Oleksandr Koval

Documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian humorist Ostap Vyshnia.

Documentary about post-Soviet society’s abandonment of cinema in favour of the free market.

The main character of the film is grandpa Ivan, a trembita player from Ivano-Frankivsk region. Through his story, Oleksandr Koval returns to his favorite method - looking at the Ukrainian village via intimate stories of his inhabitants.

The figure of the world-famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Fedorovych Marchuk, whose paintings present Ukrainian art on all continents of the world, became the basis of this documentary.

A touching cinematic portrait of a woman who survived the 1933 Holodomor and whose life comprised more dramatic moments than a screenwriter could possibly describe. This is one of the first films raising the issue of the Great Famine.

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

The documentary about the destinies of women who lived or are living in different regions of Ukraine, and explores their destinies in the present. The film tells about the fate of the heroines of the film "Declaration of Love" (1966) Tekla Barmashova (killed in 1922), veterans Elizaveta Marapulets (died in 1982), Maria Lahunova (died in 1995), agronomist Maria Molodyk-Kryvokulska, milkmaid, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Nina Sribna-Babenko, violinist Lyubov Chaikovska and glider, master of sports Zinaida Solovei. Female heroines and their loved ones share memories, problems, talk about modern Ukraine.

The story of Mykola Sarma-Sokolovsky, an Orthodox priest who, defending the ideas of an independent Ukraine, devoted his entire life to the struggle for its independence. From a young age he was the leader of one of the underground units of the UPA. For his views and activities he served many years in Soviet concentration camps. Father Mykola is a gifted person in many ways: he is an artist, a poet, a bandura singer.

Two years after the Chornobyl nuclear accident survivors come together to remember the aftermath of the tragedy.

Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era.

Documentary about the director of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi Historical and Cultural Reserve (Kyiv region), M. Sikorsky. Dr. Drektor speaks at a meeting and gives an interview. Employees of the reserve tell about M. Sikorsky. The Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi Museum of Folk Architecture and Life is shown.

The filmmaking debut by Oleksandr Koval, which was filmed as a graduation work at the "Ukrkinokhronika" studio on the invitation of its director Viktor Shkurin. Story about the crew of Afanasiy Nikitin rescue ship in the Black Sea near Odesa. The film conveys the true poetics of the sea, the love for which arose in the filmmaker during his numerous internships at various studios in the USSR, including the ones located in Magadan.

A documentary drama about Maria Kutyr, a resident of Chapayivka (Zolotonosha district, Cherkasy region), whose life reflected the fate of Ukrainian women from the World War II generation.

The film tells the story of patients at the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are being treated with art by rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Its main idea is to make us "normal" people think about our lives and actions in the "normal" world.

About the difficult fate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The film contains 4 parts: "Wreath of Thorns", "Ridges on me", "Neophytes", "And not the seventh seal".

The universe of Ukrainian village has always been one of the key topics for Oleksandr Koval. This film is his cinematic testament and, at the same time, a lyrical cinematic confession, which was filmed in his native village of Zherdova near Kyiv, where he was born and where he started his "career in cinema" as a cinema mechanic. This work is particularly illustrative with regard to Koval's tragic view of himself as a person who had to conceal his true self throughout his life.

The film is about Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, a folk poetess and collector of folk song pearls of the Hutsul region. The heroine of the film talks about her worldview, about the years spent in the Gulag, reads her own poems.