Films

All F*cked Up
#war #urban #social_issues #nature #health #activism
Work in Progress
All F*cked Up (Все Йде Шкереберть)
In wartime Kyiv, a Ukrainian director Ganna documents the construction of a foreign architect’s ‘healing garden’. The story grows as she recognizes her own need for healing. Therapy sessions and daily life in Kyiv reveal her buried trauma and the emotional cost of surviving war without visible scars.
#war #urban #social_issues #nature #health #activism
Work in Progress
An Island Between Wars
#current_affairs #war #community #identity #social_issues #history
Work in Progress
An Island Between Wars (Острів між війнами)
The century-old history of Ukraine through the fates of the Chernobyl zone people. Old twins Nastya and Frosya, Volodymyr  father of two soldiers, and downshifter Ihor  each of them understands love for their native land in their own way.
#current_affairs #war #community #identity #social_issues #history
Work in Progress
Black Earth
#family #social_issues #current_affairs #identity #war
Work in Progress
Black Earth (Чернозем)
Three Ukrainians face the war from radically different paths: Vitaly, 19yo, becomes adrone pilot in a volunteer unit in the East, as Fyodor, born into a Russian family, fleeswestward, torn by exile and identity, and Anya struggles to raise her young son alone after her husband’s execution.
#family #social_issues #current_affairs #identity #war
Work in Progress
From Radvanka
#human_rights #social_issues #women #experimental #creative
Work in Progress
From Radvanka (З Радванки)
With a camera in hand, Zhanna captures life in Radvanka, a Roma neighborhood in Uzhhorod, as war keeps her sons away and leaves her home - and her sense of belonging - suspended in uncertainty.
#human_rights #social_issues #women #experimental #creative
Work in Progress
In Anticipation
#war #social_issues #separation #observation #drama #current_affairs
Сompleted
In Anticipation (В очікуванні)
Prisoner of war exchange. Hundreds of relatives are in the hospital yard — there are more of them than liberated Ukrainian soldiers. Who will meet their loved ones today, and who will wait further? The first minutes of the meetings culminate in a climax, where people and spectators merge in common anticipation.
#war #social_issues #separation #observation #drama #current_affairs
Сompleted
Missing in Action
#drama #social_issues #women #war
Work in Progress
Missing in Action (Особа зникла безвісти)
While searching for her missing brother, 50-year-old Natalia is forced to find a new purpose in life to overcome her trauma.
#drama #social_issues #women #war
Work in Progress
The Amateur
#social_issues #docufiction #history #identity #archives #music
Work in Progress
The Amateur (Аматор)
In 1980s Soviet Ukraine, a merchant marine becomes an accidental rebel after discovering underground cinema. His camera captures a defiant nation on the brink of change and a music scene that helped bring down the USSR.
#social_issues #docufiction #history #identity #archives #music
Work in Progress
The Ferry Flows
#death #social_issues #music #experimental
Сompleted
The Ferry Flows (Паром Пливе)
A grey-haired music teacher from a small Ukrainian island turns into a military conductor at soldier funerals while trying to keep afloat his children ensemble.
#death #social_issues #music #experimental
Сompleted
The Unconquered: Voices of Veterans and their Partners
#war #women #relationship #marriage #social_issues
Сompleted
The Unconquered: Voices of Veterans and their Partners (Нескорені: Голоси ветеранів та їхніх партнерок)
Over 20 Ukrainian veterans and their partners first tell their stories separately, then meet in one room for the first time — to hear each other.
#war #women #relationship #marriage #social_issues
Сompleted