th century through the eyes of ordinary people: the First World War, the revolution, the emergence of Soviet regime. Each of the characters faced the changes in their own way through their concept of truth. However, all of them shared fundamental desire to live, love and find their own place in the new era.
Mytrofan
Ukraine 1922. The Russian empire has already broken up, but a new state has not yet been formed. Many tried to create and consolidate their independence during this period, and this is the story of one of such people. This is the story of the life and love of one person - Ivan, nicknamed Raven ...
Uncle Vasia
A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
Uncle Horun
O ano é 1241. A horda mongol liderada pelo cruel khan Batu se move para o oeste, destruindo tudo em seu caminho. Chegando às montanhas dos Cárpatos, as tropas acampam logo abaixo. No entanto, à noite, vários caçadores locais, os irmãos Berkut, entram secretamente no acampamento e libertam os reféns. Consumido de raiva, o cã decide se vingar e destruir os assentamentos dos Cárpatos. Um traidor entre os moradores diz aos mongóis sobre uma passagem secreta dentro das montanhas. No entanto, um pequeno grupo de caçadores de montanha liderados por Zakhar Berkut tem seu próprio plano para deter a horda inimiga de uma vez por todas..
Military at a checkpoint
A man comes back from war to his home village with a burnt face. What awaits him at his home which he hadn't seen for so long? Will he be able to get back his old life?
A Ukrainian town has just been occupied by pro-Russian military forces. A bank clerk is going to take credit money from those who won’t give it without a fight.
Vova
Lukas é intérprete em uma missão da OSCE e um dia se perde no meio do estepe no sul da Ucrânia. Sua jornada rumo ao autorreconhecimento e felicidade será marcada por uma série de estranhos encontros e situações bizarras…
Starui
Um grupo de voluntários militares chega ao aeroporto de Donetsk pela primeira vez, em setembro de 2014. O aeroporto foi ocupado pelos ucranianos por mais de quatro meses de guerra.
Vova