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From its first days, the Euromaidan was guarded by Self-Defense - the volunteers who maintained order and security by working in shifts. Now most of them serve in the National Guard of Ukraine, and the rest have created self-defense squads in cities and villages all over Ukraine and maintain public order. The Odesa Self-Defense revealed a scheme for smuggling fuel via the sea port to the occupied territories of the Donbas.
The end of the world isn’t a global catastrophe, but an inner sense of total collapse, like for a man who’s lost his job and doubts his wife’s loyalty. In despair, he goes fishing and finds a wounded angel. He takes the angel home on his bicycle and introduces him to his family. But soon after, during a party at a local bar, the angel is accidentally shot by a neighborhood policeman. Based on Gabriel García Márquez’s short story 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings'.
Seventeen-year-old Alina is in love with an imposing Frenchman. Suddenly, she loses her sense of humor. But not for long.
A young Orthodox priest, fed up with too much intolerance and hypocrisy at the Kyiv Pechery Lavra, decides to leave his service there. He finds for himself a new flock: gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people as well as those living with HIV/AIDS. However, the official Orthodox Church denies them in the right to be Christians and homophobic society compels them to hide their sexual orientation. What has to happen to make the Church embower LGBT believers?
While he was fleeing Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych tried to destroy all the evidence of his government's corrupt activities. In order to save the drowned, slashed and burned papers and bring about the punishment of the criminals in power, journalists and volunteers organized the White Collar Unit, which day by day is building up valid proof of the crimes from the tiniest pieces.
This absurd story began in Kherson, Ukraine. Young people create a cultural centre to protect the oldest cinema in the city. But the land at the centre of this city attracts officials and deputies; they want to free up the territory and start a war against the cultural activists.
About the performances, backstage life, theater actors and their fans. One group performed every evening. A full hall gathered day after day, and a little sad beetle, who loved the leading actor, was among the many spectators. Can she dare to approach him, handing her bouquet?
The authors of the film spend several weeks observing four people on the eve of the presidential elections in Ukraine. All four of them are from different regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Crimea, Irpin and Kyiv. What they have in common are the wounds they received during the protest actions in Ukraine. Maidan is losing its relevance, and the four characters in the film are trying to deal with their personal problems and take an active part in the country's civic life.
Russian citizens who rebelled against the authoritarian policy of Moscow are seeking asylum in Ukraine. Are they welcomed here? We follow political refugee from Russia Alexey Vetrov who tries to get refugee status in Ukraine. Despite all the burdens of living with no documents, he works and participates many civil actions. The escape of Nurkhan, a journalist, was forced by her covering the so-called Osh massacre in Kyrgyzstan. Now she and her three teenage daughters are seeking for asylum in Ukraine.
Due to the war with Russia, 12-year-old Misha is uprooted from his home city of Kyiv and forced to flee to a small Polish town. Struggling to adjust to his new reality and desperate to hold on to the memories of his past life, Misha clings to his phone as a lifeline to his friends and the adventures they left behind.
The film is the authors' reflection on human choices during the war. The heroes travel from Kyiv to Kharkiv and from Kharkiv to Kryvyi Rih, where they will eventually have to choose what is more important during the war - escaping alone or staying together despite the danger and threat to life.
A young Ukrainian journalist films “stories” on Instagram from the center of events. In the daytime, he is at the political demonstrations, at night – at the bars and parties. He has to decide where his own place is.
In the 90s, Kyiv was captured by a new culture that came from the West - breakdance. Yurii Savchuk, or Flus, was the one who "brought breakdancing to Ukraine". It is the story of the man who has changed the cultural landscape of our country and still lives the dream of dance.
Andrew Phillip Wolfensberger is a radio presenter on Winterthur community radio. Andrew's show Highnoon (the most flourishing and creative period) has been on air for six years and is famous for the song of the week - Andrew singing citizens' letters published in a local newspaper. The film is an essay about Swiss identity, community life, and the relationship between the man and the city.
A documentary film reflection. A daughter attempts to decipher and memorize the "universe of her dad," a lightning researcher, whom, as it turned out after his death, she never fully got to know. Neither he nor his lasting legacy. This is her attempt to think about how long our memory lasts about the people who meant something to us, who did something and created something next to us. The film attempts to fix the fleeing clues of memory in time to keep it longer. And, of course, she attempts to remember everything or at least something he was for her.
Anton is an ordinary guy from Kryvyi Rih who plays computer games, listens to rap music, and works as an IT engineer. But after the Revolution of Dignity, he began fighting against the corrupt local authorities, which are still dominated by representatives of the regime of fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and Soviet methods of governance. Anton strives to make Kryvyi Rih a better place to live, but the system retaliates with smear campaigns and lawsuits against him. One of the pressing issues for Anton is to improve the local public transport system in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's longest city. A city where you are unlikely to get anywhere by public transport after 8 p.m.
The forefront of the global opposition between the state machine, corporations, and communities has been in Ukraine for the past few years. Symbols of the Maidan revolution – Molotov cocktails and burning tires – had already appeared in 2010 in a small village near Odessa. The community’s voice was not heard, and a peaceful protest against a mighty state energy project inevitably turned into violent clashes. Live Power is a four-year story, the story of the fight by the residents of the village of Usatovo against two transmission lines financed by EBRD to be built over their village, a story with the happy end.
In Spring 2020, Ukraine is in lockdown. Returning to the family household after three years away, Olena Kyrychenko finds a depressive mother and an ill father, who is drowning his forced unemployment in alcohol. Her film chronicles with precision an extimate territory, located on the edge of the lost world of childhood and the disenchanted reality of adulthood.
Since childhood, Yevhen has shown a peculiar fascination with cemeteries; today he is the author of more than a hundred monuments. In his community, he plays an important social role by drawing attention to memory and reconciliation, creating memorials for those who found their final rest in a small town in western Ukraine. Throughout the film, we observe this eccentric man with his homespun philosophy and sense of humor, who manages to combine cosmopolitanism and asceticism with an active, provocative presence in the everyday life of his community.
