Ukraine

  • Serhiy Pashchenko – The Beard AKA Barada (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseSerhiy PashchenkoUkraine

    “A clever parody on a foreign film.”Read More »

  • Sergei Loznitsa – V tumane AKA In the Fog (2012)

    2011-2020DramaSergei LoznitsaUkraineWar

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    Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A train is derailed not far from the village, where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with his family. Innocent Sushenya is arrested with a group of saboteurs, but the German officer makes a decision not to hang him with the others and sets him free. Rumours of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly, and partisans Burov and Voitik arrive from the forest to get revenge. As the partisans lead their victim through the forest, they are ambushed, and Sushenya finds himself one-to-one with his wounded enemy. Deep in an ancient forest, where there are neither friends nor enemies, and where the line between treason and heroism disappears, Sushenya is forced to make a moral choice under immoral circumstances.Read More »

  • Nariman Aliev – Evge (2019)

    2011-2020DramaNariman AlievUkraine

    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.

    10 wins & 23 nominations.Read More »

  • Vladimir Denisenko – Sovist AKA Conscience (1968)

    1961-1970UkraineVladimir DenisenkoWar

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    The story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them. What would your conscience tell you to do if the choice was between your own life and that of an entire village? Conscience is a striking combination of expressionistic, metaphorical images and dramaturgic realism, and the soundtrack darkens the mood. Due to the film’s themes, it did not see wide release until perestroika. Made by students of the directing-acting workshop of Vladimir Denisenko at the Kiev National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, it was only allowed to be made because it was never to be screened. Nowadays, the film is considered a classic of Ukrainian cinema.Read More »

  • Rollan Sergiyenko – Belye tuchi AKA Bili Khmary AKA White Clouds (1968)

    1961-1970DramaRollan SergienkoUkraine

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    THE LOST MASTERPIECE OF SOVIET CINEMA

    Belye Tuchi – or as it should be called, Bili Khmary – is a movie that has somehow got lost and is now all but forgotten. The title is usually translated into English as White Clouds but it’s really closer to something like “the dark clouds are coming” but any translation will be miss the correct subtle meaning. The movie was directed by the Ukrainian Rollan Serhiienko, although IMDb mistakenly lists him as Sergiyenko. He was better known as a documentary film maker and later made the award winning Bell of Chernobyl. His career as a feature film director only produced two movies of which this is the best.Read More »

  • David Cherkasskiy – Misteriya-Buff AKA Mystery-Bouffe (1969)

    1961-1970AnimationDavid CherkasskiyPoliticsUkraine


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    In Mystery-Bouffe (1918), a religious mystery play which mocked religion, the poet described a struggle between two groups, the “Unclean” working class and the “Clean” upper class. The earth has been destroyed by a flood, the survivors seek refuge at the North Pole. The “Unclean” defeat the “Clean” and create a workers’ paradise on Earth, where people “will live in warmth / and light, having hade electricity / move in waves.”Read More »

  • Dmytro Kolomoytsev & Anatoliy Lavrenishyn – Ukrayinska literatura AKA Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes (2009)

    2001-2010Anatoliy LavrenishynComedyDmytro KolomoytsevShort FilmUkraine

    It was a common habit in Soviet schools to draw the intimate organs on all portraits in textbooks.Read More »

  • Marysia Nikitiuk – Koly padayut dereva AKA When the trees fall (2018)

    2011-2020DramaMarysia NikitiukUkraine

    The story of a five year old little rebellious girl Vitka with her teenage cousin Larysa and her boyfriend, the young criminal Scar unfolds in a Ukrainian provincial setting. Larysa finds herself at a crossroads after the death of her father. Yearning to be self made, the village community ostracizes her for loving Scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrificed her love for a young gypsy abandoning him for traditional values and other people’s opinions. Larysa’s mother is too psychologically weak to support her daughter. Larysa and Scar plan to escape from a life of crime, misery and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for freedom?Read More »

  • Sergei Loznitsa – Donbass (2018) (HD)

    2011-2020DramaSergei LoznitsaUkraine

    When war is called peace, when propaganda is uttered as truth, when hatred is declared to be love, then life itself begins to resemble death. In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside mass scale robberies perpetrated by gangs.Read More »

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