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Mavka: The Forest Song

Mavka — a Soul of the Forest and its Warden — faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as guardian to the Heart of the Forest, when she falls in love with a human — the talented young musician Lukas.

Early Swallows

The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is rarely portrayed on Ukrainian television-alcoholic parents, and speech disabilities. In one of the show's main plot lines, the main characters are stalked on the Internet by an anonymous person who pretends to be their friend.

Servant of the People

Modest and humble teacher Vasily is caught on camera raging over the miserable situation in his country. When a pupil posts the video on Youtube, it becomes a viral sensation. Everybody loves Vasily’s outrage and people start gathering money for a presidential campaign. Which he wins! Servant of the People follows Vasily’s new life as president; he has no interest in changing his life, he wants to stay the same, live in his flat with his parents, borrow money from his friends at the end of ...

Sniper: The White Raven

Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins at Donbass, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy. He’s saved from a senseless death by his instructor who himself gets mortally wounded. The death of a ...

Following the Paths of Kyiv Beaches

Sketches from the overcrowded beaches of Kyiv, where a lot of people die every year. The spotlight is on Dmytro, a beach patrol supervisor, who wants to change the horrible statistics. Will he succeed?

Ballroom King

Ivan’s Land

Ivan 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.

Salt from Bonneville

The 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 ...

Territory of Empty Windows

World War II and the plant caused my mother's family to move to Ma-riupol. The war with Russia and the environmental consequences of the plant's operation play a key role in its future life.

Teofipol Welcomes Guests

Before 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 ...

Dovbush

Sensitive Material

In a painful conversation, fifty-year-old Lilia speaks of her mental trauma as a result of her parents’ constant disputes during her childhood, while her mother justifies the lack of love by the strict frames of a totalitarian society.

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For the first time in several years, a father with his son decided to have dinner together. Will they be able to find a common language?

Batik’s Room

We meet 16-year-old Fedot as he strangles himself with a string, standing in front of a mirror. The doorbell rings. Two girlfriends come to visit him. Kiri is 16, she is sexy and cheeky. Dini is 14, she is melancholic and cannot speak after a psychological trauma. Teenagers drink Papa Carlo cocktail. Fedot's mother, who recently moved to Kyiv with her lover, is calling via Skype. She does not know that Batik (Fedot's father) went to the store forty days ago and disappeared.

Thoughts in the forest

A man comes to an isolated forest to confront his troubled relationship with his girlfriend and brother.

Women Who Play

This a playful film bringing us back to childhood, where everything started. It portraits seven girls who have grown up and who now "rock". They won't be talking about success, but they are the ones who know the rules of the game, and who also know how to violate them correctly. The film is a collective portrait of seven outstanding women in modern Ukrainian culture: writer Sofia Adrukhovych, cultural journalist Vira Baldyniuk, conductor Oksana Lyniv, artist Alina Kleytman, theatre director ...

Deportation. 44-46

During 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.

My Thoughts Are Silent 2

MonoKate

Documentary about Go_A’s lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko

The Holocaust. Certified crime

Total COPastrophe

Presidential 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.

Paperushka

Iva comes to an authentic and picturesque provincial town in the mountains, where forgotten places have a warm scent of the past, lighting up a desire to bring back her first love, Boris, who is preparing for marriage. Contrary to the social norms, Iva goes right into the very heart of the events, the wedding ceremony, to archive her goal, but who knows how it will turn out.