Visible Enemy

42 minutes - Ukraine 2023

Genre Documentary

Director Yevhenіya Podobna

On February 24, 2022, Russian troops entered the Chornobyl exclusion zone. They seized the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, held the plant's employees captive, looted, and needed the zone itself as a transit area for further advancement to Kyiv.

The documentary project The Visible Enemy tells what the occupation of the exclusion zone by the Russian army was really like. The project's creative team tried to establish the chronology of the events of February 24 and collected the memories of direct witnesses to the events: exclusion zone employees, self-settlers, border guards, and a rescue team that spent the entire period of occupation in Chornobyl.

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Torn up by the Roots

43 minutes - Ukraine 2012

Genre Documentary

Director Olena Broda

A film about the forced resettlement of Lemkos from Poland to the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-1946.

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Tulchyn Joker – Dmytro Masibroda

14 minutes - Ukraine 2024

Genre Film portrait

Category Short documentary

Director Anna Kozoriz

Anna Kozoriz, a second-year student majoring in 021 ‘Audiovisual Arts and Production’ of the educational and professional program ‘Mastery of Announcer and TV Host’ at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, interviews with Tulchyn film director and screenwriter Dmytro Masibroda, who has won awards at such international film competitions as New York's Oniros Film, Chile's South Film and Arts Academy, the Indo-French International and Cannes World Film Festivals, as well as many other similar events. Their dialogue begins on the terrace of one of the most outstanding monuments of classicism in Ukraine – the Potocki family palace – and ends in the premises of the “Podillia People's Film Studio 1956”, where, together with his team consisting of cinematographer Serhii Kachmar and sound engineer Dmytro Machok, the renowned director, whom the locals jokingly call the “Tulchyn Joker”, edits his films.

In an interview, Dmytro recalls his childhood, watching Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction as his ‘second birthday,’ his studies at the Tulchyn Professional College of Culture (formerly known as the Tulchyn School of Culture), the influence of his teacher Stanislav Yulianovych Hrinzitskyi on his own cinematic style, and many other interesting facts from his biography.

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Two Sisters

Ukraine 2024

Genre Melodrama

Director Maksim Meheda

A story of love, betrayal and life’s trials and tribulations.

Vira and Oleksandra had been inseparable all their lives, but a single tragic event turned them into rivals. Love and pain, loyalty and revenge—each of them chooses her own path, not knowing where it will lead. Difficult trials await them, trials that will change their lives forever.

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Road to the void

600 minutes - RussiaUkraine 2011

Genre Melodrama

Director Hanna Hresy

The daily life of Marina Burtseva from the provincial town of Rybatsky is not very different from the lives of thousands of the same ordinary girls living in the hinterland of a large Soviet country. Her father breaks down under the blows of fate – first the death of his wife, then the loss of work – and slowly sings from the futility and meaninglessness of his existence. And when there is an opportunity to earn on his own daughter, without thinking, he sells Marina to earn money in the city. But having a strong character, the girl does not give up.

Marina's life is a series of difficult tests. Being a sold own father, deceived by a loved one, betrayed by friends, having lost faith in others, will she be able to find reasons to continue living, to fight for her future, to forgive and to love again? How many trials can one person suffer and what is the price of happiness? For the heroine of the series, reflections on this subject are not rhetorical searches for the meaning of life, these are questions that she has to answer every minute to survive.

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The Golden Goose

72 minutes - Ukraine 1993

Genre Music

Category Full-length

Director Volodimir Krayniev

Based on the play of the same name by Vladimir Orlov.

In the forest, the sly fox Anisia, together with her badger nephews, runs a tavern, where her old friend, the songwriter Wolf Vova, rarely acts. From the newspaper, she learns that the Ryaba hen has laid a golden egg and offers the gray predator to steal it with the bird from Santa and Baba. The fox plans to have a chicken hatched from the precious product that will carry golden eggs every day. As Vova embarks on the path of correction, Anisia convinces him that this is absolutely fair income. At night, the wolf enters the chicken coop, but it is detected by Santa, and the escaping robber manages to retrieve only the golden egg. Upon learning that Vova lost the chicken, the fox orders him to hatch himself. He agrees, but on the condition that half the gold will go to him. Warming an egg in the rain and in the cold, the predator cares for him ...

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The Returning

14 minutes - Ukraine 2015

Genre Drama

Category Short

Director Ihor Lymar

Jamal is an emigrant from Syria. After learning about the war in his homeland, he decides to return home with his friends. But getting back is not an easy task.

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