Birthmark (2020), Dir Maria Shevchenko
When Maria was two years old her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Maria travelled to occupied Crimea in search of answers to crucial questions - could her mother have a more bearable life, how would this be realised, why has the illness become a stigma and how can they be together. Birthmark documents Maria’s physical and metaphysical journey in search of her mother.
The Wonderful Years (2018), Dir Svitlana Shymko & Galina Yarmanova
The Wonderful Years explores the lives of queer Ukrainian women in the late Soviet Union. It is based on archive video materials and interview excerpts from research projects on LGBT history.
FOMO (2019) Dir Vlad Krasinskyi
A young journalist shoots Instagram stories - political events in the daytime, bars and parties at night. His positioning is critical at all times.
Save me, Doctor! (2020) Dir Dmytro Hreshko
Save me, doctor! captures the atmosphere of the ambulance brigade working during the New Year holidays in Kyiv. The three main characters are employees of the brigade; a doctor, a paramedic and a driver. We travel with them and experience the challenges and patients they face during the working day.
Broken Culture (2020) Dir Yehor Kadomtsev
In the 1990s Kyiv was captured by a new western culture - breakdancing. Yuriy Savchenko, or as everyone called him at the time Fluus, was the one who "brought breakdancing to Ukraine." This is a story about the fate of a person who changed the cultural landscape of Ukraine, but still lives the dream of dance.
Thus They Will Sing (2020) Dir Anna Yutchenko & Diana Horban
Thus they will sing is a film collage that interweaves human experiences and soromitski (shaming) songs into the flow of modern life. Soromitski are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (parties), and feasts. Although they were quite scandalous to sing in everyday life, they are observations on the behaviour patterns of men and women. The tradition of creating spivankas still exists. Ostap Bohoslovets from Nadvirna town re-analyses the modern world of youth in his own spivankas.