Mariia Ponomarova

A team of aging Ukrainian cheerleaders prepares to compete for the European championship. When the war escalates, the members are separated. Will the sisterhood be able to reunite amidst the emerging scars of war?

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.

A young filmmaker Ihor finds a hidden and unpublished photo archive of his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, a famous Soviet cinematographer. Discovering a man that he never knew well enough through the damaged pictures, he gets closer to his dementing grandpa, facing the tension between memory and forgetting.

The boring every day life of a single 45 year old lady, tired of her job as a linguist, of fruitless searches for an apartment for her son, of loneliness and the absence of a man's attention. Her real estate manager friend offers her to do something new and attend a special massage course. But the decision to accept isn't as straight forward as it seems.

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

Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.

Two loners are running in the park, both are keeping their rhythm and tempo. Their ways are crossing and the run is becoming something more than the regular change of inhaling and exhaling. However, this run will leave one of them out of breath.

Starting from a picture of her apartment in Kyiv, filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova remembers the life she has lived there. In three conversations with her mother and her friends, they reminisce about sleepovers, the view from the window and drunken nights on the rooftop. Through these memories, she begins to reclaim the image of her home.

In a train compartment rushing through snow-covered fields, a married couple is traveling—a sharp-tongued wife and her unhappy husband. The clinking of spoons in cup holders, the slamming of doors, the annoying radio—everything is as usual. However, the train suddenly stops at a small station where there is nothing but, perhaps, an ice cream...

The fifth film in the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us". What is self-defense, directors Konstantin Klyatskin and Maria Ponomareva undertook to explain. Participants of the protests will remember how the Maidan self-defense arose. One of the heroes of the film is Thomas from the group "Mandri", who, being an active participant in Euromaidan, participated in the delight of the Ministry of Culture. The fact that people had to physically defend themselves, defending themselves from their own power, director Konstantin Klyatskin calls a phenomenon that is difficult to fit in the head...

Post-Soviet summer camp near Kyiv. Danya (16) prepares a special performance for the visit of his father, who is not living with him for a long time. However, Danya's father arrives earlier than expected and comes to the camp not alone.

My birthday is the brightest day of a year. My birthday always starts at the cemetery.