Ukrainian News and Documentary Film Studio

The sad uniqueness of Ukraine is that it has witnesses of two generations who survived the experience of war in childhood.

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

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".

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.

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 short documentary.

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.

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 film was shot in the village of Rusyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Once, a local resident erected a memorial stone cross here in memory of himself when he was leaving for Canada with his family. Vasyl Stefanyk recorded this story here, and in 1968 Leonid Osyka filmed it in Rusyn. Thirty years later, his student Oles Sanin returned to tell the story of the film's creation, talk to the local participants in the filming, and show them “The Stone Cross“.

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.

An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.

Poet Borys Oliynyk, as well as party officials and local residents, recount the coordinated cleanup efforts following the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

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

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

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

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 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.

Mykhailo Kolobok, a People's Artist who lost his bearings in life, became addicted to alcohol, and began to lose his family, his job, and his purpose in life. Only thanks to the powerful emotion of love does the main character change, and a completely different life begins for him. Partly inspired by the biography of the famous Ukrainian comedian Mykola Fedorovych Yakovchenko.