Diorama

11 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Zoya LaktionovaTetyana Kornieieva

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.

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Ukrainian New Wave. Beautiful twenty years old

90 minutes - Ukraine 2019

Genre Documentary

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.

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About Mark Tulipanov, who talked with flowers

15 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Animation

Category Short animation

Director Dana Kavelіna

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.

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Movie Critics: 10, Spectators: 8.5

Weightlifter

30 minutes - UkrainePoland 2019

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

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.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 9

Volcano

103 minutes - GermanyMonacoUkraine 2018

Genre Dramedia

Category Full-length

Director Roman Bondarchuk

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.

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Movie Critics: 9, Spectators: 6.667

Hutsulka Xenya

95 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre MusicalComedy

Category Full-length

Director Olena Dem'yanenko

The literary script of the film is based on the libretto of Yaroslav Barnich's operetta of the same name.

1938. In the Carpathian village of Vorokhta, home to the most beautiful hutsulka named Xenia, former villagers arrive and nowadays are American immigrants in order to find a bride for young Yaro. He will receive his millionth inheritance, provided he marries a conscious Ukrainian. Western Ukraine has two weeks to annex ...

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Movie Critics: 8.333, Spectators: 7

Malevich

89 minutes - ItalyUkraine 2018

Genre Biographical

Category Full-length documentary

Director Volodimir LucykiyІhor Malahov (ІІ)

A story about the life and work of 20th century artist Kazimir Malevich and his influence on world culture.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 5