Holodomor-1933. Testimony of Mariia Vasylivna Nosach

14 minutes - Ukraine 2008

Genre Chronicle-documentary

Director Oleksandr Mohnatko

A documentary featuring testimonies from people who remember the 1933 famine in Ukraine.

The Holodomor was a mass-scale, man-made famine organised in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932–1933 by the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the government of the USSR. Ukraine was the hardest hit, with millions of people dying of starvation. This famine has been recognised as genocide against the Ukrainian people. According to demographic estimates, the total number of victims of the Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR is 3–7 million people. According to estimates by the M. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine’s demographic losses as a result of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 amount to approximately 4.5 million people, including 3.9 million due to excess mortality and a further 600,000 due to a birth deficit.

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Ukraine

Genre Science fictionDrama

Category Full-length

Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Dialogue with parents and intergenerational understanding are painful topics for many families. Parents and children, separated by time and space, often inflict psychological trauma on one another. Is it possible to overcome this by standing on the same social footing? Alex and Dan are a married couple facing a difficult move. Alex’s father, who left the family and disappeared many years ago, reappears in their lives.

This is a science fiction story about human cloning, the relationship between a daughter and her father, and coming to terms with past traumas using the technologies of the future.

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Silent Terror. Chronicles of Hell

75 minutes - Ukraine 2022

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Yelizaveta Tatarіnova

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One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas

8 minutes - FranceUkraine 2022

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Marta Smerechinsyka

There is a washing machine wrapped in tape, metres-long indoor plants and their roots, and children's drawings among hundreds of boxes on which the addresses of Ukrainian cities are written. This place resembles a warehouse of lost things. 

The silence is broken by a woman's voice, that of the owner of one of these boxes. She is bidding farewell to her home in Kyiv, speaking of the belongings she left behind. Each item has a story, a memory that is being left behind. Through her words the home seems to come alive, each item imbued with a sense of warmth and familiarity. 

People begin to appear in the so-called warehouse, taking their pieces of home in the form of parcels. They sift through the boxes, searching for their treasured possessions. Some are filled with joy, others with sadness. 

Meanwhile a woman's voice questions: does the loss of belongings matter?

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Abducted Childhood

47 minutes - Ukraine 2023

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Vasily Mosіychuk

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Eternal Ray

Ukraine

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

A young man, Max returns from the war. His psychologist and friends try to help him smoothly socialize and return to normal (ordinary) life, but the young veteran has a hard time with this (because of panic attacks).

In addition to all his problems, Max gradually loses his eyesight.He becomes emotionally attached to a 12-year-old neighbor girl, Lisa and wants to help her cope with her difficult life circumstances.

Eventually, having lost his sight completely, Max has to go through a difficult journey in search of a new meaning in life.

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Silent Flood

90 minutes - GermanyUkraine 2025

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

A pacifist community with unique religious beliefs, living in a picturesque river canyon in western Ukraine, is seeing their peaceful way of life gradually eroded. This closed religious community, located on the banks of the Dniester River, lives by its own strict rules, cut off from the outside world. For example, they do not use electricity or modern medicine, they do not marry outside the community, they do not join the army, and they do not take up arms.

The community's attempts to distance themselves from the outside world are often disrupted by the annual floods that take everything in their path and change the landscape of the rural shores.  

As an even more devastating “flood” approaches Ukraine, the war with Russia leaves the community with no choice but to unite and ignore their beliefs, and the villagers gradually begin to go against their own rules, joining with the outside world to help in the fight against the enemy.

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Birds & Beasts. The Universe of Hnizdovsky

70 minutes - Ukraine 2025

Genre Documentary

Director Nadia Parfan

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