Directing
A nightmare comedy about a school counselor whose compassion, generosity and dedication destroy the lives of everyone around him.
Traumatised by her daughter's death a Ukrainian nurse takes retribution, but is conflicted by her faith and unprepared for the consequences.
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.
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.
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, spring of 2022. A perspective young couple has big dreams of a mutual succsesful future ahead of them. However, the start of Russian bombings plunges the entire city and everyone they know and love into a labyrinth of survival and uncertainty, backed by the blaring sounds of air raid sirens, forcing them to put their plans on hold. But, as time goes on, those plans change as well, until their hopes, dreams and everything else that formed their relationship is as different as the landscape of the city they once knew.
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.
