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.

A 21-year-old woman goes missing in Rivne, and it is only a month later that her mother discovers the terrible secret behind her disappearance. This crime drama might never have happened, as the system is supposed to protect citizens who seek help.

In another part of the country, in the city of Dnipro, a 30-year-old woman faces a choice: to trust a system that ignores complaints, or to protect her family herself. When she goes to the police, she is told: ‘No crime, no punishment.’

Domestic violence and gender-based violence — these terms are now appearing in Ukrainian legislation, yet this does little to help our heroines.

The investigative documentary "Stop Me If You Can" tells interwoven stories of domestic violence that highlight the indifference of the law enforcement system and show how minor mistakes by those who are supposed to protect people can lead to major tragedies.

Ukraine, our days. In the late autumn, 42-year-old Marat is bought out of captivity by Aleksandrovych, an influential man from his past and a sports club mentor. So Marat returns to his hometown, where he has not been for many years. And he loses his freedom.

Marat is lonely, withdrawn, and focused. He rents a room, works at a school as a guard and a stoker.

One day, at a bus stop, a stranger stops Marat with a clear, distinctive gesture: Aleksandrovych offers Marat a job that will not be difficult for him, the commander of a reconnaissance company… Marat is forced to accept — and asks that the payment be handed over to his parents.

At the railway station, on the train, Marat meets his old school sweetheart, Marta. Long ago, he left for the big city, and she was waiting for him, but he never called her back. In a few hours of night travel, Marat imagines a family, a house, and a quiet, happy life. And when he says goodbye on the platform, he dictates to Marta a phone number that does not exist.

The outskirts of the city, the square, is where a pre-election rally and concert are planned. Marat looks around at the police cordon, fences and plainclothes men. He is taken to an apartment in a neighboring building, where a table is set in the kitchen. There is a cellar under the room, a basement beyond, a corridor, and a narrow shelf by the window. A sniper rifle is ready on the shelf.

The rally is about to begin.

With his finger on the trigger, Marat decides to miss…

A film about Ihor Kirilchatenko, a volunteer, veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, actor, and director from Dnipro, known by his pseudonym Artist. 

After being wounded and suffering from depression, the man found the strength to return to life through creativity and founded the independent patriotic theatre Art Front – a space for healing, recovery and the search for meaning for veterans.

The film centres on the creation of the play Loud Silence of War, dedicated to soldiers who lost their hearing during combat. It is an inclusive cathartic performance that combines theatre, poetry, pantomime, modern technology and video projections. It immerses the viewer in the world of a person who has survived concussion, their conversations with Death and Life, forcing them to see that war does not end where the explosions subside.