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- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterAfter 1986, a restricted zone was erected at a radius of 30km around Chernobyl. More than 100.000 people have been evacuated from there, but some have remained or returned. "Pripyat" follows four protagonists who live or work in this zone.
- DirectorMaryann DeLeoStarsWilliam NovickAdi RocheThis Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster who have been born with a deteriorated heart condition.
- DirectorThomas JohnsonStarsTim BirkettHans BlixMikhail GorbachevDocumentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.
- It was the worst nuclear disaster in history and it took place in a small town in Ukraine called Chernobyl. The area surrounding the town has been sealed for 25 years. Join us as we walk through fields of the exclusion zone, explore the abandoned town of Pripyat and meet the people that live illegally inside the radioactive sector. Discover one of a kind interviews with operators, liquidator and safety inspectors as we give you the complete picture that the government doesn't want you to see. Experience rare historic footage of the disaster just discovered in Ukrainian archives and walk within four-hundred meters of one of the most dangerous buildings on earth. This is the story of Chernobyl that you haven't heard before.
- DirectorTaras KhymychStarsOleksandra LiutaMykola BerezaFor centuries, the peoples of Transcarpathia were isolated by politics, geography, and poverty. Following WW1, neighboring states eyed Transcarpathia's strategic and material potential, and the region experienced a cultural renaissance. In 1939, as Europe prepared for war, the battle for area control escalated. Against a swell of political and military interventions, the republic of Carpatho-Ukraine was born, sowing the seeds for an independent Ukraine.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaA look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
- DirectorAnne BogartHolly MorrisAn affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there - semi-officially, for years.
- DirectorArmin KuraszStarsJacek PodemskiThe document shows Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 30 years after the nuclear power plant failure. Although there are a lot of documentary films about that disaster, none of them pay attention to how the tragedy affected the lives of ordinary people - displaced residents of Pripyat. The filmmakers managed to get to the direct witnesses of the events from the past and confront their memories of working in a dynamic power plant and living in a vibrant Pripyat with the present image of the wild and mysterious Exclusion Zone.
- DirectorAriadna OchrymovychThe Richest Soil. The Best Harvest. The Biggest Lie. The Best Kept Secret. Millions Perished.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsLidia MyroshnychenkoVira KonykA 95-year-old lady recalls her troubled youth while baking bread: we discover secrets of her life about surviving the Europe's largest famine, Holodomor.
- DirectorChad GraciaStarsAndrei AlexandrovichFedor AlexandrovichIgor AlexandrovichA gripping, award-winning documentary about an irradiated Ukrainian artist's search for the truth about Chernobyl and his prescient and powerful warnings about Putin's plans for a coming Russian invasion.
- DirectorRoman BondarchukA tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
- DirectorEvgeny AfineevskyStarsHis Beatitude SviatoslavSaid IsmagilovBishop AgapitA 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. Yanukovich.
- DirectorMike BaudoncqStarsPhyllis YordanThree decades on from the disaster, Chernobyl shows signs of life again.
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinStarsYuriy ChmelykVolodymyr DubovyiMykola LytvynenkoA story of the officers, soldiers and seamen who have not betrayed their oath of loyalty to the people of Ukraine during the takeover of Crimea. This is a film about a military honor, in the midst of undeclared war.
- DirectorRicardo Marquina MontañanaCONTEXT Pripyat (Ukraine) is a city, built near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for the employees and their families. Named as the 'city of children', Pripyat was a model of the Soviet city, full of life and with a promising future, which was interrupted by the explosion at the nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986. After the accident, which was recognized as the largest nuclear accident in the history, so called temporary evacuation was carried out. It prolongs until today. There are many documents about Chernobyl and its human and environmental disaster. However, none of the audiovisual projects bring us closer to the city, which survived the catastrophe and does not show how its residents went through it. It is important to show what was there, to understand the drama, that the evacuees came through. Eventually, people found themselves expelled and forgotten by the Soviet Union and were left on their own in the country that shortly after the incident went bankrupt. 'Memories from Chernobyl' is a documentary project, which will recreate the city of Pripyat before the accident. Through the testimonies of different characters we will know what was the city, which represented the pride of the Soviet Union in its world struggle for power in the field of nuclear energy.
- DirectorSieva DiamantakosStarsKonstantinAlina LizunovaIllya MachekhinPostcards from Ukraine is a documentary dealing with the crisis in Ukraine. After traveling all over Ukraine, Sieva, the director, chose to focus on 5 young characters whose lives have been deeply affected by the events happening in Ukraine. Each of the five characters come from various cities and social background's giving the viewer a sense of how individually these people react to the very important decisions they are faced with. The documentary reports events, such as the referendum for the independence of Donbas region and the national presidential elections, which where all factors that lead to the turmoil in Ukraine. And then there is the influence of mass propaganda that completes the context in which the five characters move. From the suburbs of Donetsk, to the separatists camps in Lugansk, to the block posts in Mariupol and Crimea, from the rich estates of the oligarchs in Kharkhiv to the still occupied Maidan Square in Kyiv, Postcards from Ukraine aims to represent a cross-section of the new generation of Ukraine; their values, their dreams and the role they play in this big crisis written by the elites.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyRussian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisOles SaninBREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsOleg AfanasyevAlexandra RyabichkinaJarikTHE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.
- DirectorAskold KurovStarsOleh SentsovVladimir PutinVictor YanukovichA documentary about Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea and sentenced to 20 years in prison on contrived charges.
- DirectorAnastasiia StarozhitskaMariia StarozhitskaThe story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
- DirectorAndrew TkachStarsNatalia Payne'Hunger for Truth' shows the power of truth telling in the face of disinformation. The feature length documentary tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin's man made famine was ravaging Ukraine. The film interweaves Clyman's truth telling trip during the 1930's with today's conflict in eastern Ukraine, focusing on a forgotten prisoner of war.
- DirectorAlexandra WestmeierA prestigious but never-completed Soviet nuclear power station in Crimea now stands in ruins, but several outsiders have found their salvation in this desolate place.
- DirectorAmadeusz KocanStarsMaciej BogaczykKrystian MachnikThe documentary was created during a charity expedition that was organized to help "samosely". It presents the life of people who never accepted the enforced evacuation, that was ordered after the Chernobyl disaster. They live on a poisoned ground despite all the restrictions and hardships.
- DirectorOlya SchechterA story of a sniper fighting for the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinA short form documentary about five ordinary Ukrainians who were taken hostage in occupied Luhansk.
- DirectorAmadeusz KocanStarsMaciej BogaczykKrystian Machnik"The last people of Chernobyl 2" tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Shows the daily struggles and shares their stories.
- DirectorAmadeusz KocanStarsMaciej BogaczykTomasz KnapikKrystian MachnikThis documentary tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Shows their daily struggles and lets them share their stories.
- DirectorVolodymyr MulaStarsJohnny BucykJeff ChychrunKen DaneykoThe Untold Story of Hockey Legends
- DirectorAmadeusz KocanStarsMaciej BogaczykKrystian MachnikMiroslaw UttaSamosely are the people who did not come to terms with the forced evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster. They returned to their homes to live on the land of their fathers.
- DirectorDaniel SmithLaura StevensStarsMatt FreiVolodymyr ZelenskyyAnna ReidThe life of Volodymyr Zelenskyy from law student to actor-comedian to President of Ukraine to wartime hero refusing to leave the country after the Russian invasion.
- DirectorElliott CrawfordJohn TaylorStarsDima ThedobassDocumentary focusing on the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent downing of civilian airliner MH17. With access to both Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, the film offers a unique insight into this war on Europe's doorstep.