Ukrainian News and Documentary Film Studio

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.

Documentary about mass actions on the streets of Kyiv between 1989 and 1991 just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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

A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.

About a young poet, a 6th grade student of Makiivka Secondary School No. 30 (Donetsk Oblast), Oleksandr Kachur, who won the main UNESCO Golden Pegasus prize in 1991 at the International Contest of Beginning Poets.

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.

The heroine of the film is a talented Ukrainian film actress Maria Kapnist. The film acquaints with the well-known family of Decembrists - Kapnists, with the difficult camp past of the heroine, with screen images of Maria Rostislavovna.

A movie shot in almost one single take. The parable should not be interpreted in words.

The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.

To be able to somehow survive, two students pretend to be businessmen from a fictional international business company. Acquainted with several girls, they choose the richest one and marry her. This is followed by a robbery and a search for the criminals by the police.

Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in the dusk of USSR.

The film is dedicated to one of the most shameful and painful pages in history – the violent deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.

The subjective-personal context is perceived as an objective document of the era, a true testimony of the time when it was created and experienced. The author reflects on events of different historical scale, but equally significant for a person. The film is built on the principle of montage of free associations: from memories of the grandmother and reflections on "the time of our grandmothers" to the image of Vira Kholodnaya as the embodiment of femininity, and then - at a sharp turn - to the problems of inter-ethnic conflicts.

People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Y. Ilyenko and dissident Y. Sverstiuk tell about the Ukrainian poet and human rights activist Vasyl Stus. The reburial of the ashes of Vasyl Stus at the Baikove cemetery and demonstrations of national democratic associations are shown.

Two students without diplomas: Oles Sanin and Serhiy Mikhalchuk got hold of four boxes of long-expired black-and-white film, borrowed a camera from Ukrkinochronika, and went to the Carpathians, to those who live closer to God, and decided to meet the End of the World with them.

Shot at a children’s cemetery seven years after Chornobyl. The author is delicately showing human grief from the point of view of not an outside observer trying to shoot reportage but a parent like his heroes. The death of an adult is a tragedy, while child’s death is a catastrophe. As long as such cemeteries exist, this pain will exist, too.

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.