Oleksii Yeroshenko

Filmed during one night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of war-torn Ukraine. Between fear and exhaustion, moments of joy and scenes of the ordinary day to day, we watch as life goes on in spite of everything, witnessing the resilience of a nation gripped by uncertainty.

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

The third school year begins in Ukraine under the shadow of a full-scale war. Natalia, a teacher in a seemingly peaceful Ukrainian city, is about to welcome a new class. She creates an island of safety and joy for her fifth-graders, which helps her to abstract from worries about her own son, who serves on the front line.

Igor Goman is a storyteller from the village of Oleksandrivka, Kherson region. He has a mental imbalance and has no close people. Isolated from society because of his oddity, he writes fair, naive tales, full of humanism and mercy.

Is there a future without knowledge of history, culture and tradition? Dmytro, a potter and soloist of the ethno-group "Shchuka Ryba" (what literally means "pike fish"), is looking for an answer to this question, trying to introduce respect and love for tradition into the life of modern Kyiv. But the heart of the capital, Khreshchatyk, is full of oblivion and pain.

Rescued by a combat medic after a severe injury on the frontline, a Ukrainian soldier undergoes rehabilitation, confronting physical and emotional challenges on his path back to civilian life, driven by a single wish: to return home.

A group of activists is fighting to preserve a historical landmark in the center of Kyiv from a developer. Their struggle is an exact parallel to the fight for memory that took place a century ago, when the soviet government attempted to erase Ukrainian identity.

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