Donbass

121 minutes - GermanyNetherlandsFranceUkraineRomania 2018

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Serhіy Loznicya

Thirteen short stories based on documentary material show a panorama of life in the occupied territories of eastern Ukraine, when power institutions, family and professional ties break up, when things cease to be called by their names.

Several heroes relate the episodes to each other and pass on to each other, like a baton, the attention of viewers. Green Men can't remember the name of their hometown here. A German journalist is greeted at a post with a cry of fascist caught!. Here they celebrate weddings and arrange street massacres, expropriate cars and money for the benefit of the republics, live in cellars, escaping from shelling.

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Rating

Movie Critics: 9, Spectators: 7.667

When the Trees Fall

88 minutes - UkrainePolandNorth Macedonia 2018

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Marisya Nіkіtyuk

The events of the film take place in the Ukrainian province, where the story of 5-year-old rebellious Branch, her cousin-teenage sister Larissa and her beloved young bandit Scar unfolds.

After the death of her father, Larissa faces the question of her future. Larissa wants to do her fortune with her own hands, but for her love of the Scarf she is condemned by her family. A grandmother who is worried only by what people say and is exhausted by Larissa's mother pushes her into a stereotypical life scenario. Larissa and Scar are planning to run away from bandits, devastation and relatives together.

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Rating

Movie Critics: 10, Spectators: 8

Mia Donna

16 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Tragicomedy

Category Short

Director Pavlo Ostrіkov

Oksana and Tolik are a couple who have lived together for almost 30 years. Oksana, as the dominant woman in the family, considers Tolik completely independent. Choosing clothes at the Khmelnytsky Bazaar, she asks her husband to wear a T-shirt. He reluctantly steps into the blind and turns into a seven-year-old boy. Doctors are powerless and no one can bring him back. Oksana clings to old life, but the problem is more serious than she thought.

The film is a part of the short film short film Ukrainian New Wave. Beautiful 20s and Summer. Top. Love.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 9.5

Graduation '97

19 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Dramedia

Category Short

Director Pavlo Ostrіkov

Telemaster Roman makes his living by repairing TVs and selling Polish antennas on the market, but once his loneliness breaks his arrival to the provincial town of the classmate People. During her school years, Roman loved her, but after graduation, no one had heard of her for over twenty years. The novel invites her to visit the wine and remember the old times, because much has changed during this time. They have grown old, their dreams have never come true in real life, and the future holds nothing good. During the course of one evening, the two lonely get closer, and Roman does his best to be together at least now.

The film is a short-lived short story film Ukrainian New Wave: Runaway and Summer. Top. Love.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 0

Falling

105 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Marina Stepanska

The events of the film are developed in modern Kiev, where the main 27-year-old non-heroes are trying to make a difficult choice in terms of heroic time.

Anton, a musician-prodigy who has not coped with his expectations, returns home after two years of study in Switzerland and a six-year treatment for alcohol addiction at a psychoneurological clinic near Kiev. His grandfather, a man of strict principles, takes the boy to a village far from the lures of the big city.

One day, Anton meets Katya, who, like him, is trying to find her life in life. She is about to go to Berlin with her boyfriend Johann, a German photojournalist she met during events on the Maidan. However, her meeting with Anton brings a new impetus to her life and deeply affects both of them…

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Rating

Movie Critics: 7, Spectators: 8.5

Myth

63 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre DocumentaryBiographical

Category Full-length documentary

Director Leonіd KanterІvan Yasnіy

The life story of Vasily Slipak - an opera singer with a world name and unique voice and a participant in the war in the Donbass.

Basil was born in Lviv, but later in search of a musical realization, having a unique voice - counter-coach, moved to France. He lived there for 19 years and found everything we used to call "happiness": a name, a successful career on the world opera stages, loyal friends and love. He actively participated in the Dignity Revolution, leading demonstrations in France, and later joined the volunteer movement in helping Ukraine. It would seem that he was doing more than enough as a man of art. But Vasil decided to leave the stage and career in Europe and join the ranks of volunteers when his home country came to war. While performing the combat task, Vasyl Myth Slipak was killed by a sniper's bullet.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 6

Mimicry

7 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Animation

Category Short animation

Director Boris Bubnov

The story of a bird that wanted to eat a worm and a worm that didn't want it very much ...

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 7

Cyborgs: Heroes Never Die

112 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre DramaWar

Category Full-length

Director Axtem Seitablaev

The story unfolds over a two-week stretch at one battalion airport in 2014. For the first time, a volunteer group arrives at a hot spot that has been defended by our military for four months, and face the dreaded face of war. Not only professional military but also volunteer corps protect her. This collision - an absolute challenge for the whole world - was the beginning of the formation of a new self-identification of the citizens of Ukraine.

During and after the tragic historic moment, the silhouette of the New Country, which honors its statehood, emerged; during it people began to create the Myth of the New Heroes - fearless, ready to accomplish the incredible for the sake of loved ones, relatives and Ukraine.

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Rating

Movie Critics: 9, Spectators: 8.6