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- When the immortal spirit of his evil uncle is unleashed, Sultan Suleiman and a Ukrainian girl Nastya, who was abducted from her home and forced into his Harem (were she was named Roxelana), embark on a quest together to acquire a number of magical relic weapons needed to retake control of the Ottoman Empire.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsPetro RabinovichEmanuel AxVyacheslav BihunA portrait of a legendary university professor who inspired generations of lawyers.
- DirectorSeraphim KusakinStarsEgor BudnikAleksandra Chernaya
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsBogdan BenyukSimone CostaIryna BeniukYoung Italian Michele, who has Ukrainian roots, goes to an abandoned Carpathian village to dispel the dust of his mother. Here he meets his grandfather Michael. This unexpected meeting changes their lives forever.
- DirectorAlexey TaranenkoStarsVitaliy SaliyWiktoria GorodeckaAnna IvanovaSasha 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.
- DirectorAleksandr AlyoshechkinVyacheslav AlyoshechkinStarsOleg TaktarovAleksey SerebryakovViktor SaraykinEgor, a Ukrainian MMA fighter, is wrongly convicted of the murder of his trainer, and upon release from prison he sets out to find those truly responsible. Along the way he falls in love with his boss's mistress, putting them both in danger ahead of the biggest fight of his life.
- DirectorOleh SentsovStarsSerhii FilimonovEvhen ChernykovYevhen GrygorievThe history of the film unfolds in the 1990s in Ukraine. The protagonist - a bandit nicknamed Rhinoceros - falls into the grip of the Ukrainian criminal world in the 1990s and begins his bloody path, which leads him not where he expected.
- DirectorStanislav KapralovStarsValeriia KaramanDaniel OlbrychskiPavlo AldoshynAn American detective travels to Ukraine to investigate the disappearance of his former mentor, and with the help of his mentor's daughter, the pair uncover a sinister plot involving an ancient cult.
- DirectorYuliya ShashkovaStarsAndriy KokotuhaAndrei KurkovSerhij ProskurnjaA documentary feature film about Oles Uljanenko, an author and cult figure of Ukrainian post-Soviet culture. His works were banned by Ukrainian authorities having judged them as pornographic and should be destroyed.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunA metaphoric film about a bittersweet and human-dependent fate of a rabbit.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsIvan ChendejMariya ChendejAnna Mykhaylivna MahulaA touching sisterly portrait of Ivan Chendej, the screenwriter of the legendary "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
- DirectorBogdan PukitsaStarsYurii MykhailivWhat a strange and interesting life. We are constantly striving to provide for life by working from morning till night. Is this the human happiness that everyone dreams of so much? - the protagonist asked himself every day. Finding a picture of his childhood at home, Robert remembers his dream of becoming a singer that will change his life. Overcoming barriers to a happy future, he truly falls in love. But the dark forces want to take everything, deceiving the guy. What is Robert ready for his dream?
- DirectorDenis SobolevStarsRey EremeyIryna KudashovaArtur NovikovIn a provincial town near the capital, three teenagers discover an abandoned archaeological dig site of a pagan origin. What ensues is a series of terrifying and unexplainable events that rattle the tranquility of the community. An enigmatic history teacher, who has appeared in the town recently, is set to solve the problems.
- DirectorOksana StarenkaStarsDmytro ChekalkinOksana Kaletnyk
- DirectorAlexander BeliakStarsStanislav BoklanDmytro StupkaBogdan YusipchukPresidential order forces children of the officials who are working and studying abroad to return, so chief of police Petro Burundiak has his son Vasyl back in Ukraine and working as a police freshman.
- DirectorLyubomyr LevytskyStarsNazar ZadneprovskiyLesya SamaevaKateryna FainFour years have passed since the last crazy wedding of the eldest daughter, and now the youngest of the Seredyuk family, Zakhar, is planning to stand on the towel of happiness.
- DirectorKateryna GornostaiStarsMaria FedorchenkoArsenii MarkovYana IsaienkoNavigating the emotional turmoil of waiting for life to begin while hanging around with classmates - a radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.
- DirectorAlena DemyanenkoStarsKatya MolchanovaMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiIvan BrovinFanny was at the wrong place at the right time, got involved with the wrong people and got punished for believing in them. This is her story.
- DirectorUlyana OsovskaDenys StrashnyyAnatoli, a former anti-Soviet activist who is now a monk and an artist, lives in an ancient stone tower in the heart of Tallinn. Day by day, he prays for nature and creates self-made books in his workshop. Many years ago, Anatoli made a vow to find something good in every day. The outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine makes him leave the peaceful Estonian capital and go to the front-line towns with a mission to work as a volunteer. Since 2014, he has combined the spiritual life with social activism, constantly traveling to the Donbas to deliver humanitarian aid. His vow is being tested by the reality of the 'grey zone'.
- DirectorSergii ChebotarenkoStarsNataliya BabenkoStanislav BoklanSergiy LuzanovskyThe film's plot is based on a real story of Oksana Boturchuk, a Ukrainian track-and-field athlete and Paralympic champion of 2008, five-time silver and bronze winner at Summer Paralympics of 2008, 2012 and 2016.
- DirectorTaras BenyukStarsYulia AmpleykinaAnna AndrusyshynIryna BeniukLisa loses business and a loved one. Instead of Poland, where she went to earn money, the girl finds herself without money and things in the New Year's ski resort of Bukovel. Surprises, curiosities and New Year's miracles happen to her here. The main character will find here both love and friendship.
- DirectorOleksandra HaloshynaStarsBoris KnizhenkoSvetlana Prus
- DirectorIlya MaksimovStarsTyler BunchWayne GraysonAlyson Leigh RosenfeldThe legendary Gulliver returns to the Kingdom of Lilliput, but he is not the giant they remember.
- DirectorOlesya MorgunetsStarsMiroslaw HaniszewskiAlla BineevaJoanna OpozdaChildren who were deprived of their parents by the punitive regimes of the USSR and the Third Reich found themselves on the verge of a clash of empires, at the dead end of occupation and the trap of the Second World War.
- DirectorIvan KravchyshynStarsAlina KovalenkoArtemiy EgorovSerhii ShliakhtiukA Red Army convoy transporting a large amount of cash is apparently ambushed by anarchists led by Makhno. In a twist of betrayal, the Red Army set up the attack to eliminate the anarchists. Two of the anarchists and one Red Army soldier survive, and like an American Western, they reconcile their differences to join forces against the Red Threat.
- DirectorMax KsjondaA neglected 12-year-old boy finds a Second World War tank in a dried swamp in a forest. This finding can yield him as much as one million dollars, so it's a winning lottery ticket for any person living in their small depressed town. But only the boy knows where this treasure is hidden.
- DirectorSergei TymchenkoStarsOlesya GolubIrina NovakYaroslav ShinderHow 30 minutes of self-isolation can change life. Incoming call. A girl asks to come over. She says that she is stuck on the balcony. Right after the conversation the girl acts weird, her friend Marina supports her. However, everything is not going as well as they planned. Will the women be able to "trap" a man? And maybe that's exactly what he's been waiting for?
- DirectorAleksandr AvsharovSerhii KastornykhThe protagonist of the film is a psychologist, who faces a difficult task: to return demobilized soldiers to a normal peaceful life and help them socialize. By healing their souls, he does much more than help each patient personally. It helps millions of civilians to accept into society those who consider themselves exiles. Through the prism of the protagonist, we show the life and difficulties faced by soldiers returning home from the front. We will experience all the victories and failures of the protagonist and his wards.
- DirectorOleh MalamuzhOleksandra RubanYevheniy YermakStarsSarah NatochennyMike PollockMarc ThompsonMavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls in love with a human, a talented young musician Lucas.
- DirectorGanna IaroshevychThis is a story of a young German man, Michel, whose dream is to lead a simple life far from civilization. He lives in the Ukrainian mountains and takes care of endangered animals - water buffaloes. After 10 years of being a loner, Michel falls in love with Vera, a woman from his hometown in Germany, who has two small kids from a previous relationship. Michel moves back to Germany and tries to create a new family with Vera. In the end Michel has to decide - is love worth a broken dream?
- DirectorAndrii LysetskyiIvan Prykhodko is one of the last folk artists in Ukraine. He is self-taught, lives in the countryside, and everything that comes from under his brushes is naive and honest art. Ivan's perception of the world, his inner life, is full of beauty and joy. One day Ivan's paintings are requested for an exhibition at the Art Arsenal, the country's main exhibition center. Will he exchange his small village hut for the glamorous city life and the company of art critics and agents?
- DirectorSimon MozgovyiThe story is about Nazar and Max, two guys from Ukraine, and an old Soviet bike, and the ambitious goal they set themselves to beat the world speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. This dry salt desert is the meeting point for hundreds of people from all over the world, who spend millions of dollars on their quest to become the next speed racing champion. Nazar and Max spend all their time assembling their bike in a small garage on the outskirts of Kyiv, travelling hundreds of miles and overcoming countless obstacles to make their dreams come true. And then, on the other side of the world, they both come to realize why there are there.
- DirectorIrena StetsenkoStarsDakh DaughtersVlad TroitskiyRuslana KhazipovaROSES. Film-Cabaret is a documentary cinéma vérité, following Dakh Daughters - an intellectual freak cabaret band, created by seven actresses under the roof of Kyiv experimental contemporary theater Dakh. The video diary spans almost five years, following Dakh Daughters since their first show, titled 'Roses' - after their first popular song 'Rozy / Donbas', written long before Donbas region became the war-torn zone of the so called 'Russian Spring'. ROSES. Film-Cabaret is about being an artist under extreme conditions of the pain and loss, realizing that during the war a natural self-defense would be creation - in terms of the art as well as motherhood. Film presents a special take on the Maidan revolution, as we are following the events through the eyes of the female artists, through women's eyes. Life is a cabaret for the characters of the film, so ROSES is a film-cabaret, where music hardly stops, pace never slows, and acting becomes something genuinely sincere. We see through Dakh Daughters' lives only to find out that all what happens behind the curtain is for the sake of being put on the stage.
- DirectorSergij WaldratStarsPavlo AdoshynMykola BerezaOleh DtykovA young pianist, who recovered from blindness, is returning home, to see his father's face for the first time in his life and to apologize.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsHans FrankDina PronichevaAnastasya OsmachkoNazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
- DirectorTaras TomenkoStarsDmytro OliynykVyacheslav DovzhenkoStanislav SuknenkoSlovo House is a story about a generation of Ukrainian artists persecuted by the totalitarian system, unfolding against the backdrop of one of the largest genocides of the 20th century - the Holodomor.
- DirectorArtem ShemetStarsDmytro VivcharyukMaryna KoshkinaAnatoliy YashchenkoThe film describes the story that takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows the lives of believers who, while remaining in the Vinnytsia region, continue their quiet struggle for the faith. The film is based on real events.
- DirectorVillen NovakStarsGeorgiy DelievAleksey GorbunovOleksii LeibiukThe year is 1940, a year before Nazi Germany attacks Communist Russia. The place is Azov Sea-bound small Ukrainian town of Mariupol. Seventeen-year-old Ukrainian girl Frosya and Jewish-Ukrainian boy Lionchyk fall in love with each other: they dream of getting married and starting a family. But Frosya follows Christianity, while Lyonchyk follows Judaism, and it is very difficult for the girl's father, Oleksiy, to agree to betroth her to a non-Christian. Oleksiy is a good man, but a staunch Christian believer. How can he give up his religious beliefs and let a non-believer into his family? But things quickly change when Frosya gets pregnant and the World War II reaches Mariupol.
- DirectorArtem GrygoryanStarsDmitriy MonatikMonatik burst into the Ukrainian show business swiftly, triumphantly and as if out of nowhere, immediately starting to make music in quality comparable to European and American samples. The documentary project will tell about the artist's life even before he became famous and the most demanded Ukrainian performer.
- DirectorOlesya MorgunetsStarsIryna LazerLarysa RusnakDuring 1944-1946 more than 480,000 Ukrainians had been forced to leave the territory of modern northeastern Poland - Kholmshchyna, Nadsiannia, Pidliashshia, and Lemkivshchyna. The eyewitness tells the story of deportation and recalls terrible conditions in which she and other Ukrainians were taken from Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukStarsAnatolii SurmaBefore becoming an animator Anatolii Surma studied to be a tractor driver, and even worked in a regional road service office. His passion for animation began with The Simpsons and South Park. And while American TV series are generally created by huge studios, the distinctly recognizable characters that make up this whole absurdist world come from the hand of an amateur artist from a village in Khmelnytskyi oblast (province). Anatolii Surma never writes scripts for his cartoons. The ones he does write end up in the oven. This is a documentary about the author of the visual identity of Docudays UA Festival 2021 that reveals the secrets behind his creative process, the source of ideas and the inspiration for Anatolii Surma.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsRoman LutskyiStanislav AseyevOleksandr DanyliukUkrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life.
- DirectorAndrei ZagdanskyA "direct cinema" documentary that explores the art and inner workings of the major art institution in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two special exhibitions - one dedicated to the Ukrainian baroque and another one to a prominent avant-garde artist - are the two defining events in the film's narrative.
- DirectorEva NeymannPryvoz is one of the oldest and largest European markets. Everyone goes there, everyone finds something. Those searching for miracles or change-in destiny, human soul, time-will not leave with empty-handed.
- DirectorSolomiia TomashcukStarsAnastasiya PustovitIrma VitovskaDmitriy SovaTwo women grapple with conflicting loyalties: Sasha's devotion to her criminal husband versus ethics, and Anya's torn between protecting her son or upholding morality. Their intersecting lives fuel an intense dramatic clash.
- DirectorRita KuzmynaStarsOleksandra SokolovskaSasha is 13, she's from a rich family, spoiled by attention and parent's money. She's not the best student at school, but her biggest concern is friendship with Vilena. Vilena is 14, everyone is fond of her, but no one knows where she lives and what she does. Once Sasha invites Vilena to spend a weekend at her house. Girls are having a good time, until Vilena starts to take Sasha's place. Sasha's parents are enchanted by Vilena, by her politeness and dearness.
- DirectorMykhailo KhomaStarsViktor AndrienkoSerhiy BachykAnna ButkevichPianist-adventurer Misha gets a job with the old owner of a mysterious house-quest. But he does not know that the question "WHERE IS THE MONEY?" interested not only in him. Everyone in this house is looking for money.
- DirectorYaroslav PopovStarsNatalie YatsinaTaras ZhyrkoWhen a Canadian journalist, Sophie, travels to Ukraine to interview the best-selling historical novelist and professor, Bogdan, regarding his groundbreaking theories about Ukraine's prehistoric ancestors, she's taken on a journey through the Ice Age, to Trypillya, and finally ending in the Kingdom of Kyivska Rus, discovering that the stories of their pasts are linked through a seemingly lost amulet dating back all the way too the Ice Age.
- DirectorVitalii MalakhovIhor VysnevskyiStarsVyacheslav DovzhenkoNadiya LevchenkoAkhtem SeitablaevA historical drama dedicated to Ivan Franko's son Peter, who lived a life full of achievements and adventures.
- DirectorMariia FelenkoStarsArsenii BortnykKiril NikolaevDmytro OliynykOpenning the pages of diaries of famous people means discovering a small universe of personality. At the beginning of the 20th century, Olena Shovgenova, the daughter of a famous Russian scientist (and later the famous Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliha), found herself with her family in Kyiv, where she fell in love for the first time, but was forced to leave the city and her lover. In Czechoslovakia, the future poetess reveals a shocking fact - Ukrainian culture lives in exile. Here she falls in love with the Cossack Mykhailo Teliha, with whom she later moves to Warsaw. But the desire to return to her beloved Kyiv does not leave Olena.
- DirectorJulia DeglinaStarsArthur AliievDanylo KamenskyiMaria ShtofaStory about three young people who become friends or even more.
- DirectorNikon RomanchenkoStarsOlha-Anna KapustiakMariia KmitSolomiia KyrylovaPolia, Solomiia, Mariia play in the local theater. After the spectacle, they meet a guy and walk through the night city together. Polia seems to fall in love with him. In the morning he will leave the city and they will not see each other again.
- DirectorOleksii OvcharenkoStarsEvhen ChernykovEverything loses its meaning in Boris's life after the tragic death of his wife and now his only desire is to be with his beloved again. Her old stationary bike becomes a bridge that connects his world with the path to his wife.
- DirectorKatya TsarikStarsOlga GoldysViktoriya KarpinskaNazar KukharenkoWorse than being lonely is to be lonely next to someone you love - Waking up one morning, the young woman feels deep loneliness, which can only be dispelled by the embrace of her beloved husband. Not receiving it, she runs away from home for a day. Leaving her own problem unspoken in front of the real-life dramas she wanders around the city ready to be embraced by any stranger she meets. That stranger turns out to be her ex-lover whom she hasn't seen for a long time.
- DirectorVitalii KikotStarsAleksandr IvanovKristina LyubaOleksandr RudynskyyLove triangle between a cashier and two security guards of a small supermarket in a provincial town.
- DirectorTymofii BiniukovStarsNataliia TsymbalRoman YasinovskiyA man having PTSD is walking across a big desert. Who is he, where is he from and why is he here? Privately, however he has enough time to think about his life purpose - what he's living for and what's the reason of his fight. The answers appear at the end. But no one can guarantee he would accept them.
- DirectorVladlen OdudenkoStarsAnatoliy BabarykaDaryna FedynaAndriy RymarukAt the age of 16, Maria is in despair after the death of her mother as her life turns into hell. But she has to deal with the new circumstances. Every day turns into a trial. She is being isolated in a small apartment in one of Kyiv's Residential districts, constantly suffering from sexual abuse. Being forced into this situation yet again, Maria decides on a desperate deed to put an end to years of violence from which she has suffered.
- DirectorAnna YatsenkoStarsKsenya BashaVladimir ZaetsGordiy DzyubinskiyVictoria is a call center operator for the Psychological Support Service. She lives with a drug addict partner and dreams of reconciliation with her son, who is temporarily raised by her mother. When her partner steals the only money they've had and disappears, and her mother announces she's about to sue for the child's custody, Victoria decides that the only one way out is to commit suicide. However, at the very edge between life and death, she finds the true path to herself.
- DirectorRoman PerfilyevStarsVladyslav MatviichukIhor ChebanYelyzaveta TsilykMaks, an average resident of the "sovok" area, who together with his childhood friend Zheka goes to one of the many entrances to help buddy inject a dose of heroin. The tension of fear of being noticed leads to Maks losing the syringe, after which Zheka mysteriously disappears. The usual "panelka" entrance is more and more like the other side of hell, because it turns out that getting out of it is not easy. In search of a friend, the fear inside Maks grows as he grows around paranormal phenomena and eventually leads him to his own heroin injection. Then only God.
- DirectorDmytro KovalStarsAnton AleksahaElijah KravtsowSerge SkerbinaOne night a young dreamer goes for a walk through the deserted city, forced by obsessive thoughts. The hero submerges into the bright lights of the streets, meets strangers, listens to pieces of theirs strange conversations. However, the further his walks, the more his surrounding changes: cold buildings of the industrial zone change the streetlights' warmth, a mysterious black car starts to follow him, and the metal cranes turn into weird creatures. The hero falls deeper into his thoughts. He examines his fears and ideals, losing the line between reality and the world in his head. Will he find what made him leave his home, or maybe he will be swallowed by the surrealistic realm he encountered?
- DirectorSashko DanylenkoCat and Bat are best friends. Every day, they watch awful television, get awful ideas, and get into an awful lot of trouble. It's a story that reveal painfully funny truths about human nature.
- DirectorJulia ShalimovaObservation of one day. On this day, different people's feelings are intertwined, such as anxiety and aggression; sadness, loneliness, and indifference; there was also fun and serenity, as well as reliance on love, faith, and hope. How to feel this day? Live in a smartphone or real world? - Come outside, Masha. Feel yourself alive.
- DirectorHovhannes KhachatryanStarsViktor ZhdanovSergey ShadrinTamara MorozovaThe 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.
- DirectorDmytro FalkovskyiStarsAnastasia ShpaginaZachary ShadrinTymofii OstafiichukMaria and Mykola are ordinary students who love adventures. From experienced diggers, Mykola learned about the bunker, in which no one was. In the pursuit of popularity and fame, Mykola and Maria went there, ignoring warnings about the danger that could await them there.
- DirectorValerii HrytsenkoSolomiia TomashcukStarsAnastasiya KasilovaVasiliy KukharskiyYou can walk away from a war, but it will forever leave an imprint on your life. The main characters return to their previously familiar lives - work, family and children. But they are broken - the war has broken them.
- DirectorMyroslav LatykStarsMykhailo DziubaAnton WellboyIrma VitovskaA seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of Sveta. For the sake of his dream, he is willing to risk everything, but circumstances steer his life in a different direction.
- DirectorRoman KolohoydaStarsOleksandr KuznetsovYulia MysakHe is like a hired killer and a drug dealer. She seems to be making love for money. Coincidentally or not, but they met each other near the cafe. Then a hotel room, a walk around the city, a party and then another meeting, which, in fact, will determine whether they can be together. Only one thing is known about them: none of them have ever been to Paris.
- DirectorTaras BenyukStarsTaras BenyukAnna AndrusyshynVolodymyr TafiychukThe reality show "I'm Jealous" is being filmed at the TV studio. The management of the channel that ordered the show is not satisfied with the ratings and insists on increasing the degree of provocation. The producer of the show Anton demands from the participants to act out scenes of jealousy "on the verge of a foul". On the set, the situation is spiraling out of control. The administrative group of the show is involved in uncontrolled "games of jealousy", which makes Anton suspect: the show has a background, "invisible script" - "Show about filming the show", which is designed for elite consumers of closed sites.
- DirectorKyrylo ZemlyanyiStarsZachary ShadrinThe architecton is a suprematist architectural model. The first architectural models of this kind and the term itself appeared in 1925 - their author was Kazymyr Malevych. He believed that in the near future they could be used in the space industry as the basis for plans for space stations where people would live, as well as landing pads for such stations.
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