Dovzhenko Centre's Top 100 Ukrainian Films
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- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- DirectorMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiStarsHryhoriy FesenkoYana NovikovaRosa BabiyA deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsBorislav BrondukovDaniil IlchenkoYekaterina MateykThe Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergei PopovOlga AntonovaGalina ZakhurdaevaIn the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsOleg YankovskiyLyudmila GurchenkoOleg TabakovOn the eve of his fortieth birthday, a man realizes nothing he has achieved in his life has amounted to very much.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLarisa KadochnikovaIvan MikolaychukBogdan StupkaColourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsZinaida SharkoOleg VladimirskyYuriy KayurovA single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.
- DirectorIvan MikolaychukStarsLyubov PolishchukIvan MikolaychukLes SerdyukThe small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukLidiya BelozyorovaFyodor StrigunA Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsNina RuslanovaVladimir VysotskiyKira MuratovaA maid works for the estranged wife of a geologist who once visited her village and whom she loves.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
- DirectorMikhail KaufmanIn Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
- DirectorViktor IvanovStarsOleg BorisovMargarita KrinitsynaNikolay YakovchenkoMadcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.
- StarsZinoviy GerdtEvgeniy PapernyyGeorgiy KishkoAn old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsNikolai NademskySemyon SvashenkoAleksandr PodorozhnyyAn old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- DirectorAntonio LukichStarsAndriy LidagovskiyIrma VitovskaIryna OstrovskaA sound engineer tries to record the song of a rare bird that dwells in the Ukrainian mountains.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsDmitri MilyutenkoLarisa KadochnikovaFeodosiya LitvinenkoThe old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsViktor NemetsVladimir GolovinAleksey VertkovA few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
- DirectorYuriy HrytsynaWhat is self-organization? How is democracy created? Who decides a punishment? Where are the center and the periphery of the revolution? Where does it start and where does it end? A brief power vacuum turns into the moment of greatest potentiality, when the beliefs of the past and the strategies for the future are discussed. The film tries to look at the mundane spaces of the city, and to understand whether the historical and revolutionary uncertainty is still there.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsAnatoliy SokolovskiyViktor MalyarevichNikolay OleynikThe story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.
- DirectorMykola ShpykovskyiStarsFedir HamaliiDmitriy KapkaLuka LyashenkoA demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his son was right; for the sake of building a new world, the old laws of the universe should be broken.
- DirectorAbram RoomStarsDmitri DorlyakOlga ZhiznevaYuri YuryevThe characters debate the role of free love and free will within the Soviet social and political economy.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- DirectorDziga VertovHow the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsNatalya UzhviyNina AlisovaElena TyapkinaA bitter anti-Nazi film, "The Rainbow" details the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
- DirectorIvan KavaleridzeStarsIvan TverdokhlebPolina NyatkoAleksandr SerdyukCaucasian war goes, squires began to release the serfs, a merchant layer ripens. The rich are rich, the poor are poor. But here already Marks writes the works and the first agitators-revolutionaries appeared at the front. Prometheus cheered up and prepares to tear hateful bonds.
- DirectorMykola ShpykovskyiStarsDora Feller-SpikovskayaDimitry KakaLuka LyashenkoAn opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
- DirectorFeliks SobolevHow independent are we in our judgments? How do other people influence us? Being like everyone else is a natural desire of a child. He often succumbs to suggestion and passes out someone else's opinion for his own. But for an adult, this is a loss of personality, adaptability, conformism, which forms the psychology of a slave.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBoris KhmelnitskiyLarisa KadochnikovaYefim FridmanPiotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBogdan StupkaLyudmila EfimenkoNikita DzhigurdaA Prayer for Hetman Mazepa unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsMariya VasyanovychOlexandr VasyanovychMaria, aged 82, and her sick son Sashko live out their days in a remote province. Sashko went blind because of serious illness. He's afraid that his mother is dying, but Maria desperately clings to life as she realizes that no one will take care of her son. They may seem to be acting irrationally, but they are heroically unwilling to surrender. Maria buys a calf, Sashko starts to build a tractor, groping his way in the darkness.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukStarsSerhiy StepanskyViktor ZhdanovKhrystyna DeylykAfter several strange coincidences, Lukas, translator, who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is confronted with a totally new universe, in which life seems to be completely detached from any kind of structure. Despite his initial animosity, Lukas gets more and more fascinated by Vova as well as by his daughter Marushka - and finally starts his own quest for a long ago lost happiness.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoA mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.
- DirectorSergey BukovskyStarsPolina Bel'skaiaMaryna ChaikaMariia Egorycheva-GlagolevaSurvivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
- DirectorLeonid LukovStarsAleksandr ChistyakovIvan ChuvelyovDaniil VvedenskiyOnce a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father, thirty years of bending a back on the owner of mine. And when a father was driven out from work, Ostap understood that it is senseless to blame in the troubles only master.
- DirectorPyotr TodorovskiyStarsNikolay BurlyaevNatalya AndreychenkoInna ChurikovaThis melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding...
- DirectorAbram NaroditskyNikolai RasheyevStarsValeriy ZolotukhinYuri SmirnovNatalya DmitriyevaPrivate Bumbarash is considered dead after air balloon scouting incident gone awry. When he, alive and well, returns home, he has to stay alive and regain the girl he loves in the harsh yet tragicomic circumstances of Russian Civil War.
- DirectorOstap KostyukThe snow is starting to melt and spring has announced its arrival. Three Carpathian shepherds, just like their fathers and grandfathers before them, set off with their flock into the mountains on a lonely journey lasting several months.
- DirectorMarlen KhutsievFeliks MironerStarsNina IvanovaNikolay RybnikovVladimir GulyaevA newly appointed Russian literature teacher develops a strong connection with one of her flagging students.
- DirectorGeorgiy StabovoyStarsIvan ZamychkovskySergei MininValeriy GakkebushDuring the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- DirectorIgor MinaievStarsEvgeniya DobrovolskayaMaksim KiselyovNikolai TokarSerguei, young guardian, falls in love with the sensual Nadia while she is stopped by the militia. They meet again a month later, Nadia leads the shy Sergei to her home and teaches her love. The seasons pass, Serguei is more and more in love and Nadia does not get tired.
- DirectorIvan KavaleridzeStarsAleksandr SerdyukDaniil AntonovichIvan MaryanenkoAbout the struggle of the Ukrainian poor against the Polish gentry and local feudal lords in the XVIII century.
- DirectorVladimir ShevchenkoThe first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort.
- DirectorDavid CherkasskiyStarsValeriy BessarabArmen DzhigarkhanyanViktor AndrienkoCartoon adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous adventure novel.
- DirectorYevgeni GolubenkoKira MuratovaStarsNikolai ShatokhinIrina KovalenkoNatalya RallevaAn ordinary post-Soviet policeman finds a baby in the garden and wants to adopt it; this 'adventure' turns his life upside down. After the 'shock therapy' of The Asthenic Syndrome.
- DirectorStepan KovalStarsYevgeniy ShakhRuslana PisankaInna KapinosA morning tram over-occupied with passengers, but more and more people are trying to get in there.
- DirectorLeonid OsykaStarsTanya MalyshAntonina LeftiyZoya NedbayShort poetic parable of the beginning of human life. A little girl was playing on the beach, and the sea stretched out in front of her as a free poetic element of life. And on the beach, there was adult life, everyday life, prose.
- DirectorNatalya AndreychenkoStarsIrina TsymbalDenis KarasyovTatyana ShuranIndustrial Soviet town in 1970s suffering from cholera epidemic. Zina Shamarina nicknamed Shamara is a rebel-spirited woman who lives in factory dormitory and is desperately in love with Ustin, the man who was one of the bunch that raped her years ago and then married her only to avoid prosecution. When Ustin commences affair with the new girl in town, Shamara is challenged to regain herself and her place in this community.
- DirectorIvan MikolaychukStarsPyotr MikhnevichGregory HladyGalina SulimaThe Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia--maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak, using the services of "Intourist", goes to his land, where he was once happy.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukA tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
- DirectorFeliks SobolevStarsB. DrozhinVladimir RaykovIgor ShelushkovHas the capacity of the human brain already been exhausted due to information overload? Sobolev posed this question at the end of the 1960s after a hidden camera recorded the results of a university entrance exam. The director, renowned for his belief in the endless possibilities of humanity, created a participatory documentary in which he filmed experiments with people with phenomenal abilities under the guidance of professors from the Academy of Sciences. Scientific analysis of the nature of hypnosis, telepathy, and dermo-optical perception reveals potential avenues to expanding the frontiers of human knowledge.
- DirectorGeorgi TasinStarsHeiri EmirzadeNikolay KutuzovAlik LitoveckyThe psychological torture of a woman ,whose revolutionary husband has fled the city, and who has been left secret documents to guard, during the advance of the White Army in the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution.
- DirectorMark DonskoyStarsVera DonskayaYuri DedovichIvan TverdokhlebAn adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in the 1830s, the film follows two lovers on the run - a girl forced into marriage and her boyfriend, a serf who's being sought by the authorities - as they try to make their way to freedom.
- DirectorNariman AlievStarsAkhtem SeitablaevRemzi BilyalovDariya BarikhashviliA father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
- DirectorNikolai LitusAleksei MishurinStarsNadezhda RumyantsevaAndrei SovaAleksey KozhevnikovThanks to her kindness and optimism, a young girl turns a neglected gas station into a significant landmark.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsOleg YankovskiyAleksandr AbdulovOleg MenshikovGunners spent the night in the small village. Officers are invited to tea by the local landowner. During solemn tea drinking of the Lieutenant Ryabovich who got lost in the dark in rooms of the old house, the stranger unexpectedly kissed.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergey MakovetskiyLeonid KushnirZhan DanielA man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
- DirectorAndrei ZagdanskyStarsSergey YurskiyMax AmannGaleazzo CianoUsing extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.
- DirectorMikhail BelikovStarsSergey ShakurovTatyana KochemasovaStanislav Stankevich1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
- DirectorLeonid BoykoVyacheslav KrishtofovichViacheslav KryshtofovychStarsTetyana Kryvytska Stang LundAleksandr LazarevAnzhelika NevolinaTolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.
- DirectorArtur VojtetskyStarsMayya BulgakovaVladimir DorofeyevAndryusha MakinAn intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch.
- DirectorAndriy DonchykStarsPyotr BenyukTaras DenisenkoAleksey GorbunovOne of the first non-state funded films of an independent Ukraine, this study of a Ukrainian soldier dealing with the traditional abuse handed out to new recruits in the Soviet army is based on the real-life experiences of director Andrii Donchyk and writer Yurii Andrukhovych.
- DirectorKaren GevorkyanStarsBayarta DambayevAleksandr SasykovDoskhan ZholzhaksynovA small group of seal hunters, three adults and a boy, lost their way in fog and find themselves trapped in the middle of the sea.
- DirectorIhor StrembitskyiWayfarers is a series of impressionistic documentary portraits of people in a senior citizen's home and in a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv.
- DirectorAleksandr MuratovKira MuratovaStarsDmitri MilyutenkoOleg FanderaLyubov KalyuzhnayaA story about a leader in Communist era, who happens to be so workaholic yet also so lonely.
- DirectorStanislav BytiutskyiThis is a story about people in love with cinema, and a country going through its most difficult times. A group of friends, who met sometime ago in a movie theatre, get together to see one of them off to Belgrade. So their journey begins: from personal memories to the remembrance of their country, out of a small dark room to the mystery of Kiev's night. Their last stop - the farewell party where reality and cinema once again become a single whole.
- DirectorAnatolii SyrykhStarsSergei ParajanovIn November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. The tired, offended director of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" forbids Syrykh to film him. He agrees only to speak, recalling the most unpleasant moments of his life.
- DirectorGeorgi TasinStarsAmvrosi BuchmaMaria DyusimeterKarl TomskiSet in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- DirectorOles SaninStarsViktoria SpesivtsevaAndrij BilousNazl SejtablaevaMamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "
- DirectorEvgeniy SivokonAn elderly man thinks of his childhood and his youth.
- DirectorRoman BalayanStarsMikhail GolubovichOleg TabakovYelena KhrolSerf farmer Thomas is assigned to guard the forest. Foma has to catch the same serfs, like himself, who came to the forest without the permission of the master to hunt or chop firewood. In the village he is disliked and nicknamed "Biryuk" for his sullen and unsociable character. In fact, Thomas is a kind, conscientious man, lives together with his young daughter Ulita simply and strictly.
- DirectorAlina GorlovaStarsOksana YakubovaWhat is left backstage of the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peaceful life, and where does the war stop?
- DirectorNadia ParfanFor many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that "the heating comes first - and only then do we sing!". The rehearsal schedule must be organized around the "heating season". As the collective are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?
- DirectorAnatolii KarasViktor ShkurinThe July Storms is a dilogy about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the dilogy, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners' strikes in Donetsk, in 1989 and 1990, which were unprecedented in scale. Several hundred thousand miners took part in these historical strikes. The events themselves became a significant factor in the history of the collapse of the Soviet communist system. While recording the unfolding of the strike and the miners' speeches on the square in Donetsk, the film's creators also observe the miners' miserable living conditions and hard working conditions at the Lidiyevka mine.
- DirectorAnatolii KarasViktor ShkurinThe second film of The July Storms duology starts with an accident at the Pochenkov Mine in February 1990, which caused the death of 13 miners. Since the summer protests, the real situation in the mines hardly changed; this lead to the second wave of miners' protests in 1990-91. This time, the miners' slogans include political demands, mentioning the decommunization of power and Ukraine's independence. The miners' representatives meet the communist officials, in particular with Stanislav Hubenko, the last First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Nikolay Ryzhkov, the head of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The miners meet the August coup and the final disintegration of the country of the Soviets in strike committees.
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsMakar TikhomirovVyacheslav DovzhenkoAndrey IsaenkoIt is a story of a several-week-long military duty in September 2014. A group of military volunteers comes to Donetsk Airport for the first time - the Airport has been held by Ukrainians for more than four months of war.
- DirectorOleh SentsovStarsZhanna BiryukAlexander FedotovVladislav ZhukThe boy's name is Alex, but in the world of gamers where he spends most of his time, he is known as Koss. The enormous amount of time he spends at the computer screen starts to pay off: in the games' clubs in his small Ukrainian village, he is the undisputed king of the shooting game Quake, admired by the 'noobs' - the younger and less experienced players he defeats digitally. But there is also a different side. The endless games are getting in the way of his study at technical college, to the great dismay of his single mother. She sees her son growing up into a good-for-nothing, just like his absent father. In a realistic style, filmed at a real game tournament with real gamers in the leading roles, debuting director Oleg Sentsov shows the rise of 'Koss'. Because Alex has plans: he's going to be the greatest and that will solve everything. Step-by-step, he approaches his goal: to be world champion. But will success bring him what he wants? And what if he doesn't win?
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoCossacks are trying rescue their captured friend from the Arabs.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoA group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoCossacks rescue the brides from the pirates.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoCossacks engage in confrontation with a bunch of raiders in order to return stolen salt supplies to the local market.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoThe story of how three friends were very fond of physical education.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoStarsEduard NazarovCossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoIn search of shoe for the beloved a cossack gets on a shabbash to the forest devils that want to steal his soul. True friends rescue a cossack ingeniously.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoCossacks travel throughout Europe to find a proper fuel for the friendly aliens that have crash on them.
- DirectorVladimir DakhnoTadeush PavlenkoThe Canadian hockey command arrives on Ukraine, to conduct a match with cossacks.
- DirectorVadym IlkovStarsAnatoliy BelovMy father is my mother's brother is a portrait of one family. It moves between the social bottom and the depths of bohemian life. The artist and singer Tolik, his sister Anya and his niece Katya are struggling through the daily life filled with love, soul searching, loneliness and illness.
- DirectorArkadiy NepytaliukStarsDmytro HomyakNina NabokaZakharii NovytskyA grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter - three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their hard, lonely and miserable lives have become closely intertwined with love and hate playing a part in their own personal circumstances. A trip to visit the grandmother living in the small, God-forsaken and almost abandoned village of Pryputni becomes a turning point. In just one day, filled with strange and almost tragic events, the women are forced to re-evaluate their lives and break out of the vicious circle of daily routine, dull habits and fusty old ideas. A new and fresh outlook beckons.
- DirectorAleksandr IgnatushaStarsAleksandr MironovLiga GarnakaAnatoliy DyachenkoYuras, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of the first president, who promises Ukrainians the right to a dignified life, and young people in clubs "dance non-Moscow, independent rock 'n' roll". The young man is trying to fit into a new picture of the world, even starting a relationship with a Latvian girl. The smell of freedom and international friendship wafts through the air. Dreamy and full of hope for a new life, Yuras is returned to earth by the executive service of the police, which acts as a long-standing and well-established repressive mechanism.
- DirectorLeonid PavlovskyStarsBoris BarskyGeorgiy Deliev
- DirectorSergey BukovskyStarsValentin SilvestrovThe documentary film dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov. It is an observation, a confession and, most of all, a story of great talent set against the backdrop of uncertain times.
- DirectorGrigori Gritscher-TscherikowerStarsIvan KavebergAnna GorichevaD. CantorMothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.
- DirectorVladimir SavelevStarsYossi PollakStefaniya StanyutaMargarita VishnyakovaBased on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.