“Hedgehog in Africa” - musical adventures cartoon for the youngest; because this continent attracts everyone - beasts, pirates, children...and cinematographers.

The beginning of author’s story was laid by "Hedgehog in Love" cartoon (2015). Continuation - a short "Hedgehog in Africa" painted by children with the participation of professional animators. Film is created in various techniques: dolls, painted, and stop motion animations.

About the largest steppe reserve in Europe, located in the south of Ukraine, not far from the village of Askania-Nova.

In Askania-Nova, various types of animals and people with completely different characters are consumed. Director of the Reserve Viktor Semenovich communicates with buffaloes, zebras and pelicans, as if with humans. For a former employee of Mr. Nicholas, this place has become a refuge from the cynicism of the outside world. A young scientist, Pasha, counts birds for days and makes friends with local rappers until he faces a difficult life choice. For a whole century, Askania-Nova has been protecting nature from human-induced change. But will she accept the changes necessary for her own survival?

The film is about the fate of the abandoned city of Polesie from the exclusion zone.

Polissya was the second largest city in the Chornobyl region, after the Pripyat region, but it was not displaced for 13 years after the disaster. The authorities created conditions for people to remain; moreover, they even built new homes in the city for those displaced from Pripyat. All this time, the residents were not informed of the 10x excess of the radiation background. Resettlement only ended in 1999.

Life flows with its everyday reality, but suddenly something imperceptibly changes its course. All that remains is to immerse yourself in the memories in which everything is kept intact, as if in a museum. Mariupol is a spa town. The sea is the joy of swimming and relaxing. Suddenly, there is war in this picture, which has been the same for many years.

The film is a part of the short film short film Ukrainian New Wave. Beautiful twenty years old.

Collection of the best Ukrainian short films of 2018, marked by the awards of prestigious Ukrainian and international festivals.

Weightlifter
Mia Donna
In joy and only in joy
About Mark Tulipanov, who talked with flowers
Diorama

Ukrainian New Wave is a project of presenting the best short films by Ukrainian debutants this year. Launched by the National Center of Alexander Dovzhenko in 2012, it annually presents the best short films by young Ukrainian directors who have been screened and received at national and international film festivals.

Mark L. Tulipanov was born and raised in Lugansk. He thinks he is buried there. He has a garden, children and a grandson he loves very much, as well as a cat Donbass and a dog Malva. The political transformations of 2014 are changing the habitual way of life as he watches his family split into friends. Mark Lvovich is convinced that he will live to age at home, but when the war comes to Lugansk, he is forced to leave, leaving the garden, the cat and the dog. But this unfortunate new life does not end ...

The film is a part of the short film short film Ukrainian New Wave. Beautiful twenty years old.

The story of a weight-lifter athlete preparing for a prestigious international championship and trying to cope with the psychological difficulties that arise in dealing with a loved one and loved ones.

The film is a part of the short film short film Ukrainian New Wave. Beautiful twenty years old.

Lucas is experiencing a midlife crisis. He works as an interpreter at the OSCE Kiev office and goes to the Crimea border as part of a monitoring mission. After several strange coincidences, Lucas is left alone in a small town in southern Ukraine. Not knowing where to go, he finds himself in the house of a local weirdo named Vova. Following Vova, Lucas slowly sinks into the life of the Ukrainian province, into a world beyond his imagination, where things seem completely detached from all logic or structure.

In these strange places where people find happiness in the simplest, often illusory things, where the past, present and future are intertwined, where every day can be the last, Lucas gets a chance to start life again.