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- DirectorIgor LopatonokStarsOliver StoneVladimir PutinVictor YanukovichUkraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of democratically elected Yanukovych. Covered by Western media as a people's revolution, it was in fact a coup d'état scripted and staged by nationalist groups and the U.S. State Department. Investigative journalist Robert Parry reveals how U.S.-funded political NGOs and media companies have emerged since the 80s replacing the CIA in promoting America's geopolitical agenda abroad.
- DirectorKitty GreenStarsInna ShevchenkoSasha ShevchenkoAnna HutsolUkraine's topless feminist sensation Femen has created a media frenzy across Europe, but before they take the world by storm, these bold and beautiful women must confront the dark and perverse forces that power their organisation.
- DirectorKostiantyn KliatskinStarsKostyantyn LinartovychPoliske was contaminated with radioactive material after the 1986 Chornobyl disaster. Soviet authorities did everything they could to erase the ancient history of this town, and after Chernobyl, they destroyed its future.
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
- DirectorWojciech SmarzowskiStarsMichalina LabaczArkadiusz JakubikWasyl WasylikDespite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
- DirectorOlesya MorgunetsStarsIryna LazerLarysa RusnakDuring 1944-1946 more than 480,000 Ukrainians had been forced to leave the territory of modern northeastern Poland - Kholmshchyna, Nadsiannia, Pidliashshia, and Lemkivshchyna. The eyewitness tells the story of deportation and recalls terrible conditions in which she and other Ukrainians were taken from Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- DirectorNikolay MashchenkoStarsVolodymyr AbazopuloDenys KokarovSergey DzhigurdaOne of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648-1657).
- DirectorOlesya MorgunetsStarsKateryna BilykKateryna KachanMikhail KukuyukWhat was really happening between Poland and Ukraine during the WWII and after that? The unique guerrilla operation in Hrubieszów highlights a climax of one of the hardest paths the nations had to take during the WWII.
- StarsBogdan StupkaRadmila ShegolevaBogdan BenyukThe main events of the film unfold in the difficult times for Ukraine. After the death of Khmelnytsky, the struggle for hetman power between Yakim Somk and Ivan Bryukhovetsky intensifies, and the Black Rada of 1663 culminates in a fierce political confrontation. Against the backdrop of political intrigues, unexpected alliances and betrayals, another storyline is unfolding - love - Large-scale battle scenes, picturesque national costumes, famous and beloved actors make the film attractive to the widest possible audience.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsIrina BardakovaNikolay BoklanOleg DrachOne hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, led by Michael Duda (Hromenko) fearlessly fighting with the Bolshevics and with the Nazis.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsSergey RomanyukYevhen NyshchukYaroslav MukaStory about Metropolitan of UGCC Andrew Sheptytsky who opposed repressive totalitarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler and chose the path of service to God and people.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsSergey FrolovIrma VitovskaVictoria YanchukThe Secret Diary of Simon Petliura takes an unprecedented look at the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, which declared an independent Ukraine in 1918, and the later assassination of the UNR's chairman, Symon Petliura in Paris in 1926, orchestrated by the Kremlin at the start of the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevStarsEvgeniy LamakhAndrey FedinchikNadiya KoverskaUkraine, 1918. As a Bolshevik army of about 4.000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers -about 300 of which are students- is resisting near the railroad station of Kruty. The clash between the opposite and unequal forces rages, with terrible fury. Young people, like Spartan soldiers, sacrifice themselves in a struggle against aggressors.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- DirectorAksel LundinGeorgiy StabovoyStarsNikolai KuchinskyMatvei LyarovYuri TyutyunikPropaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
- DirectorRenat DavletyarovStarsGela MeskhiEvgeniy MikheevSergey KholmogorovPeople with different beliefs find themselves in the epicenter of a military conflict, but in order to survive, they will have to unite.
- DirectorIgor MinaievThis is a film-reflection. The idea of the film is to study the myth of Donbas using archives of documentary and feature films.
- DirectorOlya SchechterA story of a sniper fighting for the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisOles SaninBREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
- DirectorIvan TymchenkoStarsTaras KostanchukOleg DrachAleksandr MavritsBased on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle.
- DirectorOles YanchukStarsValeriy LeginMarina MogilevskayaOrest OgorodnikThe film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of 1959, when in Munich KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi killed Stepan Bandera.
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsMykola BerezaOleg ShulgaAleksandr MavritsIn 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of criminal leaders, treachery, and despair. Despite the repression of the prison-camp commander, Danylo finds the strength to resist and makes a desperate attempt to break free, sparking the first rebellion in the camp.
- StarsKirill PolukhinNatalya BuzkoMatvey ZubalevichWorld War II. Nazi-occupied Ukraine. Germans set up a camp called "Hope", a site of medical experiments on children. Twins are designated as experimental subjects. So when one of the twins, Petya, escapes from the camp, the Germans raise an alarm, trying to find the runaway. The life of the entire village turns to hell: partisans need to consider their hide-outs with extreme prudence, locals are suffering from inspections and local police are doing their best to find the escapee. The plot reveals Petya's life as well as a love story of a young couple. Under the constant threat of death, deceived and desperate, the characters will display an immense capacity for resistance.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsHans FrankDina PronichevaAnastasya OsmachkoNazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
- DirectorJeff KanewStarsMichael DegenBarbara De RossiKatrin SassBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
- DirectorBoris MaftsirWith the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in the Ukraine. "The road to Babi Yar" shows the events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Ukraine, during which the Nazis, with the participation of local residents, began killing Jews directly in their places of residence, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system in hundreds of killing sites, symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians, local residents - eyewitnesses to those events and Jewish survivors of the Shoah, presented in the film, allow us to recreate a comprehensive and painful picture of the fate of the Jews of Ukraine during the Shoah.
- DirectorSergey BukovskyStarsPolina Bel'skaiaMaryna ChaikaMariia Egorycheva-GlagolevaSurvivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
- DirectorSergey BukovskySvetlana ZalogaStarsZbigniew BrzezinskiGennadiy BurbulisLeonid Kravchuk"Ukraine. The Starting Point" is a large documentary project, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Ukrainian independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The epoch-making events of 1989-1991 changed the geopolitical conformation of the world forever, the milestones of these years became determinant for a lot of European countries, which became independent and chose the way of self-reliant development. Nevertheless, these events were significant for millions of people, they remain in the shade for the mass audience. In the film the spectator will get the information about what had happened in politic echelons and how the independent Ukraine was founded at first hand.
- DirectorDanila KozlovskiyStarsDanila KozlovskiyOksana AkinshinaFilipp AvdeevA story about a heroic fireman who worked as one of Chernobyl liquidators.
- DirectorBradley ParkerStarsJesse McCartneyJonathan SadowskiOlivia Taylor DudleySix tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.
- StarsRihards LepersIvanna SakhnoViktor SaraykinThe Chernobyl explosion in 1986 changed their lives forever - After the tragedy, stories of joy and pain, love and separation revive from the ashes of a tragedy.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBogdan StupkaLyudmila EfimenkoNikita DzhigurdaA Prayer for Hetman Mazepa unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle.
- DirectorBobby LeighStarsJim HendersonBobby LeighJonny LewisIn 1932-33, Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, had bountiful crops of grain, yet its people were dying of starvation. In order to crush the will of the independent-minded Ukrainian peasants and secure collectivization of all Ukrainian lands, Joseph Stalin ordered an army of ruthless, Communist Party activists to confiscate all harvested grain and seize all the foodstuffs in the villages. As a result of this genocidal decree, by the end of 1933 nearly 25 percent of the Ukrainian population - up to 10 million people, including 3 million children - had perished! In the face of terror, Ukrainians had little possibility of escaping their horrific fate to create another life elsewhere. Travel was banned for Ukrainians keeping them confined in a prison of starvation within their own villages.
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsMax IronsSamantha BarksTerence StampSet in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
- DirectorAriadna OchrymovychThe Richest Soil. The Best Harvest. The Biggest Lie. The Best Kept Secret. Millions Perished.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsJames NortonVanessa KirbyPeter SarsgaardA Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
- DirectorSergey MokritskiyStarsYuliya PeresildEvgeniy TsyganovOleg VasilkovA story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
- DirectorEvgeny AfineevskyStarsHis Beatitude SviatoslavSaid IsmagilovBishop AgapitA documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
- DirectorDavid GriecoStarsMalcolm McDowellMarton CsokasRonald PickupA disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.
- DirectorCamille LotteauStarsAndrej BabisBernard-Henri LévyEmmanuel MacronDuring the 2019 European election campaign, Bernard-Henri Levy sets out to save Europe by travelling across the continent with a play written and performed by him. The film follows the relentless defender of the EU along the roads of some 20 intertwined countries, but also goes out of the theatres to meet situations and faces. The black and white aplomb of the character BHL underlines, in contrast, the colourful dress of Princess Europe, whose frail fabric is woven of unevenly distributed wealth, memories of war and promises of struggle. A mute migrant, the sweetness of Lisbon, the irruption of the Transcarpathian in the basement of an Ukrainian bar, a President who pretends that "populism is the people" or another one who mourns his country abandoned to free trade, Macron, Orban, Babis, well known and unknown people, are the characters of this story. We push the muddy or golden doors of all houses; we roam a common space, we capture, or leave, the theatrical adventure; and we listen to the chorus of the multitude rising above the jousts of power.
- DirectorKornii HrytsiukStarsKornii HrytsiukTasia Pugach"The Train: Kyiv - War" is a full-length documentary film directed by Korniy Gricyuk. The dramatic history of the Kyiv-Kostyantynivka train, with its passengers' unique fates, pain, memories, secrets, hopes, is a history of today Ukraine. Only 12.5 hours away from peaceful Kyiv is Kostyantynivka, a small industrial city in the eastern part of the country, immediately after which the front begins. This entire time people with different characters, social status, political views, and beliefs are traveling on the train side by side. They talk, debate, even quarrel, but speak to each other and go in a common direction. And what's important, they all want to get to peace. This film is the voice of ordinary people, the search for dialogue and the path to a common future, where everyone's voice will be heard.
- DirectorAnna GrazhdanStarsAnatoliy BogushAdolf HitlerMikhail KirponosAfter the swift success at Smolensk, Hitler has diverted the bulk of Heinz Guderian's panzers down to the South, so as to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, considered more important than Moscow in Hitler's mind. It begins a gigantic clash and turns out to be the biggest military encirclement in history.
- Soviet forces advancing on Kiev are briefly stalled at the Dnieper River until a tank unit crosses a shallow ford and promptly drives the Nazis from the city. The Soviet charge through Ukraine becomes a war of attrition for the Nazis which are quickly weakened to the point they can no longer counter attack. The Soviets soon capture the critical Romainian oilfields. As they drive into Hungary, Hitler reinforces his southern forces with units badly needed to defend against the Soviet main offensive in the German homeland.
- DirectorAndrew TkachStarsAlina BeskrovnaOlena DanylovychIvan DoanThey took on a powerful autocrat and won Ukraine's Maidan Revolution by putting their lives on the line in Kiev's main square. But that was only the first battle of the young idealists of Generation Maidan. Now they are battling corrupt oligarchs and bureaucrats in the capital and pro Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. From the first days of the protest a team of Ukrainian filmmakers called Babylon'13 volunteered to capture history in the making on their DSLRs. While the smoke and emotions were still smoldering, Director Andrew Tkach interviewed medics, musicians, self-defense volunteers, civic activists and torture victims who appeared in Babylon's rushes. The front-line footage and interviews with young members of Generation Maidan are woven together to tell an unforgettable story.
- DirectorMoritz SchulzTwo kids, one war, one camp. Jasmin and Jastrip grow up in Ukraine. Surrounded by war and rising nationalism, they visit the Azovez camp. There they become real patriots and that is what they came for - but it's not why they stay.
- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsOleksiy TyschykAnastasiaOleksandr KolodyazhnyyA Ukraine's epic story about two families torn by war.
- DirectorAskold KurovStarsOleh SentsovVladimir PutinVictor YanukovichA documentary about Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, arrested by the Russian FSB in Crimea and sentenced to 20 years in prison on contrived charges.
- DirectorMarina StepanskaStarsChristian BorysOleh MosiichukDaria PlakhtiiTwo bewildered young Ukrainians, part of the post-revolutionary generation seeking their place, meet at a pivotal moment and experience a few days of happiness together.
- DirectorIgor ParfenovStarsEllen SlusarchiAn epic drama about events in Maidan and the war in Ukraine. Maidan's shooting bothers an ex-activist - his friend was killed. Looking for the guilty he was captured with his friend by Field Commander "Ideologist" who has occupied the part of Ukraine and established his own rules there, lynches and does not obey the law. Hostages were taken as prisoners by the family of three brother-terrorists, who were trying to exchange them during 6 days. Otherwise they will be killed. But the sequence of the conflicts is tearing up the militant's family inside.
- DirectorLeonid KanterIvan YasniyStarsBohemaHatyloThis is a story of a new Ukrainian army and new Ukrainian society being born. After Maidan revolution Ukrainian volunteer warriors defend Donetsk Airport from pro-Russian separatists and Russian militaries.
- DirectorVitaliy ManskiyRussian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbas, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director's own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych's flight to Russia. But below the main narrative there is a strong historical undercurrent, because the lives of protagonists of the film are marked by history on every step they take. This undercurrent will carry information about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict's deep roots in centuries of close ties between the two countries.
- DirectorElena VolochineJames KeoghOleg's Choice is a rare immersion into the private lives and thoughts of Russian combatants who have chosen to fight on the separatists side in Ukraine. Since the summer of 2014, thousands of young Russians poured into the Donbas region. Driven by Russian propaganda, they believed they were fulfilling their patriotic duty. Among the first wave of volunteers were Oleg and Max. Oleg was appointed deputy commander of a battalion, while Max became a soldier. Their illusions were shattered on the night of June 3rd 2015, when a battle went horribly wrong. While Oleg and Max continue to fight on the ground, they must also fight creeping doubts that they have that they ended up on the wrong side of the war. The film follows their introspection over the long term; the confession they have gone adrift, the search for meaning, the shock at realizing they have been misled - that they themselves have made mistakes to the frantic rhythm of a war that crushes bodies and reason. It is the story of the human face of a lie that confuses those involved. In this war rewritten by propaganda, where two parallel realities confront each other, they try in their own different ways to find a raison d'être. This is a human story on the borders of good and evil, where men are confronted by their own choices.
- DirectorAlina GorlovaStarsOksana YakubovaWhat is left backstage of the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peaceful life, and where does the war stop?
- DirectorYevhen TitarenkoWar with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.
- DirectorAnastasiia StarozhitskaMariia StarozhitskaThe story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
- DirectorTaras KhymychStarsTsyan Pen ChenDmytro KarshnevychYuriy KhvostenkoIn 1943, the Ukrainians managed to organize an insurgent army capable of conducting large-scale military operations on two fronts - against the Germans and the Bolsheviks.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsLarisa KadochnikovaIvan MikolaychukBogdan StupkaColourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.
- DirectorIgor ParfenovStarsEllen SlusarchiFeature film about Evromaidan. The shooting took place from the first day of the appearance of protesters at the square. The script of a full-length feature film 'Once in Ukraine' was written during the week after the events of 11-30-2013, when the authorities violently dispersed and beat peaceful student-demonstrators.
- 2008– 53m8.0 (55)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul MoreiraStarsStéphane HaumantPaul MoreiraArseniy YatsenukFrom the Maidan revolution to the after effects of the Odessa popular opposition, seen from both sides of the flaming barricades,
- StarsYoram SheftelEli GabayMichael ShakedA Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous German death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
- DirectorDaniel Reynolds RiveiroStarsDavid DukeCarol GarrardHeinrich HimmlerExplores the history of antisemitic hate in Ukraine: from the million Jews that were buried in its famed black earth to the skinhead gangs that beat Jews in the street today.
- DirectorLiev SchreiberStarsElijah WoodEugene HutzBoris LyoskinA young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsAlan BatesDirk BogardeGeorgia BrownIn Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
- DirectorJordanis OrfanidisStarsTobias B.A summary of Manstein's smart counterattack in February 1943.
- DirectorYakov AvdeyenkoYuliya SolntsevaAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsLeonid KhmaraOleksiy FyodorovHermann GöringDepicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
- DirectorJoseph H. ZarovichStarsEverett SloaneDocumentary showcasing footage of the trials and executions of Nazi war criminals in Kharkov, Russia in December, 1943.
- DirectorJanet TobiasStarsChris NicolaFruzsina PelikánSaul StermerA cave exploration in Ukraine leads to the unearthing of a story of World War II survivors who once found shelter in the same cave.
- DirectorKrzysztof Kopczynski30 thousand Hasidim journey to Uman in Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of Rebbe Nachmann. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768.
- DirectorDan SpigelStarsFarah WhiteMichelle IrvingElena Burunova10 million Ukrainians lost their lives in the first half of the 20th Century. 600,000 Ukrainian Jews perished, victims of Hitler and Stalin. Ukraine amassed thousands of World War II monuments. Half of the Russian losses occurred in Ukraine. Based on a true story.
- DirectorMichale BoganimStarsEsther HossidVictoria LesinaDavid VarerA voyage from the Ukraine to New York to Israel, portraying the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
- DirectorAnton Galushka-AdaikinSergii GromovFull-length narrative-documentary film based on real events that occurred in Kharkiv and in Kharkiv region in 1941-1942. The little girl Nina is surrounded by love and care of her parents, but they still don't realize that DISASTER is waiting for them. The focus is on the story of the Ukrainian-Jewish family, who felt all the horrors of totalitarianism. The feature part of the film reveals the story of ordinary people who have witnessed the "black" pages of human history. The documentary part is an excursion into the history of the Holodomor, the Holocaust and other forms of totalitarianism in Kharkiv and in Kharkiv region.
- DirectorEefje BlankevoortArnold van BruggenWant to hasten the arrival of the Messiah? Flemish Christian activist Koen Carlier is on a mission to return all the Jews to their homeland in an effort to speed up the return of Jesus Christ to this world. In his laidback, yet aggressive manner, Koen travels through Ukraine, seeking out Jews to send to Israel. Backed by the adept Christians for Israel organization in the Netherlands, Koen aims to encourage all of the Jews to move to Israel and fulfill his lifelong dream of redemption. A documentary about dogmatic actions and the mundane, often far-reaching consequences of utopic missions.
- DirectorSagi BornsteinUdi NirShani RozanesStarsUri AvneriYossi BeilinMeron MedziniThe eventful story of Golda Meir's term as Prime Minister of Israel - from her surprising rise to power and iconic international stature as "queen of the Jewish people", to her tragic and lonely demise.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsIngrid BergmanNed BeattyFranklin CoverThe story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- DirectorSarah JoblingStarsAlisdair SimpsonDavid CesaraniJohn DemjanjukDetails of collaborators in Ukraine and Lithuania are examined.
- DirectorJean CounetThrough a Skype call the daily life, dreams and fears of a family in Eastern-Ukraine is revealed while the bombs are falling in the background.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy SamoylovIvan SkuratovLuka LyashenkoBiography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- DirectorYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy BondarenkoZinaida DekhtyaryovaIrina KorotkovaAbout hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Ukrainian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVladimir SolovyovGrigori BelovAleksandra VasilyevaThe heroic life of a Ukrainian agronomist who becomes world famous and who the Bolshevik Revolution allows to cultivate new species of fruit trees as part of a project to transform nature.
- DirectorSérgio TréfautStarsMaria de MedeirosIsabel RuthMakena DiopMaria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year in with her husband, also a doctor. She is approached by agents of the Immigration Services that take her to an interrogation room, without any explanation. All this occurs because the authorities have the suspicious that something illegal must be behind their trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.
- DirectorSarah FarhatOlha OnyshkoStarsAda RogovtsevaA Jewish man whose family chose to save the life of its worst enemy. A Ukrainian woman who endured the theft of her children to save her country. A Polish priest who risked everything to end the sectarian hatred that tore at his parish. In the epic settings of the events that changed the course of modern history, during and after the Second World War, Three Stories of Galicia reveals the intimate stories of three courageous individuals who took it upon themselves to preserve the dignity of the human spirit.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsJon VoightJason RobardsSammi DavisTrue story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
- DirectorNick Baker-MonteysStarsJürgen ProchnowPetra Schmidt-SchallerTambet TuiskA former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
- DirectorVyacheslav RebrovStarsVladimir MashkovYelena RomanovaAleksey ZharkovThe action takes place in Lwów (L'viv) on the eve of World War II. A former White Army officer (Vladimir Mashkov) after the defeat of the Whites in the civil war in Russia emigrated to Poland (Lwów was a Polish city at that time). The chief dream of his was to buy Alaska from the USA and to return it back to Russia.
- DirectorAleksandr PavlovskiyStarsDmitriy KharatyanBorislav BrondukovAleksandr DemyanenkoPost-revolutionary Odessa. A schoolboy who dreams of a career as Sherlock Holmes finds himself in that bewitching nightmare that is commonly called the crucible of revolution.
- DirectorIgor SavchenkoStarsKonstantin NassonovLeonid ShekhtmanKonstantin TyrtovThe story of three young Russsian adventurers against the background of post-revolutionary skirmishes in the Ukraine. The boys get mixed up with a wounded commissar and a marauding White Russian officer. They find themselves in all sorts of predicaments before the Reds arrive to save the day, and become the mascots of a troop of Bolshevik cavalry.
- DirectorGeorgiy StabovoyStarsIvan ZamychkovskySergei MininValeriy GakkebushDuring the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- DirectorIgor SavchenkoStarsLev SverdlinStepan ShkuratPyotr MasokhaEpisodic story of the Russian resistance to the German invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Russian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
- DirectorAlena DemyanenkoStarsKatya MolchanovaMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiIvan BrovinFanny was at the wrong place at the right time, got involved with the wrong people and got punished for believing in them. This is her story.
- StarsOlga PogodinaPavel DelongKonstantin KryukovCrimea, 1920. At the height of the Civil War, fate confronts two intelligence agents: journalist Max Ermler and Italian poet El Ferrari. A romance between them, full of passion and madness, could have become a beautiful love story, if not for one circumstance. Both of them are spies of warring.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyIrina TretyakovaStarsEvgeniy TsyganovLeonid YarmolnikIrina RozanovaOdessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit his pensioner in-laws, Grigori and Raisa. Their daughters, Mira and Lora and their husbands, Arik and Volodya respectively and children are also there on vacation. His wife is the middle daughter and would come later. It is a Jewish family. Arik is a slobber and Volodya a quiet drunk. Something doesn't smell like love. On the day of their arrival, Odessa declares a quarantine due to a cholera outbreak, and the city is closed off. Boris is a true international journalist and a real import, metropolitan little thing. He drives women and girls in Odessa crazy with his metropolitan gloss. Having come for a few days, the son-in-law is plunged into a world changed by serious danger. Family secrets will be disclosed, improbable events happen, and a great forbidden love starts.
- DirectorAleksandr AlovVladimir NaumovIgor SavchenkoStarsSergey BondarchukIvan PereverzevPavel ShpringfeldA biopic about a national hero of the Ukraine.
- DirectorDave PultzStarsMeryl StreepEyewitness and survivor accounts of Stalinist purges in Ukraine in 1930s and 1940s.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyEvgeniy GrigorevEkaterina VeshevaIn the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother, Russia, and not to become one of the American satellites. This extensive study lasted for almost three years. Many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists took part in this study, as well as the ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, the ex-President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, the ex-President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the businessman Boris Berezovsky.