Ukraine, Goodbye!

A story about a sad incident that have made lighter one’s unbearable being.

Uncle Tolya’s wife hung herself, and his children went abroad. He lives on his own and feels very lonely. In order to get rid of these feelings Uncle Tolya starts talking to God. He prays every day, and asks God to restore justice by making suffer not only him but the rest of the people as well. If everybody would die, especially sinners in violent torture, Uncle Tolya would gain peace. While Lord is not answering the prayers of his servant, Uncle Tolya decides to play God’s role.

A philosophical parable about the life of suburbs.

Kolia spends his time in the striptease-bar and suddenly he recognizes among the dancers his school friend.

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

An absurd story reflecting contemporary social problems in Ukraine, told in the century-old language of cinema, linking modernity and traditional Soviet socialist realism. Classical imagery imitates an old ideology contradicting the author’s worldview revealing the roots of reality’s distortion in this post-Soviet ambience showing that cultural, political and economic problems are knotted in military conflict.

1941. Ukraine. Second World War. Two enemies meet in German captivity: one from the Red Army, and the second from UPA. Both of them think their way is right.

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.

Sergey and Sveta live in Chernobyl. He is a truck driver at a radioactive waste plant while she works at a radioactive decontamination station. Their work and life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm.

The old forester had planned a day off in advance to enjoy a relaxing warm bath and listening to the radio ... His daughter unexpectedly visited him to introduce her fiancé. It was as if an old acquaintance, a forester, had come out of nowhere, with vodka and snacks ... And there were two more ...

10 minutes in the life of several deaf-and-dumb boarding school inmates are reconstructed in real time.

When drug courier Petia and his pregnant girlfriend got into a militia raid, he did not suspect that his conflict with the law was not the least serious problem of his life.

Based on John Vaillant’s book, telling the true story set in Siberia of a town being picked off by a nearby tiger as they encroach on his land.

The story of a group of people living in a permanent nuclear winter in the ruins of the old civilisation destroyed by an atomic war.

Set in snowy far east Russia in the late 90s, a group of men — referred to as the Tiger Team — work to protect endangered tigers from poachers and logging operations. The Team’s leader's sense of duty is tested when he’s charged with hunting down and exterminating a tiger that killed a poacher in self-defense.

A man finds himself hypnotized by a mysterious MMS.

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

Driving in their yellow Lada flying its own little Ukrainian flag, they travel from incident to incident – calming an angry neighbor, investigating the discovery of a body, struggling to unfold a stroller and attempting to re-integrate Vova, the freeloader who eats other people’s dogs but actually longs for a normal existence – just like everyone else here. The seasons pass until political developments reach the village by way of the TV screen, sowing separatist discord.

A series of odd coincidences has left Lukas, an interpreter for an OSCE military checkpoint inspection tour, stranded near a small southern Ukrainian steppe town. With nowhere to turn, this city boy finds shelter at the home of a colorful local named Vova. With Vova as his guide, Lukas is confronted by a universe beyond his imagination, one in which life seems utterly detached from any identifiable structure. Fascinated by his host and his host's daughter Marushka, with whom he is rapidly falling in love, Lukas’s contempt for provincial life slowly melts away and sets him on a quest for a happiness he had never known could exist.

Before becoming an animator Anatolii Surma studied to be a tractor driver, and even worked in a regional road service office. His passion for animation began with The Simpsons and South Park. And while American TV series are generally created by huge studios, the distinctly recognizable characters that make up this whole absurdist world come from the hand of an amateur artist from a village in Khmelnytskyi oblast (province). Anatolii Surma never writes scripts for his cartoons. The ones he does write end up in the oven. This is a documentary about the author of the visual identity of Docudays UA Festival 2021 that reveals the secrets behind his creative process, the source of ideas and the inspiration for Anatolii Surma.

This film is a fresco pictured on a background of an abandoned port-town. A taxi-driver falls in love with a young lady, passenger in his car. He makes a decision to marry her and entices her to his house. The lady is scared, she tries to escape, but the taxi-driver locks her up in the bathroom and starts getting ready to the wedding... The film is about a real person from a Ukrainian province who cannot express his own feelings in a common way. He was brought up seeing psychological violence, man's domination over a woman. And even in the situation when he sincerely wants to keep the lady from danger and propose his love and faithfulness, he cannot use any other methods but violence. The script is based on real facts. The characters in the film are real residents of the town Kherson located in the South of Ukraine who shared stories from their lives and brought them to the screen. The film recieved the Main prize at Film festival "Kinoshok" from the Jury of Russian Producers.

The film explores the feelings of ordinary people involved in a global conflict – a war. The authors show a simple story of the detention of Ukrainian soldier Mykola by a German commandant from the point of view of Mykola’s grandson, who was born 46 years after the war.

A documentary film about a children’s jazz band from Kherson, a Ukrainian province. From the authors of an awards winning documentary film Ukrainian Sheriffs.

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

Friday is the best time to have fun.

The fourth film "Mezhyhirya. Batina's Hut". While working on a film about Viktor Yanukovych's residence, director Yulia Shashkova visited Mezhyhirya several times. the authors of the film draw parallels between life in luxurious Mezhyhirya and simple Yenakiyevo, where Viktor Yanukovych's parents ' house is in ruins.

"The Winter That Changed" is a documentary about the events that took place on Euromaidan during the Revolution of Dignity.

This is the brief story about defencelessness of the death and audacity of life.

15-year-old Ania secretly in love with her handsome neighbor. Suddenly the girl finds out that a boy leaves the country, and he has no one to take care of his dog…

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

Viktor, an architect student from Kyiv, loves Barcelona and the Gaudí work. He wants to get a scholarship in Barcelona, so he’s waiting for a reply from Spanish university. While in Barcelona they decide whether to grant a scholarship to Ukrainian student, he’s going down fast… Will the letter reach him too late?

A nutty girl breaks up with her boyfriend. Will she hear the Word of God?

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

This the story about a true friendship, which doesn't ask for anything.

He wakes up. He is naked. He is in the train. Train is in the dead way.

Vitia is a little person. In Ukraine people like him are neither socially secure, nor have even basic facilities available in the subway, building halls, elevators etc. “They don’t like people like us here,” is the reason why Vitia decides to emigrate. He also doesn’t know the answer to the question: “Do they like such people over there?”.

A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society.

In a provincial Ukrainian town everyone knows each other by name and live as one big family. Granny Zina bakes pies for local youngsters… she sells them drugs as well. Granny Zina is protected local criminal elite which is a police. When the criminal boss comes to pick up the interest, Granny Zina thoughtfully offers him a dinner. He is her own son…

One letter is able to turn around life of little man.

"The Winter That Changed" is a documentary about the events that took place on Euromaidan during the Revolution of Dignity.

Young woman’s husband died tragically. From possible kinds of burial she chooses cremation. The woman is late for a funeral… One of the crematorium workers has already received her husband ashes and is grinding them in a crusher. Then he carefully puts the package into the urn and sifts ashes there. But not all of them. He leaves a handful and sifts it into the rolling bin prepared beforehand... When the bin is full, the crematorium worker takes it home ... At his balcony, he grows tomatoes which need fertilizer. When the crematorium worker sells them, he assures customers that his product is ecologically clean.

Automaidan is the seventh film of the joint project "1+1 Production" and the creative Association "Babylon 13" from the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us".

“Mariupolchanka” is a women's football team. Its members, namely team captain Yana Vynokurova and coach Karina Kulakovska, were able to reinvent the team after they were disqualified from the Premier Football League, because the former leadership of the team has violated the rules. In 2018, at the time of filming, the goal of the team was to return to the Premier League on their own, without the former leadership. The women were able to find training facilities, attract new team members, and find money for props, salaries and travel expenses.

This work was created during the walk on Drahobrat mountain.

Five kids are biking harshly down the streets of some Ukrainian city. Suddenly, one of them falls off the bike and injures himself badly. There is chance to save the kid. For doing this his friends have to organize an ambulance. In the world the characters live this simple action turns to be an impossibly hard task.

Pregnant Lesia with no perspective for the future lives in expectation of a miracle. Together with her friend Olia she works as saleswoman at the kiosk at night. During the day she sleeps, so she won’t have to listen to her unemployed mother’s reproaches. That’s why she calls herself an owl. Every night while going to work Lesia thinks that something’s going to happen and her life will change. Every morning the girl goes home depressed because nothing has happened. Day and night, reality and girl’s nightmares blend. She is destined for the same losses – both in her life and her dreams.

The Fabulous Squirt is a female superhero who possesses the power to queer the norm. Pink, blue and violet are added to black, the binary becomes infinite variability, the weapon turns to confetti and celebration of life.

A short film exploring the nature of pain and pleasure and the feelings of guilt and loneliness.

Oksana’s subject in university is Ukrainian Studies, but outside the school she’s interested in intercultural relationships. The girl’s main interest is handsome rich foreigners. There’s countless amount of European countries flags at Oksana’s desk. Sometimes there’s more of them, sometimes there’s less. The girl can’t wait till there’s only one flag left. During the fifth year of the Ukrainian Studies course and her exploration of intercultural relationships the girl realizes that she’s more interested in her university subject. The last flag off the desk goes to trash…

Ania has a little son and has no husband. To take care of the child she has to work two jobs – dubbing cartoons and... providing sexual services by phone. Ania has a regular customer. He always calls in time and never misses sessions. Once the client calls to say goodbye – he leaves and won’t be able to call anymore. The girl feels sorry, so does he. They seem to have established s good relationship. The girl suggests the last sex. Ania doesn’t have an idea that it can really be the last one for the man – not everyone returns from where he goes...

Sasha has a house in Blahodatne village and a loving textbook wife. The second baby is on the way. They are paying out the loan for a big fridge and they dream to save some money for a gas boiler. In the distant future they plan to buy a low cost car and travel to Crimea. To bring those modest dreams to life Sasha had to develop a sophisticated illegal fraud scheme. Accidentally, Sasha’s scheme is revealed. Looks like travel to Crimea is going to be postponed.

Vasyl goes to work abroad. He will bring a significant amount of money and hopes to be able to spend it to support his family. But what is his family would be like? The patient mother seems limited in time. And his girlfriend has even less hope.

A story of pure love in dirty conditions.

A tale of changeless and sad pictures of village's last days of life, told through prism of a real story.

Following the 2013 Maidan Revolution in Kyiv, A Rising Fury takes viewers to the front lines of a growing conflict between Ukraine and Russia to witness firsthand a war that is tearing country and family apart.

He lives alone. He has nothing but a small house at the road. An old man loves to seat at the threshold and smoke a pipe. There are no neighbors for many miles around. Guests at his house are rare occurrence. But once a big black jeep appears near his house...

Little Seva watches his family break up, but there's nothing he can do about it. My father and mother are getting a divorce because my mother decided to go abroad. Before leaving, the father takes his son for a walk, they move along their usual route — a zoo, an ice cream parlor, a park. Usually such walks brought Seva great joy... but not today.

Sanko returns to his grandfather's house, where he spent his childhood.

Three different periods in life of a woman.

Professional weightlifter Petro is preparing for an important competition. But before the competition, he receives tragic news that forces him to make a difficult decision. Petro's inner conflict makes him into more than just a mechanical bundle of muscles.

At dawn, the mother blesses her son bidding him farewell. He is accompanied by his father. Together they go to the station. There, his girlfriend is waiting for him. She does not only see him off, but is going to leave with him. The father does not let her go. They stay, and the boy goes to where a new life awaits him, without the father’s watchful eye, mother’s care and girlfriend’s tears. According to the director, here the main character had difficult relationships, and there begins a new stage, his life will change, but we will not see it.

Krasna Malanka is a story about people from Romanian village Krasna on the territory of Ukraine, which are getting prepared for the Malanka holiday. This holiday is a landmark event for everybody in Krasna, especially for young men, for them it's the main initiation in life. Malanka is a carnival, a queer pagan show where everyone has his own part.

Pamfir wants to be a decent family man. Challenged by the circumstances, he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.

At the intersection of a provincial track and an international road a Gypsy community of a small Romanian town begin and end their day. It is the point of the geographical crossing that divides them from the rest of the world and keeps them within the traditional lifestyle, where in generations survive families, elderly, men and women, children and teenagers.

A short story about a grandfather and grandson.

A moving story about a closed religious community in Ukraine living away from the modern world and in harmony with nature. Their society is divided between those who respect its traditions and those facing its limits and questioning this way of life.

Reality in Ukraine was divided into two periods - before the war and after. Every citizen tries to be useful in this national resistance. Ukrainians change their professions and adapt to the needs of wartime. In art workshops, sculptors make anti-tank obstacles. Silent figures of Ukrainian figures, angels, Cossacks and multiple copies of Jesus Christ, like a terracotta army, froze in anticipation of new creations. Masters weld metal defenses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

He had been dreaming about this day for a very long time. Run away! As far away as possible from this provincial country, from degraded people. Finally, the suitcases are packed, the ticket is in hand, only a few kilometers separate this park from the airport and that's it: arividerci, Ukraine, bonjorno, Italy! But some heavy sadness in the soul does not let go. Whether it's autumn, or premature nostalgia... who among these worthless people wandering around the park could understand it? Explain to him where this aching melancholy came from, and how to get rid of it? Listen to the confession of the future emigrant will have a person who, at first glance, is not very suitable for this…