Content from Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema

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.

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

Lack of self-confidence is stopping Viktor from entering the local House of Culture, where the speed dates are to be conducted. However, feeling all the severity of loneliness, he decides to make this step. His fear comes true - every date turns trial to him. Every date exсept one.

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.

Even despite the terrible events associated with Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, people continue to live showing their fortitude - For example, Kharkiv Music Fest did happen.

Serhii, a young man who fills his days with volunteer work, loses contact with his mother living in occupied territory. When his mother finally decides to evacuate, he learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.

Referring to the Miles Brothers' 1906 titles "A Trip Down Market Street" and "A Trip Down Market Street After the Fire," set in San Francisco before and after a major earthquake, a virtual camera reimagines Market Street of the fictional San Fierro in the classic GTA: San Andreas (2004), imagining a life where disaster is impossible — until a missile attack arrives.

A family celebrates the birthday of their son. After a warm birthday greeting, their usual feast takes place.

For the first time in several years, a father with his son decided to have dinner together. Will they be able to find a common language?

Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed.

This story is about a father and son who have different views on the future and different ideas about life.

Messenger Tioma lives happy life in the world of his interests. Meanwhile, war rages in the East of his country. War seems illusional like fantasy retold by the media. Until, one day, it reaches Tioma in the form of refugee boy, who steals his bicycle.

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.

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.

Based on diaries and photographs found in the houses destroyed during the Russian war against Ukraine, the film captures the stories of Mariupol, including that of the director’s family. It centers on the value of freedom and human life itself over the nonsensical statements repeated by totalitarian regimes, as witnessed throughout the history of the Azovstal plant.

From the Ancient Greek αμφίβολος (amphibolos) — ambiguous, deceptive; λιτος (lithos) — stone. A poetic tale in which the main character is a stone whose existence stretches beyond human time. As a silent witness to the apocalypse, it appears in the final dream of a man searching for salvation. The stone opens a path toward the unknown, where the boundary between an end and a beginning fades.

Vanya, his mother, and his sister move into an old apartment that they inherited. With their arrival, something disappears from the apartment forever, but something else appears that will last forever. Left alone at home, Vanya meets his grandfather, whom he never knew.

The boy is hiding from being drafted into the army with his grandfather in the village. He does not tolerate violence and does not want to become a target for people he does not know. But suddenly a different view of the war occurs to him. You need to decide quickly.

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.

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.