Films

Between the frames
#human_interest #archives
Сompleted
Between the frames (Поміж кадрами)
Between the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop.
#human_interest #archives
Сompleted
Deliberate Lies
#social_issues #archives #history
In Development
Deliberate Lies (Навмисна брехня)
"If you feed deliberate lies into a computer, the lies will multiply and you’ll get a real mess."
#social_issues #archives #history
In Development
Diary 1937
#anthropology #archives #history #social_issues
Сompleted
Diary 1937 (Щоденник 1937)
The film essay consists of personal photo archives and narration by the author, who explores the collective and personal memory of the Soviet experience.
#anthropology #archives #history #social_issues
Сompleted
EuroDonbas
#archives #history #culture
Сompleted
EuroDonbas (EvroDonbas)
Our documentary is not just a refutation of myths and fakes, it is a search for historical truth, a restoration of the European identity of the industrial Donbas.
#archives #history #culture
Сompleted
Fragile Memory
#archives #culture #family #cinema
Work in Progress
Fragile Memory (Крихка Пам'ять)
When the young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer, he realizes that it’s a chance to get closer to the memories of his grandpa, who is rapidly succumbing to dementia. The damaged pictures reveal the struggle between remembering and forgetting.
#archives #culture #family #cinema
Work in Progress
Fragments of Ice
#creative #archives #human_interest #history
Сompleted
Fragments of Ice (Фрагменти льоду)
My father, a (post-)Soviet figure skating star went on tours to the imaginary West and filmed his life in the transition period of the 80s and 90s. Rediscovering his amateur VHS archive, I explore his vision of paradise against the changing historical background.
#creative #archives #human_interest #history
Сompleted
Iron Butterflies
#creative #experimental #archives #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Iron Butterflies (Залізні метелики)
In the greatest security crisis in Europe since the Cold War, a butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the body of the pilot of an Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur flight proves a superpower’s unpunished war crime.
#creative #experimental #archives #current_affairs
Work in Progress
Izolyatsia
#history #Donetsk #human_rights #culture #archives
In Development
Izolyatsia
Izolyatsia: a factory, an art center, a prison. Address: Donetsk, Svitlyi Shliakh Street, 3. Where does this street lead?
#history #Donetsk #human_rights #culture #archives
In Development
Messiah, or a Town and a Half
#archives #history #culture
In Development
Messiah, or a Town and a Half (Месія, або півтора міста)
Today, Bruno Schultz’s short stories have been translated into more than forty languages. And his mythical mesmerizing prose inspires filmmakers, writers, stage directors. This film is about a small town in Galicia. And about a man who lived in that small town.
#archives #history #culture
In Development
Pearl of the Absurd
#politics #human_rights #history #archives
Work in Progress
Pearl of the Absurd (Перлина Абсурду)
Oleksandra’s attempts to save old Odesa from gentrification lead to a personal quest – a search for traces of her great-grandfather, executed by the Soviets in 1938.
#politics #human_rights #history #archives
Work in Progress
The Tree
#art #human_interest #experimental #archives
Сompleted
The Tree (Дерево)
The act of creation by a human being is subject to the power of the substance that governs the carver, independently determining the result. The subjectivity of nature is also manifested in the film through chemical damage: images are absorbed and disappear from the view.
#art #human_interest #experimental #archives
Сompleted