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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A boy named Roman appears in a village—an accidental drifter with no parents and no home. He is driven away from everywhere, yet he harbors no ill will toward anyone.

A father sees his son off on his final journey. Based on the story by Borys Hrinchenko.

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.

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.

Two people meet to recreate the final day of their relationship. Memories resurface—of the past, of their separation, of the darker and lighter moments of first love.

Two kolkhoz watchmen spend their free time each day playing cards and chess. Their competitive spirit gradually pushes the old friends to unforeseen extremes.

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

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

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.

Vitia turns 18 and is drafted into the army. In order to begin his service, he must leave behind his beloved bicycle, his athlete friends, and the velodrome.

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)”.

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