Graduation '97

19 minutes - Ukraine 2017

Genre Dramedia

Category Short

Director Pavlo Ostrikov

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: 7

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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Movie Critics: 7, Spectators: 8.5

Myth

63 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre DocumentaryBiographical

Category Full-length documentary

Director Leonid 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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Movie Critics: 9, Spectators: 8.6

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