What Shall We Do With These Buildings?

28 minutes - Ukraine 2022

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Dghonatan Ben-Shauly

“What Shall We Do With These Buildings?” is a documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

The film was shot in September 2021, at a time when the prospect of a full-scale invasion from Russia seemed remote, but the ghost of its former rule remained written in concrete across the cityscape. The film platforms a divisive and open conversation about the city's Soviet buildings: What should be done with them? Should they be preserved, destroyed, repurposed? What power do they hold over the way people think and interact with their environment? Interwoven within this patchwork of opinion is another kind of exploration. Dance runs through the film in playful counterpoint, providing another language to articulate the ways in which buildings move bodies. Since the invasion, the film serves as a time capsule – a snapshot of an independent, hopeful Ukraine trying to find its feet, at a time when that independence has never been more threatened. It captures tensions embodied in social space right before the city descended into war, providing an insight into how Kharkiv was before the invasion; how much it has lost and stands to lose.

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Altar

Ukraine 2024

Genre DocumentaryFilm portrait

Category Full-length documentary

Director Roman Balayan

A film portrait of contemporary Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Zhyvotkov.

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Sunny

12 minutes - Ukraine 2024

Genre Comedy

Category Short

Director Sergiy Kulybyshev

A successful Instagram life coach tries to be a good single dad, even though he was raised by an abusive father. One day, his 10-year-old son declares that he wants another dad and asks to be let live with a neighbor.

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Stargazing

8 minutes - Ukraine 2024

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Anastasіya Kanaryova

A young astrophysicist in a war-torn country watches the stars and black holes, holding a dialogue with her unborn daughter about the nature of light and darkness.

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4.5.0

14 minutes - Ukraine 2023

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Anna Rura

The film tells the story of how the director's mother sends her husband off to the front. It is a film about the love of one of millions of women who live in anticipation and fear for their husbands, but it is this love that sustains and inspires them.

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Bottle

4 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Animation

Category Short animation

Director Yehor Bondarenko

A life story of a bottle that could think, feel and dream.

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The Story of One Piglet

9 minutes - Ukraine 1994

Genre AnimationTaleScreen adaptation

Category Short animation

Director Lyudmila Tkachikova

Based on the story of Yuriy Vinnychuk.

She lived in the same village as a pig that came to the royal palace, then became the leader of pirates, and then the admiral of the French fleet. The wife was the princess herself, who, of course, had to try to earn the honor of associating her fate with the pig. She even had to learn her native language and learn how to cook his favorite dish.

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The price of the head

88 minutes - RussiaUkraine 1992

Genre DetectiveScreen adaptation

Category Full-length

Director Mykola Iliinskyi

Following the novel of the same name by George Simenon (La Tête d'un homme, 1931).

Commissioner Megre is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy American woman and her maid killed in a villa. By embarking on a risky experiment, he rescues a person who has been unjustly sentenced to death. Moreover, a real criminal gets into the hands of justice.

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To get to the priest

15 minutes - Ukraine 1995

Genre Documentary and game

Category Short

Director Oleksandr Davidenko (II)

Movie 3 from the cycle Unknown Ukraine. As they once tried in Ukraine.

The events take place in one of the villages of the Dnieper in the XVII century. The role of the priest in addressing family life and morals.

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