The sequel to the comedy The Eggsplosive Easter (Krashanka), a film about the Zabiiaka family.

After learning that their son Yarik is recovering in a military hospital, Ivan Zabiyaka sets off across Ukraine with his homemade Quantum Paradox Machine, hoping to erase the war from history. As the rest of the family travels toward Yarik, each faces personal fears and painful choices. Their journey brings them back together, proving that even in the darkest times, love, family, and hope have the power to heal.

In 1926, the city of Odessa on the Black Sea coast is a multinational medley of gangsters and sailors, security agents and world known film-makers. Here Aleksandr Dovzhenko tries to start his career as a film director. “Red producer” Pavlo Nechesa gave him chance to make THE DIPLOMATIC POUCH, a detective and action movie based on the screenplay by the 20- year-old Jewish shoemaker Moses Zats. Dovzhenko likes the screenplay. He starts to gather his film crew and the actors. During the process, Dovzhenko meets interesting and colorful local characters, sailors, tango dancers, boxers.  All of them will play roles in his film. In these days, Director also meets his love – the Russian star actress Julia Solntseva. Julia likes him, but she must decide – to stay with Alexandr in Odessa or stay in Moscow to work with Sergey Eisenstein. She chooses to leave for Moscow.

Finally, Dovzhenko gathers a solid crew and superb actors. Everything is ready to shoot a great film. But when the young director starts shooting, the Che-ka (the Soviet Political Police before KGB), find some documents that confirm Dovzhenko’s participation in Civil War against the Soviet regime. A Che-ka courier must deliver the compromising document to Odessa. The Che-ka is planning to arrest the Director. Dovzhenko’s friends ask local retired Jew David for help to steal the documents. David is an old retired Jewish gangster.  The gangsters start their action while Dovzhenko could be arrested by the Che-Ka at any moment. The gangsters work with an old map, a plan of the famous Odessa catacombs. They follow the courier underground and intercept the case with the incriminating documents after a wild chase above and below the city. Che-Ka officers are also waiting for the courier. There is a shootout, and the gangsters not only steal the case, but also kidnap the courier. At the same time, Dovzvenko is filming the last frame of his film. He manages to finish his film under these difficult conditions. On the day of the premiere, the young director obtains his best prize: Julia Solntseva has come back to Odessa to be with him.

During an expedition, a young photographer miscalculates the time and misses her ride back to the city. At a bus stop, she meets a young man celebrating his birthday. With curfew approaching, the two strangers are forced to spend the night together at a roadside hotel.

The film was included in the anthology of short films Ukrainian New Wave: Сoming Together.

While cruising through the nocturnal streets of Kyiv, Anna, a woman who stops and films passing men, unexpectedly encounters a soldier. They start to discuss the men she observed.

The film was included in the anthology of short films Ukrainian New Wave: Сoming Together.

Once upon a time, there were two best friends, Kotyk (Kitty) and Pesyk (Doggie). They loved watching cartoons together and eating cereal with milk. Until one day, their house was flooded.

The film was included in the anthology of short films ‘Ukrainian New Wave: Сoming Together’.

Artem, a young documentary filmmaker, runs after elderly men with his camera rolling, driven by a maniacal desire to capture a ‘real person’, to explore ‘their little world’ and their loneliness.

In the end, Artem manages to track down a pensioner called Victor — a truly ordinary, unremarkable man with greying hair and glasses. That said, Grandad Victor isn’t exactly lonely: he has a family, a rather feisty grandson called Andriy, and, most importantly, a male hamster named Kristina.

The more time passes, the deeper Artem delves into Viktor’s ‘little world’, until suddenly, whilst out fishing together, instead of the coveted crucial carp, they pull up a mine, and Christina becomes the victim of the explosion. And so the game that had captivated these two very different people take a completely different turn . . .

The film was included in the anthology of short films Ukrainian New Wave: Сoming Together.

An anthology of Ukrainian short films seeks to answer the question: how can we love and forge new bonds in a society scarred by war? 

Films by young Ukrainian directors highlight how our hard-won resilience has not diminished people’s need for one another, but has only strengthened it. This edition of the ‘Ukrainian New Wave’ film festival reflects how, instantly, we all became familiar strangers, sharing common plans, goals, and dreams.

The anthology features award-winning films from international and Ukrainian film festivals, ambitious debuts, and student films:

• It's Over Now
• Kotyk and Pesyk Seeking Home
• Natural Balance
• Shrimp, Switch, Cigarette Butt & a Little Bottle
• Prelude
• Curfew