Oles Sanin

In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom?

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot several "enemies of the people". Unexpectedly, a rural wedding found itself at the crime scene. Pursuant to the instruction, witnesses were also eliminated...

Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "

The film looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.

The film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of 1959, when in Munich KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi killed Stepan Bandera.

French monk Dominic is sent to Kyiv, pretending to be a photographer for a French fashion magazine. He has to make a photo inside Ukraine's oldest Cathedral. Dominic is accompanied by mysterious assistant, who in reality is the member of the French secret order, sent to Kyiv after news that one ancient artifact may be in danger...

The film was shot in the village of Rusyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Once, a local resident erected a memorial stone cross here in memory of himself when he was leaving for Canada with his family. Vasyl Stefanyk recorded this story here, and in 1968 Leonid Osyka filmed it in Rusyn. Thirty years later, his student Oles Sanin returned to tell the story of the film's creation, talk to the local participants in the filming, and show them “The Stone Cross“.

Every day, a man parks a car in the pedestrian zone. One day, he notices that he almost ran into a young tree. After that, he orders fences for all the seedlings so that they are not worn by other drivers.

Two students without diplomas: Oles Sanin and Serhiy Mikhalchuk got hold of four boxes of long-expired black-and-white film, borrowed a camera from Ukrkinochronika, and went to the Carpathians, to those who live closer to God, and decided to meet the End of the World with them.

Retired and active (at the time of filming) high-ranking officials of Ukraine's security forces talk about the turning point of the Orange Revolution and analyze the reasons for the security forces' disobedience. Among them are: Commander of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Oleksandr Kikhtenko, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Petruk, Head of Military Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine Vitaliy Romanchenko, Deputy Head of Military Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Mykola Melnyk. On the other hand, top-level Ukrainian politicians reveal unknown, often sensational facts about the negotiations between the authorities and the opposition: President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn, and others.