Country: Ukraine

Direction Mstyslav Chernov

Synopsis As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Vladimir Mijailovich Artobolevski · Hans Isenmann · Dina Pronicheva

Synopsis Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.

Direction Evgeny Afineevsky

Synopsis A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F....

Direction Natalya Vorozhbit

Cast Zoya Baranovskaya · Oksana Cherkashyna · Vladimir Gurin · Maryna Klimova

Synopsis Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on....

Direction Maryna Gorbach

Cast Oksana Cherkashyna · Evgeniy Efremov · Sergey Shadrin · Artur Aramyan

Synopsis The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village...

Direction Iryna Tsilyk

Cast Ganna Gladka · Stanislav Gladky · Anastasiia Trofymchuk · Myroslava Trofymchuk

Synopsis Exquisitely shot and bold in its metastorytelling approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives under siege in Ukraine. Eldest...

Direction Miroslav Slaboshpitsky

Cast Grigoriy Fesenko · Yana Novikova · Rosa Babiy · Alexander Dsiadevich

Synopsis Somewhere in Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. Alone in this new and unfamiliar place, he must find his way through the school's hierarchy. Sergey quickly...

Direction Kitty Green

Synopsis Ukraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has stirred up a press frenzy across Europe. Outraged by the world's image of Ukrainian women as either brides for sale or commodities of sex...

Direction Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk

Cast Oleksandr Yatsentyuk · Stanislav Potiak · Solomiya Kyrylova · Myroslav Makoviychuk

Synopsis Pamfir wants to be a decent family man. Challenged by the circumstances, he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.

Direction Nariman Aliev

Cast Akhtem Seitablaev · Remzi Bilyalov · Veronika Lukyanenko · Viktor Zhdanov

Synopsis A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.

Direction Iara Lee

Synopsis Stalking Chernobyl, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world's most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned...

Direction Kateryna Gornostai

Cast Maria Fedorchenko · Yana Isaienko · Oleksandr Ivanov · Arsenii Markov

Synopsis A radical, authentic, and sensitive insight into the unsettling feeling of being young and an inside perspective on Ukrainian youth.

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Synopsis A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.

Direction Marcus Lenz

Cast Yelizar Nazarenko · Udo Samel · Maria Bruni · Nina Kastorf

Direction Valentyn Vasyanovych

Cast Andriy Rymaruk · Liudmyla Bileka · Vasyl Antoniak

Synopsis Eastern Ukraine, in the nearest future. A desert unsuitable for human habitation. Sergey, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, is having trouble adapting to his new reality: a life in...

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Viktor Nemets · Vlad Ivanov · Olga Shuvalova · Vladimir Golovin

Synopsis Truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) leaves his home town with a load of goods, but he is forced to take a wrong turning on the motorway, and finds himself in...

Direction Sergey Mokritskiy

Cast Yuliya Peresild · Yevgeni Tsyganov · Joan Blackham · Anatoliy Kot

Synopsis The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a...

Direction Zaza Urushadze

Cast Natalia Ryumina · Regimantas Adomaitis · Vaiva Mainelyte · Juozas Budraitis

Synopsis Anton explores how the universal bonds of childhood friendship are stronger than the prejudices of an adult world torn by hatred and revenge in the wake of the First World...

Direction Dekel Berenson

Cast Svetlana Barandich · Anastasia Vyazovskaya · Eric R. Gilliatt · Alina Chornogub

Synopsis Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured by a radio advertisement, she goes to party with a group of...

Direction Stepan Koval