Vitalii Dokalenko

Based on true events, a historical drama about one man's struggle against the authorities that leads to a mutiny on a Soviet warship.

February 23rd, 2022. The staff of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant arrived for the usual 15-hour shift. But at the dawn, the Russian military arrived at the gates and it would be another 36 days before they could return home.

Karlsruhe, Germany, 1962. KGB agent Bogdan Stashynskii is trialed for the assasination of Ukrainian revolutionary and head of the now disbanded Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Stepan Bandera. However, Slava Stetsko and her spouse Yaroslav decide to take action and turn the trial into not just a memorial for Bandera, but into a through critique of the USSSR's web of political assasinations, but also the political indifference to the situation in the West.

Based on the events of the documentary “Chornobyl 2022”. Three young friends go on an extreme trip to the closed zone of Chornobyl, shortly before the Russian invasion. The main character Santa goes to the Chornobyl zone for a video blog and to meet a love interest she recently met on Tinder.

The story of the Kyiv boys’ and young men’s choir “Dzvinochok,” which has preserved its sound for 60 years through bans, censorship, and life during war, and today resonates worldwide as the voice of Ukraine.