The Choice

5 minutes - Ukraine 2021

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Yurіy Palivoda

I wish life was like a movie - I could rewind and do it differently. Unfortunately, life always gives us only one correct option, and we never know in advance which of all the options is right. The heroine of this movie has made her choice. But is it the right one?

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The Tale of Igor's Campaign

100 minutes - Ukraine

Genre HistoricalAction movieScreen adaptation

Category Full-length

Director Taras Tomenko

A film adaptation of the late 12th-century epic poem The Tale of Igor's Campaign.

The year is 1185. Prince Igor leads a campaign against the Cumans and Polovtsians, despite an ancient prophecy predicting his death. During the campaign, he falls into the trap of Khan Konchak, his wife is surrounded by the Polovtsians, and Igor himself is taken prisoner. In captivity, the prince faces moral and physical trials, refuses to renounce his homeland and family, and defeats the most powerful warrior of the East.

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Famine '33

115 minutes - Ukraine 1991

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Olesy Yanchuk

According to Vasyl Barka county Yellow Prince.

After the victory of the Communists in the Russian Empire in 1917, the UNR army was defeated by the Red Army and forcibly included in the Soviet Union. As soon as Stalin established himself in power in the late 1920s, by his orders, the Communist Party, by systematic terror, established control over all aspects of social and political life in Ukraine. The Ukrainian peasantry was the first victim of a new ruling power, as rebellions against the Communists continued and threatened to overthrow the Communist government. In 1932, the Moscow Decree came out, costing the lives of millions. Despite the harvest year, people were taking away all their supplies and, in addition, all their food and livestock, arguing that they were creating collective farms. Subsequently, when people were left with nothing, they began to search for the remains of seeds in the fields, and came out the law of spikelets for which there was a shooting. So people ate weeds and mice, and then cannibalism began.

In the plot of the story, in the center of this tragedy was an ordinary peasant family – children, father and wife and their old mother, who soon began to bear the first loss of starvation ... The first to die weak children. And the tragedy will see this viewer through the eyes of a hungry child.

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My boy

20 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Taras Denysenko

A social drama about a father-son relationship.

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Igor Shamo. Postlude

56 minutes - Ukraine 2014

Genre Biographical

Category Full-length documentary

Director Yulia Lazarevska

The film is about the famous Ukrainian composer Igor Shamo (1825-1982). The choirs rehearse a fragment of the folklore opera Yatran Games that was never put on in the life of the composer. The authors of the film offer their audiovisual solution to the opera fragments.

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The Spirit of the Forest

24 minutes - Ukraine 2019

Genre Fantasy

Category Short

Director Maksim Donchik (II)

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Somnambulist

12 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Experimental

Category Short

Director Marina Hrishay

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Mother. In the Name of the Millions

23 minutes - UkraineEstonia 2014

Genre DramaWarScreen adaptation

Category Short

Director Vyacheslav (Slavik) Bihun

Based on O. Dovzhenko's story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of the Ukrainian mother.

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Has-Beens

11 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Olena MoskalychukDmitro Burko

The Petrovka Book Market in Kiev is a place where old and unnecessary books are taken away. Sellers in this market are "old-fashioned" people who still see the book as a kind of currency.

The film is part of an almanac of short films Local.

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