
Anna Yatsenko
Directing
Biography
Anna was born in Ukraine. In 2018 she graduated from The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University as a film director. Since 2017 until 2019 she had been working as a film director and producer in the production company Limelite. Since 2020 became co-owner ForeFilms, and co-producer all the films, produced by the company. Before marriage, Anna made films under the name Sobolevskaya. In 2022, she married producer Vladimir Yatsenko and took her husband's surname.
Known For

After the explosion of the Earth, the Ukrainian space trucker Andriy becomes the only human in the Universe until French woman Catherine calls him from the faraway space station. Andriy decides to see her despite all the obstacles.
U Are the Universe

Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Compared to her life back in Ukraine, life in Israel is great for Christina. She works in a beauty salon, earns her own money, and loves Israel. Her Israeli husband Michael is also satisfied with this marriage. He is happy that he found a woman who can live with him. In fact, he is so satisfied that he starts his own little business scouting for Ukrainian brides for other Israeli men. Michael’s recent matchmaking is a special one—the bride’s name is Valeria, and she’s Christina’s younger sister. Michael went out of his way and found the best man he could get for her. His name is Eitan, and while he may not be the most handsome guy in the country, he is a good-hearted, generous man. However, Valeria is different to her older sister. And the whole delicate balance is at risk.
Valeria Is Getting Married

Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving the country. As a result, they both go to Luxembourg in search of their dad: Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasylii thinks he is a scoundrel.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Plot TBA. Represents Radu Jude's feelings of "creative obligation" to Romania and channels Roberto Rossellini's 1948 film 'L'amore' while exploring sociopolitical tensions in Europe.
Love Diptych

Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.
Homeward

A dystopian story set in post-war Ukraine, where a frustrated film director struggles to make the most of his life after being denied the opportunity to pursue his movie-making career. Estranged from his wife and daughter, who have been living in Vienna and are reluctant to return to their war-torn nation, the director tries to find solace in his conviction that the difficult times will pass and life will return to normal.
To the Victory!

A story about relationships between children and adults broken by shaky 1990s in Ukraine. The boy Tymophii befriends a weird man named Felix. He's the veteran of Afghan war, he has PTSD and he loves music.
Rock Paper Grenade

At the disco Andriy, an 18-year-old boy, meets his classmate Zhenya, who moved away from their provincial town a few years earlier. When Zhenya disappears, all suspicion falls on Andriy who returns home in his friend’s sneakers. Zhenya's father, a local criminal authority, independently begins the search for his son.
Jordan ‘96

Victoria is a call center operator for the Psychological Support Service. She lives with a drug addict partner and dreams of reconciliation with her son, who is temporarily raised by her mother. When her partner steals the only money they've had and disappears, and her mother announces she's about to sue for the child's custody, Victoria decides that the only one way out is to commit suicide. However, at the very edge between life and death, she finds the true path to herself.
Operator Victoria

At the age of 16, Maria is in despair after the death of her mother as her life turns into hell. But she has to deal with the new circumstances. Every day turns into a trial. She is being isolated in a small apartment in one of Kyiv’s Residential districts, constantly suffering from sexual abuse. Being forced into this situation yet again, Maria decides on a desperate deed to put an end to years of violence from which she has suffered.
Maria

Ukraine. The time of the military Russian invasion. Two Ukrainian soldiers are doing the "routine" work of transporting the bodies of the dead.
Alive

The digitizing of human souls means the nature of humanity itself changes in the future.
Eternity

Business analyst Andriy, loaded with his work affairs and responsibilities, takes care of his father's post surgery rehabilitation. Trying to be in several places at the same time and worrying about the needs of others, Andrew forgets about his own.
Good Boy
No description available.
Portrait of the Leader

On the way to her dream of becoming an actress, Sasha cannot be stopped by her mother, war and poverty. Will Sasha be stopped by the spear that accidentally stabbed her on a stupid shootings?
Screaming Girl

The newly minted family moves into a new home. It happened just a couple of days after the two girls, Rita (12) and Kira (10), were told that their parents would soon get married. So now they will become step-sisters and live together – they will be one big family. Rita is happy finally to get the good father she always dreamed of. Kira does not like the idea of the new family at all. New rules and new conflicts arise in the new family life. Someone has to give in, but neither girl is willing to give up. Parents decide to make a new, common child. This threat unites girls.
Siblings

A new planned film adaptation of Vsevolod Nestayko's novel.