Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema

Young cello player Nastya is besotted with Yura and wants him to be her "first". But this can be too much for some men, so Nastya has to think carefully about her strategy.

Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory.

What is the stranger you have picked up on the side of the road thinking? Maybe he knows what you think? Shot in Baku with non-professional actors, this project was born by chance when the director met with Sarkhan and Sabir, the two protagonists of the movie. This short film offers us the chance to watch a few hours of the strange fate of a young man linked to a criminal association.

A terrible accident happens on the New Year's Eve: the girl is taken to the intensive care, while her friend becomes mute after the shock. The parents try to find the way out of this situation, but first, they need to face their own problems and understand the value of life with the help of the cutting edge of technology.

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory.

Coda is the final chapter in music that replicates all the main themes of music.

When her daughter vanishes under suspicious circumstances, a perfectionist architect must confront harsh truths—and seek help from the ex-husband she left behind.

One extraordinary technical break. A report with no cuts.

Young MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward.

On a warm fall day, a construction worker decides to have a lunch break, a young girl takes care of her elderly grandmother, a film director tries to edit his documentary footage.

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Immersed in the complicated case and long forgotten memories, they create a future where their children have to live, inheriting unrealized aspirations of their parents.

A lone car drives across the vast expanses of the Ukrainian landscape. Two young men are traveling to celebrate their elder brother’s birthday, but their plan is delayed when their car breaks down.

Crimea. A young Crimean Tatar Aziz falls in love with Masha, a Russian girl. Their parents will stop at nothing to separate them.

That Christmas wasn't particularly snowy in Lviv, however it didn't spoil the mood for tourists and locals. Mother and her daughter taking advantage of people's inattention steal from shops and sell it in social networks.

The shadows is about homelessness, but not about hopelessness. The difference between them it’s just one letter. But at the same time it’s an abyss. This story began three years ago as an observation of the photographer Sasha Chekmenyov during his work with the homeless. It was supposed to be a film about another world that we wish to ignore.

The stuff and visitors of one of the state institutions going through their daily routine. This buildings is full of mystery and secrets. Nobody can understand the issues they are trying to solve or to find the final destination of their corridor marathons. We can only trust and wonder how everything is organized here.

During the political crisis in the Ukraine, young parents are going through a tough divorce. The mother wishes to emigrate with her child, but the father can't imagine living without his son.

Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own apartment in a residential area of Kyiv. They are madly in love with each other, but their happiness and lives are suddenly threatened. There seems to be a real evil lurking behind the walls of the apartment, which is about to break out.

After several years on the frontline, Sasha, a female sniper in the Ukrainian army, returns to her home village, determined to forget the war and return to a peaceful life. But she finds out that her father, a forester, disappeared because of his resistance to illegal loggers who are destroying the century-old Carpathian forest. Alone against all odds, she decides to bring justice.