Slovo House

81 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Taras Tomenko

One of the most dramatic pages in the history of Ukraine is the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, specially assembled under one roof of the Slovo writers' house in Kharkiv. The story of how paradise turns to hell, how the system breaks the artist.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 8

The Strayed

97 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Comedy

Category Full-length

Director Arkadіy Nepytaliuk

According to Roman Gorbik's play "Center".

A loser in amorous relationships, a fan of classical music and a little polyglot Jura decides that something needs to be changed in his life. Hoping to continue acquaintance with the charming Svetlana in short shorts, "taxi driver by vocation" Yura receives a bonus for her mother and rushes to the Wanderers, where she does not "catch" mobile communication, live in Ukrainian, speak nationally and do not act thinking. The road is said to change people. Only one day that turns the lives of all heroes upside down…

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 7.333

DZIDZIO Contrabass

85 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Comedy

Category Full-length

Director Oleg Borshchevsky

Life on the border can be called easy only with a stretch. This is not by hearsay know DZIDZIO, Yulik and Lamour. They all have dreams, the achievement of which depends on the amount of money in your pocket. But in the border areas to get legally the right amount is not always easy, but the main characters do not intend to give up. Their path to enrichment is the transportation of smuggled goods to neighboring States. 

The scheme works up to a certain time, because the border service is also not sitting still. More posts have been set up at the borders recently, with staff looking for contraband with particular zeal. The guys need to come up with something new, and such an idea is born soon. 

Trinity tries on the clothes of Catholic priests, Luggage and documents are not very interesting to the border guards. The idea is a success, but the appearance on the horizon of stunning beauty Elena makes adjustments to the plans of the trio of idiots.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 6.5

Black Level

90 minutes - Ukraine 2016

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Valentin Vasyanovich

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 8

Escape from Stalin's Death Camp

110 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre DramaHistoricalAction movieScreen adaptation

Category Full-length

Director Zaza Buadze

Based on Andrei Kokotyukha's novel Red.

In 1947, two Ukrainians enter the Gulag. The main character is UPA soldier Danilo Krasnyi. Another Ukrainian is Viktor Gurov, a Soviet pilot from Chernihiv, whose plane was shot down over enemy positions and is considered a prisoner of captivity. Gurov considers Stalin a hero and believes that the military court was wrong. Both heroes must go through hell and inhumane conditions of hard labor, the pursuit of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair.

Daniel finds the strength to resist the repression of the camp commander and makes a desperate attempt to break free by raising his first uprising in the camp.

The film is based on real events.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 7.5

Causal

22 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Drama

Category Short animation

Director Andrіy Scherbak

The adaptation of Taras Shevchenko's poem "Causal".

War divides lovers; the young bride, unable to stand apart, loses her mind and dies. The young man returns alive and unharmed, but when he sees the death of his beloved, he breaks down to death. Nevertheless, they remain together forever.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 9

Blood Sausage

23 minutes - Ukraine 2016

Genre Tragicomedy

Category Short

Director Arkadіy Nepytaliuk

Andrew's parents slaughtered a pig to make a traditional Ukrainian dish – blood type – for Masha's future daughter-in-law. They want to meet her as their own, treat her the best – a dish of pig blood. But Masha is Jewish. And no one except Andrew knows about it.

The film is a part of the short film short film Ukrainian New Wave 20/16+

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 0

A Gentle Creature

143 minutes - RussiaGermanyNetherlandsFranceLatviaUkraineLithuania 2017

Genre Drama

Category Full-length

Director Serhіy Loznicya

Based on the story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky Lagidna (Rus. Krotkaya).

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day, she receives a parcel she had previously sent to her prisoner husband. It says "return to sender". Shocked and confused, the woman sees no choice but to go to jail in a remote area of ​​the country for explanations.

Thus begins the story of the fight against this impenetrable fortress, a prison where the forces of social evil are always on guard. With the fear of violence and humiliation, in the face of all opposition, our heroine embarks on a journey in the blind pursuit of justice.

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Movie Critics: 0, Spectators: 0