Meme Wars

59 minutes - Ukraine 2024

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Hristina Braslavsyka

У сучасному світі меми – не просто розвага. Вони можуть визначати нашу реальність. А українські меми повномасштабної війни – унікальне явище. Його вивчають навіть дослідники зі Стенфордського університету.

Автори фільму поспілкувалися з авторами найвідоміших мемів і з’ясували, як вони відважилися на жарти у найтемніші часи. Український дипломат розказав як за допомогою мемів виборював зброю для України. Засновник наймасовішого мем-ком’юніті у Твіттер привідкрив завісу того, як меми наносять удар не лише на інформаційному, а й реальному фронті. З провідними вченими України та світу автори переосмислили роль мемів в українському опорі в найдраматичнішій війні 21 століття.

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A Simple Soldier

96 minutes - United StatesUnited KingdomUkraine 2025

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Director Artem RighikovHuan Kamіlo Krus

After Russia's 2022 invasion, award-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and cinematographer Artem Ryzhykov became a soldier in the Ukrainian army. But he also remained a filmmaker, often carrying both a camera and a gun. Joining the Territorial Defense Forces and given the nickname ‘Canon’, Ryzhykov attempts to grapple with military life alongside his comrades, while striving to stay connected with Irina, his young wife. As his experience grows, his perspective shifts – he is forced to come to terms with the pain of losing fellow soldiers as well as confronting the profound ethical dilemma of documenting war.

An intelligent and searching documentary exploring honor, duty, and the impact of conflict, A Simple Soldier is also a story of love, friendship, and family.

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Island of love

Ukraine 1995

Genre DramaScreen adaptation

Director Oleh Bіyma

Ten films based on love-erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the XIX century to the present day. Movies explore Love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective section of the history of society, culture, art. Changes in the attitude towards the woman, mother, beloved are observed.

 

• Movie first. Island of love. According to Alexander Oles' plots
• The movie is the second. Sleep. According to the stories of Mark Vovchko
• The movie is the third. Nature. According to the stories of Olga Kobylyanska
• Movie Four. Sentence. According to the stories of Mark Cheremshiny
• The film is the fifth. Kitenka. According to the stories of Ivan Franko
• The sixth movie. The devil. According to the stories of Gnat Hotkevich
• Movie Seven. Duel. According to the stories of Michael Kotsyubynsky
• Movie eight. Engagement. According to the stories of Vladimir Vinnichenko
• The film is the ninth. Bride. According to the stories of Michael Mogilyansky
• The tenth movie. Fornication. According to the plots of Eugene Gutsal

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Confession

22 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Documentary

Category Short documentary

Director Halyna Lavrinets

About the complex fate of the artist in the modern world. Painter Volodymyr Kalnenko returns to Ukraine. Before living in St. Petersburg, he was a recognized artist, had a wide range of communication, money, workshop. But the everyday life changes everything. There is only one thing left - to draw while the Lord gives strength to it ...

The film is a part of an almanac of documentaries short Portraits.

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The Sorochinsk Fair

105 minutes - RussiaUkraine 2004

Genre MusicalMelodramaComedy

Director Semen Horov

Based on the story of Mykola Gogol's Sorochinsky Fair.

Wealthy peasant Solopiy Boot goes to the famous Sorochinsky fair to sell wheat. Along with him goes all his family: the feuding wife of Hebra and three daughters Parasca, Horpin and Motrya. The young man Gritsko, having met at the Paraska fair, falls in love with her. But Hivri's stepmother opposed their wedding. Grytsko meets at the fair with a gypsy, a fortune teller, who helps him persuade Paraski's parents to betray his daughter.

At the same time, comic events unfolding around the mysterious story of the red scroll are unfolding. Kumo's entire story of the Red Scroll is filmed and saturated with many eccentric scenes. In the finale of the story, the main characters find happiness, and it all ends with a fun wedding.

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Heterophony, or Why didn't you come earlier?

Ukraine 2019

Genre Comedy

Category Short

Director Mykhailo Ozerov

The wife is waiting at home for a very late husband at work. Meanwhile, friends came to visit her. They advise on how to behave in this situation.

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Rana

5 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre Science fiction

Category Short

Director Oleksandr Nykonovych

The near future. A revolution is taking place in one of the third world countries. People who were close as children are now fighting on different sides. Which is stronger: memories or political beliefs?

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