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Browse 102 movies from Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Detective conducts the surveillance for a young man. After a time he discovers his dealer, however the dealer appears to be very creative in his business and a legal agent exceeds his instructions in methods of dealing with crimes. As a result, this encourages the dealer's reckless behavior, which attacks his prodigal father who just appears in the wrong place and the wrong time. He just wanted to give his son a hug.
Jul 2013
A boy confesses his love to a girl — and turns to stone forever.
Jan 2025
Coda is the final chapter in music that replicates all the main themes of music.
Mar 2017
An honest and just judge, despite attempts at bribery and threats, dares to pass a fair sentence, and face with dire consequences.
Oct 2021
The war and the death of their father brings the two brothers back home. Grieving mother tries to hide from Stasik the truth about Bodia. Everything would go well, if not for the military mercenaries who come after Bodia's life.
Aug 2020
Short animated musical performance of a work by Valentin Silvestrov based on Taras Shevchenko's verses, combined with animation of each line of the poem by different young directors.
Oct 2022
11-year-old Anya lives in an almost perfect world, but her only dream is to see her father more often. The tension between her parents becomes a barrier, but dreams do come true, don't they? A clever dad finds a solution to make sure they have a great summer together.
Sep 2024
A militia officer Jora is the customer of the Internet service provider. He has a problem. Being unable to resolve it with a phone call, he decides to take matters into his own hands.
Jun 2014
Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed.
Jul 2016
Having deceived his nurse and left his mother to live out her life alone, a man believes he has bought himself peace. But there is a price to pay for everything, and the price turns out to be higher than he thought.
Dec 2025
A story about a lonely, unfulfilled woman who is afraid of becoming useless. But the one who really needs it is considered a burden.
Aug 2016
A nurse keeps a patient in a coma, but one day his wife and son visit him.
Jun 2025
While on night duty at a psychiatric clinic, student psychotherapist Andriy encounters a patient who knows more about him than he should.
Jun 2026
The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that moment. When he comes back, he founds his daughter on the threshold, ready to leave. The old man sees off his daughter with sadness. And then takes the gun. Everything’s going to change in a moment… The Beard will disappear.
Apr 2012
Andrii and Nina live together in their family house. Their household is harmonious: with every-day schedule and personal hobbies. Someday unknown forces took over a part of their house. Brother and sister are continuing their life there and trying to defeat those forces and themselves.
Mar 2024
In a small Ukrainian village in the 1830s, a youthful Kateryna leaves her fioncee Myron for Ivan, a soldier in the Russian imperial army, who promises to make her his wife after returning from his draft in the Russo-Ottoman War. However, he never returns and Kateryna soon grows desperate.
Jul 2014
Alice gets into an asylum for the mentally ill called "Wonderland." There, for the first time in her life, she encounters truly sick people and unusual rules, breaking which is a much bigger problem than Alice might think.
Despite himself, a doctor has to go with his young patient in the mountains. He will never forget this trip. Through a "mise en abyme" of the filmic process by an original method that reveals what the protagonist is filming, we are constantly rocked between the freshness of the film and the drama being played.
Dec 2014
For the first time in several years, a father with his son decided to have dinner together. Will they be able to find a common language?
May 2021
A story about students who made a film with a blind cameraman that won a grant-prize at a festival