Ukraine

  • Ady Walter – Shttl AKA SHTTL (2022)

    2021-2030Ady WalterDramaUkraine

    A filmmaker returns from Kyiv to his rural village to marry the love of his life. He is expected to marry the Rabbi’s daughter, which disrupts the balance of the whole town. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a day in the life of a Jewish village before it disappears. SHTTL is the story of the inhabitants of a Yiddish Ukrainian village at the border of Poland, 24 hours before the Nazi invasion, known as Operation Barbarossa. Today, there are no such villages in existence; the production fully reconstructed a traditional ‘Shtetl’ outside of Kyiv. Following the filming, the set was to be turned into a museum but has since been destroyed in the ongoing political crisis between Russia and Ukraine.Read More »

  • Antonio Lukich – Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022)

    2021-2030Antonio LukichComedyDramaUkraine

    Mykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.Read More »

  • Ivan Mikolaychuk – Vavilon XX AKA Babylon XX (1983)

    1971-1980DramaIvan MikolaychukUkraine

    The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.Read More »

  • Marcus Lenz & Mila Teshaieva – When Spring Came to Bucha (2022)

    Marcus Lenz2021-2030DocumentaryUkraine
    When Spring Came to Bucha (2022)
    When Spring Came to Bucha (2022)

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    Locals emerge from their shelters, corpses are lying in the streets of Bucha. The trauma is clear to see. But life needs to go on. At first, all is despair-But these Ukrainians reveal their resilience.Russians bombarded Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin and other cities in the region following their invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. By the time they retreated a month later, the damage was huge: buildings had been destroyed and there were corpses lying in the streets. Filmmakers Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz went in immediately, in time to film local people emerging from their shelters, but never showing the actual atrocities. That wasn’t necessary, as the trauma of war is clear to see on everyone’s faces, including those of the volunteers who rushed in from far and wide to help. Read More »

  • Elwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosolowski – Syndrom Hamleta AKA The Hamlet Syndrome (2022)

    Elwira Niewiera2021-2030DocumentaryPiotr RosolowskiUkraine
    Syndrom Hamleta (2022)
    Syndrom Hamleta (2022)

    A group of young Ukrainians is preparing a modern stage version of Hamlet. Their goal is to use their own wartime experiences and traumas to relate to Shakespeare’s play.Read More »

  • Ady Walter – Shttl (2022)

    2021-2030Ady WalterDramaUkraine
    Shttl (2022)
    Shttl (2022)

    The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.Read More »

  • Antonio Lukich – Moyi dumky tykh AKA My Thoughts Are Silent (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020Antonio LukichArthouseComedyUkraine
    Moyi dumky tykh (2019)
    Moyi dumky tykh (2019)

    My Thoughts Are Silent (Ukrainian: «Мої думки тихі», romanized: Moi dumky tykhi) is a Ukrainian comedy-drama film by director Antonio Lukich.

    A sound engineer tries to record the song of a rare bird that dwells in the Ukrainian Carpathians.Read More »

  • Sergey Rakhmanin – Chelovek K AKA K Man (1992)

    Drama1991-2000Sergey RakhmaninUkraine
    Chelovek K (1992)
    Chelovek K (1992)

    The main character, which is a prototype of Kafka, is on his way to achieving true self-cognition. The impetus for this was vague childhood memories associated with emotions, as well as the identification of his identity with certain images at that period. He is facing an internal conflict, tearing him apart, between creativity and reality that are not compatible with each other.Read More »

  • Mstyslav Chernov – 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

    2021-2030DocumentaryMstyslav ChernovPoliticsUkraine
    20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
    20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

    A team of Ukrainian journalists from The Associated Press (AP) trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more. After nearly a decade covering international conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war for the AP, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL is Mstyslav Chernov’s first feature length film. Drawing on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and personal footage of his own country at war, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL is a vivid, harrowing account of civilians caught in the siege, as well as a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone, and the impact of such journalism around the globe.Read More »

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