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6.7

90%

donbass war

Drama

Natalya Vorozhbit Director

Yuliya Matrosova as The Grandmother

Zoya Baranovska as The Woman Driver

Anastasia Parshina as Young girl's friend #2

Maryna Klimova as Yuliya

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. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.

Cerise

2015

French

5.5

♡ 3

Jérôme Enrico Director

Jonathan Zaccaï as Fred

Mykola Mateshko as Mikita

Olivia Côte as Pascale

Emilia Radeva as Tania

Cerise is fourteen years old but she looks twenty. Cerise grew up on the outskirts, but now she's exiled to Ukraine. Cerise wears excessive amounts of makeup, but she still has a little girl's dreams. Cerise doesn't know her father, even though she's going to have to live with him. Cerise has only ever thought about herself and now she finds herself in the middle of a revolution.

Bitter Harvest

2017

5.9

♡ 18

15%

George Mendeluk Director

Terence Stamp as Ivan

Malcolm Freeman as Molotov

Edward Akrout as Professor Temchuck

Kane Ogieva as Willard

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.

The Wild Fields

2018

7.1

♡ 4

Adventure

based on novel or book

Yaroslav Lodygin Director

Igor Portyanko as

Yuriy Karabak as Arkadiy

Pavel Makarchenko as Farmer

Roman Halaimov as Marlen

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.

This Rain Will Never Stop

2020

7.0

♡ 1

syrian civil war

Alina Gorlova Director

This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.

Rhino

2021

6.6

♡ 4

80%

husband wife relationship

Crime

criminal

criminal organization

Drama

male friendship

ukrainian village

Oleh Sentsov Director

Yaroslav Bezkorovayny as Girl's Father

Sergei Smeyan as Rhino's Father

Vladislav Simanko as Solodkyi

Georgiy Povolotskiy as Tucha

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Maidan

2014

6.6

♡ 2

100%

Sergey Loznitsa Director

A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that took place in Kyiv in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.

Ukraine: The People's Fight

2023

6.2

♡ 7

2020s

Documentary

Olly Lambert Director

Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine’s southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. The film follows “Hummer”, an experienced military commander who now finds himself a chaperone to completely inexperienced forces on the frontline.

Crazy Wedding

2018

6.1

♡ 4

Vladyslav Klimchuk Director

Aleksandr Begma as Ihorchyk

Irina Melnik as Ihorchyk's mother

E. Rubashkina as Ulyana

Viktor Rozovyy as Young man 1

Vasyl Serediuk - head of the local Museum - having sent his daughter Kateryna to a french university, never expected the outcome: a month ago she informed him that she is getting married to a French heart surgeon François. Since then Vasyl’s proud statement spread throughout the whole region: “The Serediuks have made their European choice!". How huge was his surprise when he saw that the cherished European future son-in-law is a Frenchman of African origin. Organizing a wedding so that it never happens seems like a brilliant idea. But when true love stands in the way, the success of such plan is not a given.

Crazy Wedding 3

2021

4.5

♡ 1

Lyubomyr Levytsky Director

Oleksiy Zavhorodniy as Chorist

Yuriy Horbunov as Nazarii Zapukhlyak

Aleksandr Kobzar as Taras

Tomasz Sobczak as Yurii

Four years have passed since the latest Crazy wedding, and the youngest from Seredyuk family, Zakhar, is now planning to tie the knot. Traditionally for Vasyl’s children, to start a family he chose an exotic match – gypsy baron’s daughter, beautiful Rada. Though his father has sworn not to spoil the wedding this time and does like his future daughter-in-law, a regular celebration would go against Seredyuk tradition. We’re in for a Crazy wedding yet again!

The Guide

2014

7.7

80%

Oles Sanin Director

Aleksandr Kobzar as Comrade Vladimir Jamala

Jamala as Olga

Anton Sviatoslav Greene as Peter Shamrock

Oleh Prymohenov as Sytnyk

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

Butterfly Vision

6.5

♡ 4

86%

Maksym Nakonechnyi Director

Miroslav Gai as Beard

Myroslava Vytrykhovska-Makar as Lilia's mother

Natalya Vorozhbit as Magpie

Yevheniya Nepytaliuk as Ombudswoman

After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.

Blindfold

2020

6.0

♡ 2

mixed martial arts (mma)

Sport

Taras Dron Director

Larisa Rusnak as Denys's Mother

Igor Danchuk as Printer worker

Igor Salimonov as Viktor

Maryna Koshkina as Yulia

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.

Woman at War

2018

Icelandic

7.4

♡ 21

97%

Benedikt Erlingsson Director

Jörundur Ragnarsson as Baldvin

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as Halla / Ása

Helga Braga Jónsdóttir as Prison guard

Hilmir Snær Guðnason as Taxi driver

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Mariupolis 2

Russian

6.9

♡ 1

100%

Mantas Kvedaravicius Director

Viacheslav Ostritsa as Self

Liudmila Ostritsa as Self

Mark Ostritsa as Self

Piotr Malyj as Self

In 2022, Mantas Kvedaravičius went back to Ukraine, Mariupol, at the heart of the war, to be with the people he had met and filmed in 2015. Following his death, his producers and collaborators have put all their strength into continuing transmitting his work, his vision and his films. Also a PhD in anthropology, Mantas Kvedaravičius wished to testify as a filmmaker as far as possible from the agitation of the media and the politicians. With huge force and sensitivity, Mariupolis 2 depicts life as it continues amidst the bombing and reveals images that convey both tragedy and hope.

Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf

6.0

♡ 4

Myroslav Latyk Director

Bogdan Benyuk as Buben

Oleh Prymohenov as Buhay

Mykhailo Illienko as Syvyi

Denys Skrypnyk as Tail

Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.

Klondike

6.9

♡ 5

Maryna Er Gorbach Director

Oleksiy Konovalenkov as Commander

Amdrii Iaroshevskii as Mercenary

Danylo Savchenko as Mercenary

Anatolij Ohorodnyk as Mercenary

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 gets captured by armed forces. Shortly after they find themselves at the center of an international air crash catastrophe on July 17, 2014.

Superpower

2023

6.0

♡ 17

47%

75%

Documentary

Sean Penn Director

Sean Penn as

Anderson Cooper as Self

Miles Teller as Self

Vladimir Putin as Self - Russian Dictator

Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s documentary, shot just before and after Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, and featuring several interviews with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods

2024

7.9

♡ 6

Documentary

russia

security service of ukraine

war

War

Jamie Roberts Director Natalia

Natalia as Self - Combat Medic, Berlingo Batallion Dmytro

Dmytro as Self - Company Commander, Berlingo Batallion Denys

Denys as Self - FPV Drone Pilot, 28th Brigade Maksym

Maksym as Self - Soldier, Berlingo Batallion

A revealing and moving portrait of lives compromised by war, filmed exclusively by Ukrainian soldiers with extraordinary access to a tightly-controlled frontline.

The Hydra

5.1

Thriller