Through its two parallel plotlines, the film follows the exploits of a volunteer evacuation team in the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, led by young, precociously stoic Anton, as well as the wartime daily lives and unlikely friendship of two elderly women – pragmatic Zinaida and dreamy, starry-eyed Taisia – who decided to stay at their homes in the now de-occupied Chernihiv region. While Anton faces the most visceral horrors of war on a daily basis during his team’s urgent, desperate attempts to rescue the most vulnerable, who are often reluctant or unwilling to leave, Zinaida and Taisia seek to pursue any forms of resistance within their power – from praying and writing poetry to hiding historic plaque and reporting intelligence to the Ukrainian military… 

 A piece of cinéma verité, the film explores the complex dynamics of rescuing and preserving in the most trying of times – not only lives and physical land but faith, hope, memory, culture, and one’s own humanity. As the plotlines ultimately interweave into a double helix, the line between the extraordinary self-sacrifices and at first glance futile, naïve, inconsiderable acts of resistance is blurred, inviting us to notice the indivisibly unified effort by the visible and invisible heroes in the making.

A film from the film series Chosen by Time.

The film tells the story of the life and work of producer and film director Oleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877-1945), one of the founders of Ukrainian cinema.
The life of O. Khanzhonkov was full of dramatic events. Khanzhonkov's life was full of dramatic events: the creation of the first large film enterprise, the production of the first full-length national film The Defence of Sevastopol (1911), the beginning of the grandiose construction of a film factory in Yalta, and then the destruction of all his achievements and dreams by the Soviet authorities and the end of his life spent in poverty and complete oblivion.

According to a play by Anna Jablonska.

A journalist from Kiev arrives in a provincial town. She is staying at the hotel, but cannot leave the room. He then notices the guest in the room…

The diploma work of the director.

Based on the stories of Sergei Dovlatov.

The story of a friendship between two young guys: one serving in the army, the other a prisoner. About responsibility for their actions, for their human dignity.