Serhiy Zhadan

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of literature, art and music and the brightest representative of Lviv underground culture of late 60s early 70s.

A documentary feature film about Oles Uljanenko, an author and cult figure of Ukrainian post-Soviet culture. His works were banned by Ukrainian authorities having judged them as pornographic and as ones that should be destroyed.

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.

A biographical music documentary about Okean Elzy, Ukraine's most iconic band: from obscurity to stadiums, their journey spans internal conflicts, creative challenges, and the country's turbulent history.

The combination of poetry, music and visual imagery creates a new organic body which audience look closely to. The film-concert and adaptation of the performance "RozdIlovI" (aka Divided or Divisional) - a cult multidisciplinary project of the art agency ArtPole.

After overhearing a quarrel, Witold, a new resident of the communal apartment, meets a young writer Serhiy. In no time, Serhiy becomes an extraordinary figure in Witold's life, revealing new and exciting sides of his personality. This short film is a quirky and absurd tragicomedy about artistic life and its pitfalls. Witold is based on the short story called My Nightmares by Serhiy Zhadan.

A hotel in a frontline town. A man and a woman, both military personnel, who have recently met, decide to spend a night of love together. Awkwardly communicating with each other, they learn that neither of them drinks alcohol and both take pills. She takes sedatives, he takes sleeping pills. The man clumsily tries to create a romantic atmosphere, but fails. The woman reassures him, and they kiss. During a tender kiss, the woman becomes frightened by this intimacy and goes to take a shower, leaving the man alone in the room.

A young man named Roma arrives in the city and settles in with Dasha, an acquaintance of his mother. Dasha is a single mother who works constantly, and her 12-year-old son Amin spends most of his time living with his grandparents. Roma tries to find a reason to make love to Dasha.

Three friends have to urgently find the fourth, who has disappeared in an unknown direction, and inform him about his stepfather's suicide. In one of the apartments, they find an acquaintance nicknamed "Cocoa" who tells them about the whereabouts of the missing Sasha Carburetor. In the same apartment, under the influence of light drugs, Vasya the Communist and another character in the film named Zhadan listen to an evening program about the British band Depeche Mode.

A film about the boundaries we set among ourselves, so as not to speak on complex topics and not to quarrel in difficult times.