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Edge of the River 2023
A series of events brings the Bulgarian Fori to the Danube Delta. In the Ukrainian city of Vylkove, due to random tragic circumstances, Fori finds himself in custody. But in this town the hero meets true love, and the beauty and spiritual atmosphere of "Ukrainian Venice" gives him the feeling that this is the place he was looking for all his life.

Why I'm Alive 2021 star_border 8
Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.

Unreal COPout 2021 star_border 4.4
Presidential order forces children of the officials who are working and studying abroad to return, so chief of police Petro Burundiak has his son Vasyl back in Ukraine and working as a police freshman.

Khadjibey Fortress 2020 star_border 8
Son Kale Hacibey is a historical action film that tells the story of a battle between the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire on the one hand, and the Russian Empire on the other hand. The forces are fighting to gain control of the Hacibey Castle, an impenetrable fortress located on the Black Sea coast in the heart of Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire. And just when the Russians thought they were winning the battle against Ukrainians and Turks, a mysterious hero - a brave Ukrainian cossack warrior Andriy - arrives in Istambul to deliver a secret message from from Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire's leadership. A message that can forever change the course of this battle.

Taras. Return 2020 star_border 6.3
Few weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.

Paper Plane 2019 star_border 6
The Paper Plane is a poignant drama that takes place when a bandit called Roman comes to a small town, wanting to negotiate with local thugs and turn the city into a drug trafficking base. But the town is ruled by the local authority Lihach. He is not going to let strangers here. In the center of the bandit confrontation is a simple guy Pasha, who decided to leave the dying city with his bride. Pasha expects that his small savings will be enough for them at first in the capital. But his drunkard spends all the money. To fulfill his promise and not lose his bride, the guy agrees to Roman's proposal .... Selflessness and betrayal, feat and cowardice - all this shines extremely bright in extreme conditions.

Away from the shore 2019
A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to put a play that his thoughts are obsessed with. This play talks about people who are being constantly watched and are living in constant fear of punishment. Gradually, the nightmares of the play begin to move into the life of the troupe...

The Traitor 2018 star_border 7.5
1971, Odessa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine’s 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party’s view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, which consequently realizes she must protect the director’s vision and the safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet occupation.

Chervonyi 2017 star_border 7.5
Year 1947. Commander of UPA Danylo Chervonyi gets into the terrible slaughter of Stalin's camps, where he must go through hell and inhumane prison conditions, prosecution of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair. Danylo finds the strength to resist repression of the camp commander and makes a desperate attempt to break free, raising the first rebel in the camp.

Babylon: Epidemic of Freedom 2016
The life of a poet in a society of propaganda, dictatorship and war, where freedom of speech is the greatest luxury for which there is a price to pay. Will one person be able to withstand the whole system and change their time?

Little Life 2008
The film tells about the fate of a little boy Pylypko. In the hungry winter of 1932-1933, his mother died. The boy is taken away by his uncle, but Pylypko runs away from his house in search of his mother. He got lost in the woods and almost froze. The child is saved from death by two monks and taken to a monastery. There he learned to paint icons and proved to be a very capable artist. Later a Frenchman came to the monastery. His young daughter is very ill, and the boy sincerely wishes her recovery. Learning that this requires praying to St. Panteleimon, Philip decides to draw his icon and help the girl.

Dummy 2007 star_border 4
A strange man intervenes between ex-spouses on a matter directly related to a large sum of money one of them had secured after selling a piece of property.

The Effect of Presence 2004

On the field of blood. Aceldama 2001
Judas Iscariot treats stone field - a field of blood, bought for 30 pieces of silver - the price of betrayal of Jesus. A pilgrim who travels to Jerusalem, stops to ask water and finds and recognizes Judas. Judas justifies his crime with his moral. Every person is entitled to their own choice and has a right of remorse. The second part goes into effect gilded mansions of representative of Rome.

Second Class Citizens 2001 star_border 3
The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through airy but uneven absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane.

Letter to America 1999 star_border 2.8
A couple of post-Soviet slackers want to record a video message for their friends who have moved to the United States. Muratova’s view of different types of freedom and pleasure.

Three Stories 1997 star_border 6.3
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

Return of the "Battleship" 1996 star_border 3.7

Without a Collar 1995
A story about love and friendship between two kids - owners of Great Danes.

A Boulevard Romance 1995 star_border 5.5
The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...

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