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July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk district of eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. Their nervous anticipation of their first child’s birth is violently disrupted as the vicinal crash of flight MH17 elevates the forbidding tension enveloping their village.Read More »
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Maryna Er Gorbach – Klondaik AKA Klondike (2022)
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Andriy Donchik – Kisnevij Golod AKA Oxygen Starvation (1992)
Drama1991-2000Andriy DonchikUkraineWarSoviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.Read More »
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Kira Muratova – Kukla AKA Doll (2008)
Kira Muratova2001-2010Short FilmUkraineFraud has always been a burning issue. The story could have taken place in any era. But the very title – “The Doll”, that is, a fake wad of money – points to our times. The character in the film is a hilarious sadist. It’s a perversion of the psyche that borders on insanity: “I hate my ex-wife so much that I’ll pretend to ennoble her and actually play a trick on her.”Read More »
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Valentyn Vasyanovych – Riven chornoho AKA Black Level (2017)
2011-2020ArthouseDramaUkraineValentyn VasyanovychQuote:
Loneliness dwells in a big city; Kostya, the wedding photographer, dwells there too. At work, he is surrounded by happy people celebrating special moments in their lives. Kostya is about to turn 50, and he is drastically losing everything he used to cherish. Will he cope with his despair and regain the joy of life?Read More » -
Oksana Kazmina – The Secret, the Girl and the Boy (2018)
2011-2020ExperimentalOksana KazminaShort FilmUkraineThe Girl and the Boy play in a garden. They are left alone there and they do not have any obligations to behave in a certain way. This gives them the freedom to create their own ways of interaction with the world. During such an interaction, adult social constructs inter-twist into weird children folklore and shift into an abstract sphere. There are secrets and various modes of being in the world of the Girl and the Boy.
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Marina Stepanska – Kanikuly AKA Holidays (2013)
2011-2020ArthouseMarina StepanskaShort FilmUkraineThis is a story of young people from nowhere, a story about anatomy of a break-up and finding yourself.Read More »
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Oksana Kazmina – Zarosli AKA Vines (2017)
EroticaExperimentalOksana KazminaUkraineVery brief description: Feminist porn with mirrors.
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The mirror stage is a phenomenon to which I assign a twofold value. In the first place, it has historical value as it marks a decisive turning-point in the mental development of the child. In the second place, it typifies an essential libidinal relationship with the body image. (Lacan, Some reflections on the Ego, 1953)Read More » -
Aleksey Solodunov & Dmitry Stoykov & Oleksandr Techynskyi – All Things Ablaze (2014)
2011-2020Aleksey SolodunovDmitry StoykovDocumentaryOleksandr TechynskyiUkraineQuote:
What does the violent heart of revolution feel like? A visceral documentary from Maidan square in the violent Ukrainian winter of 2013-14.Read More » -
Roman Bordun – The Diviners (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryExperimentalRoman BordunUkraineQuote:
The main characters of the film are the inhabitants of the contemporary Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv. Their reality is multi-layered, unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of good and evil, humanity and cruelty, charity and indifference. This story is a kaleidoscope, which features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the naïve. The honest.Read More »