Strong as the Earth

64 minutes - Ukraine 2023

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Lyudmila Melynik

A documentary project about ordinary extraordinary Ukrainians. About those who feel responsible for their loved ones, friends, and often even distant and unfamiliar people. About those who feel responsible for the country as a whole. Responsibility for what it is and what it will be.

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Zinema

75 minutes - UkraineLuxembourg 2024

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Kornіy Hricyuk

Zinema is a feature-length documentary which investigates propaganda, xenophobia and chauvinism in Russian cinema from the 1990s to today.

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When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea

124 minutes - GermanyUkraine 2025

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Yeva Neyman

A widow who cares for stray cats, a boy who loves the sea, a philosopher marked by life ... Eva Neymann shows the inhabitants of Odesa with gentleness and care, trying to find out what they dream of when the war has destroyed all certainty.

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The Unforgiven. Nestor Makhno

50 minutes - Ukraine 2007

Genre DocumentaryHistoricalBiographical

Director Vіktor Shkurіn (II)

A film about Nestor Makhno (1888-1934), a Ukrainian political and military figure of anarchist persuasion, founder, and commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, leader of the peasant insurgent movement of 1918-1920.

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Anna

15 minutes - IsraelUnited KingdomUkraine 2019

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Dekely Berenson

Anna is a single middle-aged mother. She lives in a small industrial city in the war-torn east of Ukraine. Anna works at a meat processing plant, lives in an old abandoned apartment and dreams of a better life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter.

The main character is desperate for change. On the radio she happens to advertise a party that is arranged for foreigners traveling in search of love. Anna has not been dating people for many years, but decides to take the opportunity.

At the party, Anna is confronted with the harsh reality of age discrimination and the true intentions of American men. And yet she unexpectedly meets her underage daughter – and she came to the party too. Mother and daughter are embarrassed, aware of the humiliation of the situation and decide to say goodbye to their dreams for a better life.

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Squares

5 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Oleh Fіlіpenko

"The world is hopelessly stupid" - that's what the movie's hero probably thinks. But it is better to keep your mind to yourself. Especially if you get a job.

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Grytsevsky Easter eggs

8 minutes - Ukraine 1995

Genre Children's

Category Short animation

Director Anatolіy Trifonov

Based on tales of Alexander Olesya.

A playful tale about a boy who, on the eve of Easter, decided to paint eggs that hatch. After painting Easter eggs Gritsko went to bed, after which he had a strange dream ...

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To Become Firm

16 minutes - Ukraine 2009

Genre Animation

Category Short animation

Director Stepan Kovaly

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Messiah, or a Town and a Half

90 minutes - United StatesUkraine

Category Full-length documentary

Director Andrіy Zahdansykiy

Drohobych, the place where Bruno Schultz was born used to be called a town and a half.
Half of the town folks were Jews, half were Poles, and the other half Ukrainians.

Now Drohobych that was part of the Austro–Hungarian Empire, then Poland, then Nazi occupied Ukraine is a small provincial town in Galicia, Ukraine. The first two halves are long gone – Jews exterminated, Poles deported to Poland.

The town that inspired “The Cinnamon Shops” has not changed a lot, just all the mansions and cobblestoned roads from the bygone have deteriorated.

They still mine salt in Drohobych, very much like six hundred years ago. And they celebrate the life and genius of Bruno Schultz during a biannual Bruno Schultz festival.

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