Mykyta Kuzmenko

When reformed ex-smuggler Pamfir returns to home to his village on the Ukrainian border after working abroad for several years, he’s determined to earn an honest living and set a good example for his beloved teenage son Nazar. But in a town where corruption runs deep and crime and religion are inextricably linked, his plan is quickly thwarted when Nazar sets fire to the local church in a misguided effort to keep him at home. To pay for the damage, Pamfir must take on one last job for a crime syndicate operating a risky smuggling venture in a place where all the rules have changed.

Voduyrudu (Will, Thought, Movement, Spirit) is a folk-improvisational film-ballet, the origins of which are environment and time. This film is an act of revival of national culture, through the expressiveness of such independent elements of folk art as music and dance, displayed in the frame of the film, that transforms their action into a dynamic picture that will be tested only by faith and time.

When she was five, Liza Volkova found her father, pistol in hands, standing next to her mother's dead body. That very day the father took the girl to the orphanage and left there. For 13 years the girl was planning her revenge, being bullied by peers. Having left the orphanage, Liza finds the shooting club, with the aim to hunt down and kill her father. However, she doesn't even suspect that she herself is someone else's target.

Nikita, talented young dancer, enters Let's Dance competition to earn money for his brother's surgery but a brief encounter with a famous singer Liza, who hosts the competition, puts his chances of winning and even life at risk.

Oksana and Tolik are married for more than 30 years. Oksana, as a dominant, thinks of Tolik as absolutely dependent. While buying clothes at the bazaar in Khmelnytskyi, Oksana asks Tolik to try on a T-shirt. He reluctantly goes behind the curtain and turns into a 7-year-old boy.

Post-Soviet summer camp near Kyiv. Danya (16) prepares a special performance for the visit of his father, who is not living with him for a long time. However, Danya's father arrives earlier than expected and comes to the camp not alone.

Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.

“Lives begin and end, but everything goes back to the earth.” A tour-de-force of cinematography and sound design, this captivating, award-winning documentary looks at three generations of sheepherders in the Carpathian Mountains. While father and son take their flock on their annual journey through the highlands, the 82-year-old widower Vasyl reflects on his past back home. A sublime look at the cycles of life and the waning of tradition.

Sanko returns to his grandfather's house, where he spent his childhood.