Denys Ivanov;

Maksym Serdiuk; 

Nadiia Korotushka;

Mariia Kravchenko;

Olena Hapieieva

Denis Ivanov is the founder of Odesa International Film Festival, Children Kinofest, and Kyiv Critics Week; head of Arthouse Traffic film company; distributor and producer. As a producer, he made ten feature films and over forty shorts. His recent film, REAL, directed by Oleh Sentsov, was presented in the official Selection of the Karlovy Vary IFF, IDFA, and the Stockholm Film Festival.

Arthouse Traffic is a Ukrainian film company specialising in creating and distributing arthouse cinema. Founded in 2003, it has released over 400 films, including Oscar winners like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, as well as Palme d’Or winners from the Cannes Film Festival: Titane by Julia Ducorneau, The Square by Ruben Östlund, The Life of Adele by Abdelatif Keshish, and Ukrainian films such as Kateryna Hornostai’s Stop-Zemlia, Antonio Lukich’s My Thoughts Are Silent, and Nariman Aliiev’s Homeward. In Ukraine, the distribution company Arthouse Traffic represents films from such international sales companies as Studiocanal, Pathe Films, MK2 Films, The Match Factory, HanWay Films, Beta Cinema, Protagonist Pictures, PlayTime, Les Films du Losange, and Latido Films.

Arthouse Traffic is a co-founder and general manager of the Odesa International Film Festival (2010–2014, 2021). Since 2014, it has organised the annual International Children’s and Youth Film Festival “Children Kinofest,” and in 2017, it founded the annual Kyiv Critics’ Week Film Festival.

20 Days in Mariupol: As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

The film, which received an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, has also won numerous awards around the world. It was honored at over twenty international festivals, including the Best Documentary BAFTA at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Program at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematographer: Mstyslav Chernov. 

Field Producer: Vasylisa Stepanenko.
Still Photographer: Yevhen Maloletka.
Producer, Editor: Michelle Mizner.
Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath.
Composer: Derl McCrudden.

Box office: over 9 million UAH.

Number of viewers in Ukrainian theatres: 65,825

Production company: PBS Frontline.

Ukrainian distributor: Arthouse Traffic.

Maksym Serdiuk is a film producer and co-founder of KNIFE! Films studio. 

After graduating from the Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, he founded the music media outlet SLUKH [hearing from Ukr.] in 2018. Following the success of the documentary series SPALAKH [flash from Ukr.] (2021), he co-founded KNIFE! Films with Artem Hryhorian. 

In 2024, he focused entirely on film production, releasing Yaremchuk: Matchless World of Beauty, which became the highest-grossing documentary in Ukrainian box office history. 

Maksym’s projects are distinguished by their high quality and wide audience resonance. In 2021, Forbes recognised him in its “30 Under 30” list for his contributions to culture and media.

KNIFE! Films is an independent Ukrainian production studio focusing on original films and series. It was among the first in Ukraine to develop popular documentary cinema. 

Yaremchuk: Matchless World of Beauty (2024) became the highest-grossing documentary in Ukraine, with a box office of over 15 million UAH. 

The studio’s projects EPISODES: Ukraine at the World Cup and Yaremchuk: Matchless World of Beauty were released on Netflix in 2024. 

Nadiia Korotushka has been a producer and head of theatrical distribution at FILM.UA Distribution (part of FILM.UA Group) since 2014. From 2008 to 2014, she worked at 1+1 Media, progressing from assistant to program acquisition specialist.

She co-produced Ukraine’s highest-grossing film franchise, Crazy Wedding (2018–2021), the comedy The Big Picnic (2022), and the Polish-Ukrainian co-production Two Sisters (2024).

Since 2019, she has led the theatrical distribution department at FILM.UA Group. Over the past six years, the group has released more than fifty Ukrainian and European films in nationwide distribution, with a combined box office of over 1.5 billion UAH. These include box office hits such as Mavka: The Forest Song, Dovbush, The Konotop Witch, and December 31st Express.

She is recognised by Forbes as one of Ukraine’s top ten highest-grossing producers and a member of the European Film Academy.

Yaremchuk: Matchless World of Beauty is a documentary biographical drama about Nazarii Yaremchuk, Ukraine’s first pop star, who maintained his love for the beauty of the world and his homeland despite Soviet censorship and restrictions. The film recounts his victory at the “Song-71” contest, KGB persecution, tours across various continents, and performances in Afghanistan and Chornobyl. Through personal diaries, exclusive chronicles, and memories of loved ones, it portrays his remarkable journey and the key historical events he witnessed.

Director: Artem Hryhorian.
Producers: Mariia Yaremchuk, Maksym Serdiuk.
Operator: Iliia Mikhailus.
Composer: Mykhailo Klymenko.
Editing: Artem Hryorian.
Sound engineer: Dmytro Oleksiuk.

Number of viewers in Ukrainian theatres: 99,608.
Box office in Ukraine: 15,286,499 UAH

Production company: KNIFE! Films.

Ukrainian distributor: FILM.UA Distribution.

Mariia Kravchenko is a communications expert leading communications for the film collective Babylon’13. She creates strategies and creative ideas and manages systematic communication, supporting and advising businesses and social, cultural, and media projects. With over nine years of experience, she has worked as the head of the press service for the Publishers’ Forum NGO, Lviv Media Forum, UHC, and managed communications for the open podcast studio IZONE Media. She was also the chief operating officer of the Liroom media outlet, which focused on new Ukrainian culture.

Summertime in Ukraine tells the story of the war in Ukraine through the eyes of foreign volunteers. The main characters are soldiers from the International Legion of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), who carry out combat missions on the hottest fronts.

Volodymyr Tykhyi is the principal director and the author of the idea. The directors are Anastasiia Tykha and Hanna Tykha, who were responsible for filming the American part.

The cinematographers are Dmytro Zahlynskyi, Serhii Stetsenko, Yurii Hruzinov, Anastasiia Tykha, Dmytro Mohylynets, Oleksii Petrov, and Halyna Lavrinets.
Music and sound design: sound supervisor Mykhailo Zakutskyi and recording sound engineer Oleksii Diachenko.
Composer: Andrii Barmalii.
Editing director: Michel Lades.
Producers: Volodymyr Tykhyi and Andrii Kotliar. Executive producer: Bohdanna Semen.

Number of viewers in Ukrainian theatres: 19,361.
Box office in Ukraine: 3,313,629 UAH.

The film was created by the film collective Babylon'13. 

Ukrainian distributor: B&H Film Distribution Company.

Visual: Madcats agency.

Olena Hapieieva is the head of theatrical distribution at Green Light Films (GLF). She has worked in film distribution since 2007 at companies like Synergy, Kinomania, and VLG. Since 2024, she has collaborated with Green Light Films. Olena has released 375 films of various genres and countries of origin. 

Green Light Films is an independent Ukrainian film distribution company aiming to become a leader in its field and promote positive changes in the local market. The company focuses on developing direct relationships to acquire and distribute rights to commercially oriented, prestigious titles with strong theatrical potential for Ukrainian audiences. 

It places particular emphasis on collaborating with Ukrainian talents and supporting Ukrainian cinema.

Us, Our Pets, and the War is the first feature-length documentary by travel blogger Anton Ptushkin. The film explores life, humanity, and the incredibly close bond between people and animals, which the war in Ukraine has only highlighted. The main characters include cats, dogs, bears, lions, lemurs, a Yemeni chameleon named Ihoriok, and the people who risk their lives to save them. The movie's central idea is: “Saving animals to stay human”.

Director: Anton Ptushkin.
Producers: Zoia Soshenko, Anton Ptushkin, Elizabeth Troyan.

Number of Ukrainian viewers in Ukrainian theatres: 27,302.
Box office in Ukraine: 4,591,681 UAH.

Production company: Vse Sam (Ukraine), Yap Films (Canada).

Ukrainian distributor: Green Light Films

Alex Malyschenko is a film journalist, Mykolaichuk OPEN programme director, and distribution communications specialist. His writings appear in publications like LB.ua, Moviegram, DTF Magazine, and Vogue Ukraine. He focuses on Ukrainian and global cinema.