Christina Tynkevych

Twenty-five-year-old Vadym earns a living recording and selling all kinds of different sounds; nevertheless, he’d rather exchange his life in Kyiv for a better future in far-flung Canada. Thus, when he gets a generous job offer which might help him realise his dream, he jumps at the chance; he soon sets off to record the sounds of animals indigenous to Ukraine and also a rare bird native to the Carpathians. The situation proves somewhat more complicated when Vadym’s companion on the trip turns out to be his mother… To the sounds of a synthesized music score, debuting Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich unfolds a visually creative road movie, in which he demonstrates a highly unusual talent for constructing tragicomic situations.

Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.

A nightmare comedy about a school counselor whose compassion, generosity and dedication destroy the lives of everyone around him.

Anna has just taken on a mortgage in dreams of a better life with her daughter Katia. Instead, a turn of events makes Anna face a dilemma that will change her personal moral borders in a society that hasn't got any.

A glimpse into the lives of the first post-Soviet generation of Ukrainians. Who are those born at the collapse of the Soviet era and what do they think about their country, nation and identity? An avant-garde playwright from Kyiv, a factory worker from a small village in Sumy, a politician from Lutsk, an ex-soldier from the East - the list goes on. Together they form a mosaic portrait of a generation and of Ukraine today.

Kyiv, Ukraine, Spring 2015. The war with Russia is five hundred miles to the East, but since the revolution of 2013-14, every moment of Kristina's life has been affected by the conflict.