Dear Valia

22 minutes - Ukraine 2011

Genre DocumentaryFilm portrait

Category Short documentary

Director Svіtlana Timoshenko

A film portrait of the Ukrainian actress and professor Valentina Zimnia.

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Photo

15 minutes - Ukraine 2013

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Anatoliy Maksymiyuk

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Khayt

9 minutes - Ukraine 2022

Genre Mockumentary

Category Short documentary

Director Sashko Protyah

Mockumentary on the post-industrial future of Mariupol. The authors imagine what the city would be like with the developed culture of the Azov Greeks, the ethnic population of the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. The plot develops in 2068 in Mariupol, where a musician from Rotterdam arrives. They participate in an art residency organized by a local institution such as the Centre for Industrial Heritage (CIS).


The film was included in the anthology of short films Ukrainian New Wave: Before Dawn.

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Chance

13 minutes - Ukraine 2010

Genre DramaSocial

Category Short

Director Oleksandr Fomіchov

 

A mother learns that she is seriously ill with cancer. Meanwhile, the son receives an invitation to participate in a festival. When he learns of his mother's illness, he begins preparing for the festival in order to win the money needed for her treatment.

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12 minutes - Ukraine 2016

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Stanislav Kholodnyi

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Sanatorium

90 minutes - FranceIrelandUkraine 2025

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Gar O'Rurk

On the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, stands Kuyalnyk Sanatorium—a large 1970s building that’s part hotel and part medical retreat. Each summer, thousands of Ukrainians travel to the sanatorium, drawn by Soviet-era therapies and the chance to relax beside the salt lake. The biggest attraction, though, is the mysterious black mud, which is said to cure infertility, physical disabilities, and various other ailments. 

Sanatorium takes us through a summer season at this unusual place, following the staff as they work hard to provide care, comfort, and entertainment for visitors—even as the war rages nearby. For the guests, it's a time to seek healing, love, and renewal. Despite the airstrikes close by, there’s something about the pastel pink and lime green halls of the sanatorium that keeps drawing people back. Maybe it’s the hope of rejuvenation, or maybe it’s something hidden in the mud...

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Daoist Looking Back

7 minutes - Ukraine 1998

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Maksim Surkov

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Bond

30 minutes - GermanyUkraine 2018

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Zhanna Ozirna

Your family can accept that you’re not like others. But could you accept that your family is normal? It’s a story of one coming out that has lasted for a year. 

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Cold rain of loneliness

24 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Oleh Pavlyuchenkov

Actions take place in a village far removed from civilization. The main characters are a married couple and a boy who lives with his grandmother.

Local residents talk daily about household chores. And at the same time, there is a world of unusual young people who enjoy nature and do not see the earthly problems that the locals see, as old women think. For a young couple, this is a new experience and a new life. A young man, an engineer by education, shares with his boyfriend the idea of ​​a unique new home, balanced in functionality and naturalness. She gives the boy some advice on the balance of his plane's flight, which constantly crashes upon launch. But in a new world of dreams of a young couple comes war - a young man is taken to the ATO zone…

The film is part of the short film almanac On Its Land.

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Seven to forty

77 minutes - Ukraine 1992

Genre Comedy

Category Full-length

Director Oleksandr Yeremieiev

An expat group traveling to the United States accidentally hits an uninhabited island. Torn away from the civilized world, they begin to build "their America."

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