The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol. Read More »
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022) Antonio Lukich
Mykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children Read More »
The Voice of the Herbs (1992) Golos travy
Retelling of a folk legend about a beautiful sorceress and her young apprentice. Read More »
Mamay (2003) Oles Sanin, Viktoria Spesivtseva, Andrij Bilous, Nazl Sejtablaeva
Mamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet Read More »
A Family (2019) Jayden Stevens, Maksym Derbenyov, Larysa Hraminska, Tetiana Kosianchuk
A man living in solitary seeks emotional refuge in the organising Read More »
The Night Before Christmas / Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale Read More »
Donbass (2018) Sergey Loznitsa, Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda Read More »
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv (1965) Sergei Parajanov, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. Read More »
Swan Lake: The Zone AKA Lebedyne ozero. Zona (1990) Yuri Ilyenko, Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. Read More »
The White Bird Marked with Black AKA Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971) Yuri Ilyenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka
Colourful ‘optimistic tragedy’ of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains Read More »