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6.7

90%

Action

donbass war

ukraine

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.

Dovbush

2023

7.4

♡ 13

Oles Sanin Director

Oleg Drach as Dengoff

Jerzy Schejbal as Hetman Potocki

Mateusz Kosciukiewicz as Przeluski

Agata Buzek as Yablonowska

In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom?

The Stronghold

2017

6.2

♡ 25

33%

Yuriy Kovalyov Director

Hennadii Popenko as instructor for tourism

Nataliya Sumskaya as Milanka

Erbolat Toguzakov as Shaman

A solar eclipse activates a magic time portal, and a regular schoolboy Vit'ko from the 21st century goes a thousand years back in time. It doesn’t take Vitya long to recognize the legendary bogatyrs in young Oleshko, powerful Ilya and severe Dobrynya. Their life passes in fighting cumans who try to destroy Rusichi at any cost, using both weapons and black magic. Vitya finds himself in the very midst of incredible events, battles with mythical creatures and acquires real courage.

The Fight Rules

6.0

Aleksey Shaparev Director

Dmytro Stupka as Dimon

Pavlo Li as Dyzel

Oleksandr Usyk as Professional Boxer

Vlad Nikityuk as Taras

Film tells an exciting story of a confrontation between talented boxer and criminal patrons of mixed fights MMA.

Atlantis

6.9

♡ 3

97%

Valentyn Vasyanovych Director

Vitaliy Sudarkov as Aidman

Olexandr Sobko as Border Guard

Igor Kaznacheyev as Director of ATP

Kateryna Popravka as Translator

A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.

Summer Lover

2008

4.5

♡ 9

lesbian relationship

Romance

Robert Crombie Director

Sergey Kosenko as Christos

Bakhtiyar Aliev as Island Resident

Seit-Khalil Ametov as Island Resident

Oksana Osipova as Maria

On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.

Why Moths Fly to the Light?

4.8

Zaur Dzhafarov Director

Anita Shmatova as

Arthur Valente as

Guillaume Taillefert as Victor Hugo Club owner

Beatrice will soon go blind. She tries to explore all the streets and intersections of Paris, so that later she can move around without a stick. One night, she meets a battered guy on the street and helps him regain his senses.

Stop-Zemlia

2021

7.2

♡ 7

94%

Kateryna Gornostai Director

Kateryna Gornostai as Kateryna / Self

Inna Belikova as Masha's mother

Arsenii Markov as Senia Steshenko

Yana Isaienko as Yana Bratiychuk

Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the Ukrainian director composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental.

U311 Cherkasy

6.5

♡ 8

War

Tymur Yashchenko Director

Oleg Karpenko as Felix

Evgeny Avdeenko as Illya

Oles Katsion as Kok

Vadim Lyalko as Mitchman

The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.

When the Trees Fall

2018

6.3

♡ 7

80%

Marysia Nikitiuk Director

Aelita Nazarenko as Nastya

Ivan Blindar as Sanko

Misha Kostyuk as Vadik

Volodymyr Bezdomnikov as Yukhym

In the rural Ukraine, in a ghostly world where fantasy tears the veil of reality, life fiercely fights death every day and old values and vengeance reign over people's souls, Vitka, an imaginative and rebellious little girl, is the fascinated witness to the crazy love that Larysa, her teenage cousin, feels for Scar, a young criminal.

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.

Homeward

7.3

♡ 4

77%

57%

Action

crimea annexation (2014)

occupation of crimea

Nariman Aliev Director

Viktoriya Chuharkova as Mother

Olga Pasichnyk as Olya

Maya Yarmolenko as Sveta

Arseniy Zurov as Taras

Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.

Servant of the People 2

2016

6.4

♡ 3

Comedy

Family

government corruption

president

Aleksey Kiryushchenko Director

Tamara Yatsenko as

Yuriy Horbunov as Corporate party host

Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko

Andrey Danilko as Verka Serduchka

President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To stabilize the situation in the country Goloborodko needs to get financial assistance from the IMF in the amount of 15 billion euros, which can be provided, if reforms and anti-corruption laws will be introduced in Ukraine.

Viddana

2020

6.4

♡ 5

Christina Sivolap Director

Vita Tavrika as Baumel's wife

Ostap Dziadek as Man with buckets

Roman Lutskyi as Petro Skolyk

Marianna Januszewicz as Stefania Chornen'ko

The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger against the backdrop of the provincial Austro-Hungary in 1900. Both Stefania’s parents and Adelia’s mother died during the fire. Adelia’s father adopted neighbors’ orphan. Girls grew up together to become as close as sisters, though Stefania served as the maid. This attachment develops into love-trap: on one hand full of mutual manipulation and jealousy, but equally based on сare and devotion. The illusion of balance is broken when Adelia marries sculptor Petro. Everything gets even more complicated when Joseph, the old love interest of Stefa, returns to town as the priest and married man. Illusions are destined to evaporate and reality comes into focus.

Brama

2017

6.8

♡ 7

Volodymyr Tykhyy Director

Irma Vitovskaya as Baba Prisa

Dmitriy Tuboltsev as Dad

Vitalina Bibliv as Slava

Yaroslav Fedorchuk as Vovchyk

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

Olga

2021

6.8

♡ 6

92%

Elie Grappe Director

Lou Steffen as Andrea

Tanya Mikhina as Ilona Budishkina

Alicia Onomor as Juliette

Aleksandr Mavrits as Vassily

2013. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to secure a place in the National Sports Centre. But the Euromaidan revolt erupts in Kyiv, and suddenly her loved ones are involved. While the girl is adapting to her new country and preparing for the European Championships, the Ukrainian revolution makes its way into her life, and nothing will ever be the same again.

The Forgotten

6.0

♡ 13

War

Daria Onyshchenko Director

Sergei Smeyan as

Maryna Koshkina as Nina

Aleksey Gorbunov as Vasyli

Galina Korneeva as Woman in bus

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can't leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to undergo retraining courses for teaching Russian. Andrii, 17, is a student who was orphaned in the aftermath of the war. They cross paths when Nina witnesses Andrii being arrested by the police after hanging the Ukrainian flag from the roof of his school. Nina knows that because they live in a world of injustice and lies Andrii can stay in jail for a long time, and she risks her life to free him. As they gravitate towards each other, they try to remind people in the occupied territories that they deserve a future, too.

Reflection

2021

6.6

♡ 3

95%

War

Valentyn Vasyanovych Director

Nadiya Levchenko as Olha

Nika Myslytska as Polina

Andrii Senchuk as Psychologist

Oleksandr Danyliuk as Surgeon

The film centers on Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy, who is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine, and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference toward human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.

Generation '91

Christina Tynkevych Director

A glimpse into the lives of the first post-Soviet generation of Ukrainians. Who are those born at the collapse of the Soviet era and what do they think about their country, nation and identity? An avant-garde playwright from Kyiv, a factory worker from a small village in Sumy, a politician from Lutsk, an ex-soldier from the East - the list goes on. Together they form a mosaic portrait of a generation and of Ukraine today.

This Rain Will Never Stop

2020

7.0

♡ 1