Women Occupied

90 minutes - GermanyUkraineBosnia and Herzegovina

Genre Documentary

Category Full-length documentary

Women Occupied is a 90-minute-long creative documentary film that provides an intimate, ruminative and thoughtful reflection on psychological trauma inflicted on women by last European wars. The film consists of three intertwined novels which together tell the stories of women survivors in Ukraine, Bosnia, and Germany who were subjected to mass rape during war during the previous century in Europe. As their stories unfold, we follow the women’s path from suffering the trauma to healing from it and toward regaining their power and dignity in search of justice.

Three stories will be told in parallel, but the main focus will be on a Ukrainian woman. The observation of her daily life will help us to get to know her step by step. We will observe her therapy sessions and see how she copes with the challenges that she faces in the aftermath of trauma and fleeing her home in the midst of a war. The other characters are women from Bosnia and Germany. They provide us with a global perspective which shows how their experiences, decisions, or actions were taken or not taken. And the way in which they affected their lives, the lives of their family and society. As well as what lessons they can share through their life story. This exploration will give the time and distance and insight that the main protagonist cannot give as she remains too close to her trauma. We will also observe their relationship with their families.

The film will also attempt to answer the question of how conflict-related sexual violence debases the whole society. We intend the film will help build women's solidarity against rape as a weapon of war and to offer a model for how a person can heal from trauma, and become stronger from the crimes committed against them.

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Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

16 minutes - NetherlandsUkraine 2025

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director V'yacheslav Turyanicya

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And Blood Will Be Spilled

11 minutes - Ukraine 2018

Genre DramaMysticismThriller

Category Short

Director Dmytro Masibroda

Conscience. Remorse. Catharsis.

Mystical and surreal events unfold in a hotel room, linking the mysterious murder of a young man and the stay of a girl who is tormented by her conscience for unknown actions she committed earlier in her life. The bedding, wardrobes with bedside tables, walls, and even the light glow red, and classical music echoes in her ears. The young girl takes pills for insomnia and has flashbacks that only she understands, which partially reveal what really happened within the walls of this room…

White and dark roses, a kitchen knife with a blue handle, an innocent primary school girl in a wardrobe — everything is connected, and only through remorse caused by conscience is it possible to achieve moral purification and spiritual elevation — a phenomenon known by the ancient Greek name ‘catharsis’.

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White elephants

15 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Yana Antonecy

Based on the story of Ernest Hemingway's White Elephants.

The action takes place in a train station cafe, at God's forgotten ancient station, in the midst of picturesque Ukrainian Carpathians. We are witnessing the most complicated conversation between a man and a woman trying to justify one another's decisions.

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Child for November

94 minutes - Ukraine 1992

Genre Comedy

Category Full-length

Director Oleksandr Pavlovsykiy

According to the story of Leonid Zhuhovitsky "Child for November".

Young woman living in a hostel. In November, apartments will be given to those who are most in need. To get an apartment a woman needs to have a baby by November. The girlfriend tries to help her accomplish this task, but all the men on whom an important mission is entrusted do not live up to their expectations. All but one are the most prosaic and at the same time the most reliable.

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The Gold Rush

97 minutes - Ukraine 2003

Genre Detective

Category Full-length

Director Mykhailo Bielikov

The plot of the painting unfolds in two time planes – in our time and in the 1930s. It is known that Stalin was very fond of cinema. Once upon a time, after watching Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush, he decided that the Soviet country should begin gold mining, of course, by political forces. The Stalin movie mechanic was appointed chief of the gold mines at Kolyma, who began his work so fervently that he began to make bullets out of gold and received the Order of Lenin.

It's been over 70 years. Sometime during a walk in the park, a young journalist, Nikolai Vorotnitsky, came upon a corpse of a well-known businessman and politician. Next to the body lay the Order of Lenin, and the murder was committed by a golden ball. An independent investigation leads the journalist to a real killer – but he decides not to publish his name. Not even a huge monetary reward can convince the disclosure of the secret – it is not about money, but ethics.

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Artist

Ukraine 2019

Genre Melodrama

Director Anatolіy Mateshko

The main character of the picture – actor Maxim Nesterenko, who plays cops in the series. He is forever in the second role, takes on any project to make some money, and knows that he is no longer jumping over his head. With Max's personal life, too, not very. He is divorced from his wife Marina, and now his girlfriend – the new star Snizhana – has betrayed him with his best friend. To top it all off, Max lost a lot of money in the cards and was still guilty. He promises to forgive Maxim the debt, if he fulfills the order – will take some case to the destination.

Maxim agrees, but on the way gets into an accident. He is rescued by a police officer Lemeshev passing by, but the law enforcement officer himself dies, exploding with Maxim's car. The circumstances are such that Maxim is taken for Lemeshev and Lemeshev – for Maxim, because they are similar in appearance. Besides, Lemeshev's opera just went to a new place of work, and nobody knows him there. Hiding from debt, Maxim temporarily becomes a cop.

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Playground

20 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Ivan Orlenko

Thirteen-year-old students are out walking the school, chasing a ball at an abandoned sports ground. Their company is a tiny model of a society where there are leaders and dudes. Once they get in trouble ...

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