In summer 2014, the sunflower fields and coal mines of eastern Ukraine turned into a crime scene measuring 12 square kilometres. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped piece of shrapnel found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

To impress the maid girl of a wealthy estate, young chumak* Yarema agrees to rescue the son of a railroad magnate, possessed by a mysterious entity.
* Chumaks – salt deliverers from one region to another, living in the constant dangerous travel. In 20th century chumaks gave way to the railroad.

In war-torn Ukraine, three friend photographers from the renowned Kharkiv School of Photography decided to adapt their practice to the horror of the war. Yet, the brutal reality of conflict forces them to confront their role, risking their hedonistic identity as they are drawn deeper into the war’s grasp.

65-year-old Slavik fled from Mariupol after the Russians destroyed the city.
His story is deeply connected with the director’s: Vlad, then a soldier in a volunteer battalion, met Slavik in 2015. Slavik showed his museum, which looks like a weird cellar, and since that time, Vlad’s camera has started to observe the character and create a picture of Mariupol between 2014 and 2022. The film’s reversed storyline brings Slavik back to his early years and Mariupol to the epoch before the disaster.

This is a coming of age story, about a generation of young Ukrainians whose lives have been defined by war. At the core of our story are the lives of three young men — Brodiaha, Krama, and Bars. For all of them, the battle for Mariupol began in 2014. It started in an abandoned school on the outskirts of the city, where they joined up to the Azov regiment, and it ended in the Azovstal steel plant in May 2022 — once one of the largest steel plants in the world, and by then a bombed-out shell.

The Shyrokyne offensive near Mariupol in 2015 divided the lives of three war volunteers into “before and after”. With inner feeling “mentally dead” and united by a common desire to be reborn from the ashes of despair, in their 8-year journey, men try to find a new sense of life… As soon as their life started to improve, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 started.

Mykhailo Baidakov believes he is a direct descendant of Taras Shevchenko and is ready to prove it through a DNA test — but will his claim challenge the national cult surrounding Ukraine’s most revered poet, and redefine what it means to be part of Shevchenko’s legacy?

A first-person view movie. A time jump from the battlefield of the russian-Ukrainian war to 2013 to become a participant of revolution (Maidan). The viewer will go from the peaceful march of millions to the bloody confrontation in the government quarter

In-depth documentary portrait of one of the greatest film directors of the 20th century, Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film follows his tumultuous journey, from his early days in cinema to creating iconic films that defined Ukrainian poetic cinema, while navigating the challenges of artistic integrity and political pressures in the Soviet era.

In the shadow of war, ordinary American heroes redefine courage in Ukraine. This is their story. A rare film from the perspective of American volunteers, first and unique access into the International Legion of Ukraine, capturing the human connections and global bonds created from the ongoing war. The main characters are professional American soldiers who volunteered to join the Ukrainian unit of the International Legion and perform combat missions in the hottest spots of the frontline.

The 72-year-old Godmother, a medic in one of the military units in Mariupol, ended up at Azovstal after the city’s occupation by the Russians and was later taken captive. The film tells the story of her incredible resilience and the light she shared with the soldiers, becoming their Godmother and her attempt to find herself in new reality.

At the end of 2023, we traveled thousands of kilometers, asking Ukrainian soldiers: is there any place for jokes at war? The soldiers from the 17th Tank Brigade, Tor’s unit, Molot’s unit, and medical service of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine told us how a sense of humor helps them in wartime life. Our heroes are from different units and different parts of the front-line, they have different specifications and experience, but one thing is the same for them all: humor helps them to endure the greatest stresses and to be steadfast and persistent.

Roma was working in London when the Ukrainian conflict rapidly escalated with Russia’s massive army rolling across the border of his home. He decides to return to his family, whose town soon becomes a battlefield. While they take shelter in basements, cut off from the rest of their country by encircling Russian forces, Roma joins an air intelligence unit, operating drones to locate the whereabouts of the invading force, but also to find those surviving in the most desperate conditions. As the crow flies, Roma is so close to his family, but in reality, the gulf between them is enormous. Hanna Tykha’s riveting and profoundly humane film captures Roma’s predicament, from his journey home to his attempts to ensure the safety of his family.

Through its two parallel plotlines, the film follows the exploits of a volunteer evacuation team in the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, led by young, precociously stoic Anton, as well as the wartime daily lives and unlikely friendship of two elderly women – pragmatic Zinaida and dreamy, starry-eyed Taisia – who decided to stay at their homes in the now de-occupied Chernihiv region. While Anton faces the most visceral horrors of war on a daily basis during his team’s urgent, desperate attempts to rescue the most vulnerable, who are often reluctant or unwilling to leave, Zinaida and Taisia seek to pursue any forms of resistance within their power – from praying and writing poetry to hiding historic plaque and reporting intelligence to the Ukrainian military.

The film’s events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood. The film combines places and people that best capture the country’s wartime spirit. The locations are: the relatively safe cities of Kyiv and Lviv; the cities under daily missile fire of Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, a trench at the frontlines in Donetsk oblast, and the beaches of Odesa.

The film presents a day in the life of: a beach police patrol, a woman anti-tank missile soldier, a rapid assault unit soldier, a mortar unit soldier (all three serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine), a young pub worker, an artist and a former member of parliament. Together, these people and places will provide an engaging mosaic of a day in the life of Ukraine.

A series of twelve short documentaries about a day in the life of Ukrainian soldiers, volunteers, social service workers and ordinary Ukrainian citizens in the combat zone. The heroes live their everyday lives, doing their usual things. As a result, we have a historical chronicle that will shape our understanding of the present in years to come.

A cycle of ten documentary-fiction adaptations of works by Ukrainian poets and writers who went to war.

Art in the Land of War is a series consisting of 25 short stories about Ukrainian artists – painters, musicians, sculptors, and writers, who did not leave Ukraine during the war.
In the first months of the war, they all changed their social status somewhat. Some are internally displaced, others joined the Territorial Defense force, help as civilian volunteers, or take cover in bomb shelters. Following their everyday life and creative process, the project tries to find an answer to the central question: what is the place of art and the artist in the country at war?
The series is there to ask each of them to tell what keeps them going and makes them return to art. These conversations are a research and a reflection simultaneously: how to find time for an introspection and meditation, when you’re in the middle of an endless informational and emotional storm during the war.

During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the spring of 2022, Russian troops occupied the suburbs of the capital for more than a month. This film is dedicated to the educators of the Kyiv region, who did not despair even under shelling, enemy control, and the constant threat to their lives. The viewer will travel through the educational institutions of Hostomel, Irpin, Bucha and Vorzel, to become acquainted with those, who hold, and will be holding in their hands the future of our country.

This film plays out in Ukraine on a single day: March 14, 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War. In the last few weeks, intense warfare has surreally mixed places and people and created a post-apocalyptic dimension revealing new qualities and roles. Thousands of Kyivans have moved to live in subway stations. The capital city’s previously calm suburbs have been transformed into battle zones of destruction and looting by Russian occupiers. People no longer live according to “workdays” or “weekends,” counting instead the number of days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine… The film presents this day in the lives of a pop music star, video engineer, historian, art restorer, polar researcher, and pensioner, who were all forced to radically change their lives.

Film series built from the footage of video calls with the soldiers who were under encirclement at “Azovstal” in Mariupol. Since the beginning of the siege, the director has been having conversations with the “Azov” regiment fighters, thus creating their portraits. The most known episode is “Last Day At Azovstal” made in cooperation with soldier Dmytro «Orest» Kozatskyy.

Personal videos from the phones, camcorders, cameras and GoPros of Ukrainian soldiers are woven into a surreal journey to the front line of the war with Russia. The film shows a bizarre world whose laws are quite different from what we are used to. The behavior is different, the relationships unfold differently and the humour takes on different notes. The heroes wake up and fall asleep, rejoice and cry, always feeling that the recording may end at any moment.

In 2014 Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine turns hot. An engineer, actor, soccer coach and florist volunteer to fight on the front line. Unaware of the pivotal role they will play in the war, they discover the meaning of true leadership.

The film tells about The First Company – the first hundred volunteers, who went to defend Ukraine at the front after the beginning of the Russian military aggression in Donbas.
The film won the Audience Award of the Docudays UA 2018 IFF and the best documentary film of the Brukivka IFF 2019.

This is a film about the people and a city lost in time and space. It’s about the speed at which life can change and about things that remain constant no matter what.
The film is based on the events that occurred after the shelling of the district of Skhidniy in the city of Mariupol on January 24, 2015. Shelling was carried our by prorussian militants from “GRAD” multiple launch rocket systems.

Unique documentary footage and real-life stories of the sailors, pilots, troopers and marines who stood off the occupants is to answer the question “Why did we give up Crimea?” to one part of the audience as well as to make another part think of peninsula’s future. It’s for the first time since the events in Crimea took place that both Ukrainian and international audience will have a chance to look in the eyes of the people who were ready to defend territorial integrity of their fatherland under complicated circumstances till the end and keep doing it these days. The film also gives an insight into what was happening inside the surrounded military bases and at the blocked warships. The film team is looking at the historic developments in Crimea through the life stories of Ukrainian servicemen who remained loyal to their oath. “Crimea.As It Was” narrates highest human values: honor, loyalty to oath and courage.

Spring 2014. Ukraine is attacked by Russian troops. The first to meet the enemy was not the military personnel, but civilians from the Maidan – volunteers. Who are they? What were their ideals and values, why did they exchange their peaceful civilian life for hard military experience?

The search for a government soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv, Ukraine takes biology student-protester Sashko to the front lines of Russia’s war with Ukraine. There he meets Ivan, a Ukrainian volunteer warfighter harbouring a secret that could undermine a fragile cease-fire and reignite the revolution.

The unfolding canvas of dramatic events of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian War – from the spontaneous attempt to seize the presidential administration building on December 1, 2013, to the bloody fighting in the ruins of Donetsk airport in autumn 2014. There are no false or simulated shots in the film: the film resembles an alloy in which the depiction of dramatic events flows into understanding the ways of creating a new society, and the artistic experience of fixed documentary reality for the viewer is more powerful and influential than a feature film.

The series of documentaries about the events that took place on Euromaidan during the Revolution of Dignity. The series premiered on 1+1 TV channel on April 3, 2014, to mark the fortieth anniversary of those killed in the confrontation on Instytutska Street in Kyiv. In late spring and early summer, the films began to be presented in the United States, and what they saw on the screen shocked viewers who did not have access to Ukrainian media.