Hundred Bucks

92 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Comedy

Category Full-length

Director Oleksandr Bielyak

A young supermarket worker, Leopold Baranovsky, becomes the owner of an unusual jacket, in which one hundred dollar bills never end. The lives of Leopold and his best friend Lecha were littered with new colors – restaurants, boutiques, new cars and just about anything their soul desires.

But the jacket has a real master – Victor Khmara (candidate for mayor of a large coastal city). He uses all the power and connections to find the precious thing. Leopold is ready to return the thing to the owner, but suddenly learns that the hundred-dollar bills, before appearing in the jacket pocket, must disappear from another person's pocket. Because of the wild lives of Leopold and Lech, thousands of people have already lost money, and what happens when a jacket falls into the hands of Victor, who is vying for power?

There is a daunting task for friends – to prevent Victor from winning the election and not to let him go bankrupt throughout the country.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 3

Breathless

12 minutes - RussiaUnited StatesUkraine 2018

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Oleksіy Soboliev (II)

A dedicated, synchronized swimmer is trying to win and coach's heart.

The film is part of an almanac of short films Summer. Top. Love.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 8

My University

30 minutes - ItalyUkraine 2014

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Iryna Pravylo

The third part of cinematography My childhood.

Based on a story by Italian writer Nino Palumbo.

A 15-year-old Giovanni, with his mother, two brothers, an older sister and a little niece, were forced to leave their native town in southern Italy and move to Tuscany. The guy reads the Divine Comedy book by Dante Alighieri, which he inherited from his father.
After the death of the pope during World War II, the boy tries to make sense of the profound implications of the work of the famous Florentine. But understanding Aligieri's literary journey is not so easy for a teenager, especially when filled with commentary and references to other writer's works. One day, Giovanni learns from his older brother that the town has a large library in the old castle and decides to look for answers there. In the library, the boy not only answers his questions, but also the real first teacher, who will become a guide in cognition and open the boy his university.

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Mammoth effect

3 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Animation

Category Short animation

Director Vladek Zankovsky

Since ancient times, two nations have been fighting a fierce struggle for power, without even realizing where it all began…

The film is part of the short UA film short film Best UA Shorts.

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My Childhood

85 minutes - ItalyUkraineGeorgia 2017

Genre Drama

Director Iryna Pravylo

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The Line

113 minutes - SlovakiaUkraine 2017

Genre CrimeThriller

Category Full-length

Director Peter Beb'yak

Summer 2007. In a few months, Slovakia will join the Schengen area to work on strengthening the Ukrainian-Slovak border. An intense period begins for Adam Krainyak, father of a large family and head of an organized crime group in the Eastern Border Territory – his eldest daughter Lucius marries a local thief Ivor, Ukrainian partner Yona wants to start her own business and a new kind of goods appears on the border – drugs. Closing the border is approaching, overall tensions are rising and growing into paranoia after a failed smuggling of cigarettes, resulting in Krainyak becoming the debtor of the Ukrainian boss Krull, whom everyone fears.

The plot mosaic is complemented by Krainyak's mother, the unofficial queen of the family business, Anna, a corrupt police captain Bernard and Assad, an expatriate from Afghanistan, and his full disagreement with traveling to Europe. The moment all the story lines intersect, death appears on the border. And here begins the carousel of tense, absurd and tragic events that lead to unexpected revelations and casualties. Krynyak pays for his actions, having lost his family he realizes that the only way out of the enchanted circle is to cross all borders. Criminal history with elements of thriller and black humor takes place in a special and mystical space that combines cultures, dialects, customs, miracles and human destinies.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 7.667

Talk to me

15 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Katerina Lesik

Based on the story of Yaroslav Melnik.

Almost every day Sergei communicates with his father, however, these are only telephone conversations. They have not seen each other for 7 years. The main character basically does not want to take the first step and expects his dad to do it. However, having learned that he is seriously ill, he still breaks through the principle and goes to his father for support. But there is an unexpected blow awaiting him.

The film is part of the short UA film short film Best UA Shorts.

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Best UA Shorts

80 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Drama

Short films include the film almanac:

 

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Pendulum

5 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Melodrama

Category Short

Director Olyha Popova (II)

The married man returns after working the tram. When he travels home, he imagines the sadness known to the smallest details of the evening's ending. When he comes home, he discovers that the monotonous course of events in his life is disturbed. He sees this as a gift of fate and decides to change them with his wife's boring life.

The film is part of the short UA film short film Best UA Shorts.

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