Kyiv State I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Institute of Theater Arts

An irritated truck driver decides to quit his job. However, his boss refuses to return the employment record book. The resulting scandal unexpectedly complicates an already highly emotional situation.

Many years later, a man recalls his youth—and looks back on an unforgettable first love cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.

Olezhka arrives at a hunting lodge to visit the elderly gamekeeper Bolotov, a former wartime comrade of his father. He is accompanied by two friends, Vadya and Nadinka. Lightheartedly and somewhat provocatively, Oleh introduces Nadinka as his wife—but Bolotov takes this lie to heart, embracing it with genuine emotion and reading into it a deeper meaning.

During World War II, Jernej learns about the movement of twelve enemy soldiers. He sets out to ambush and kill them, but this choice leads to devastating consequences.

Based on the short story “Too Late” by Latvian writer Egils Lukjanskis about one family that helped a German soldier during World War II.

The heavy hand of Soviet censorship oversees the production of a Western. As a result, instead of exchanging gunfire, the cowboys send each other air kisses, and instead of drinking whiskey, they sit down to read some books.

A wounded soldier limps through the forest, hovering on the brink of death. Among the trees, he catches sight of a woman—but she is in no hurry to help him.

Course work in Artur Voitetsky's workshop. Screen adaptation of Ilya Zverev's story. A school class agrees to never lie again. Suddenly, it turns out that the adults who had taught their children not to lie do not like the change in their behavior.

A film student shoots an étude on an elderly couple who meet late in life. You know how it goes: here they are in the rain, here they are on a swing, here they are dancing—something like love, or whatever that is.

An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things. It’s easiest to be cruel in life.

An intellectual and writer involved in underground revolutionary activity is imprisoned, where his convictions and will are put to the test. Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s short story “Mistake (Thoughts of a Prisoner)”.

Sketches from the life of an unnamed Middle Eastern country. The film features poems by Palestinian poet Muin Bseiso (1930–1984).

Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. Two knights travel across desolate lands to face the Dragon in a doomed battle.

A young postman is in love with a girl named Lika—her hair, her comb, her veil—yet they are not meant to be together. A young woman is in love with the postman—his bag, his letters, his love for Lika—yet they are not meant to be together.

1940s, a Ukrainian village. The children of war play at running a postal service. Limping slightly, the little “postman” delivers something different to each person: a machine gun from the front to one, a letter from a son to another, and a death notice to someone else.

Set in Lebanon, the film follows a man who moves to the city in search of a better life—only to end up begging and living in shacks. One day, a photographer captures his image, and the picture ends up on the back cover of a magazine. Convinced that this will change his fate, he sets out to find the issue—believing everything depends on it.

A rebel and escaped convict manages to hide in a garden after a shootout. There, he is unexpectedly stopped by a lively little girl named Olya, who mistakes him for her uncle. Half the town is searching for that man, but Olya has far more questions than anyone else.

Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s unfinished novella. At the end of the 19th century, a Ukrainian boy, Petro, is torn from his home and beloved and conscripted into the Russian army.

A rare representative of black comedy in Ukrainian Soviet cinema before the Perestroika era. Lapenkov is a petty Soviet townsman of an intensely neurotic disposition. One day, an artist approaches him on the street, obsessed with the idea of turning the man into the image of a murderer.

A man tired of the big city returnes to the village and suddenly strikes up a close friendship with a local deaf boy.