Four passengers travel together on a train for three days, talking about life and people. They discuss each other's characters and values. For the young man, this journey becomes an important experience of communicating with different people, especially with the doctor and the girl, who leave a lasting impression on him.
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness.
During an experiment in the scientific laboratory, an emergency occurs. To prevent the spread of deadly virus, five employees are quarantined, and such extreme situation forces them to reveal their true nature.
Hanna and Leo are expecting a child. They live near Innsbruck where the mountains touch the sky and where absolute bliss seems to reign. But things turn out quite differently.
Jeonim, a lecturer, persuades her uncle to direct her school's theatrical skit due to his past experience. While sketching near a stream, a scandalous incident involving students occurs, implicating Jeonim and her uncle.
A story of lyrical amateurs among professional killers. A group of creative young people tries to maintain an island of safety, peace, and their own unique lifestyle and relationships in a secluded apartment. But freedom comes at a price.
A Farewell to Cinema depicts the axing of state subsidies to the local film industry as Hollywood flicks swamped Ukrainian cinemas, and former film professionals forced to pick random jobs to make a miserable living, struggling to keep their dignity and film heritage from the amnesiac fury of neoliberal diktats. In this precious film, we get a rare glimpse into what exactly was entailed throughout the Eastern Bloc in the passage from ‘Real socialism’ to democracy, in what Soviet dissident Alexander Zinoviev aptly re-named ‘Catastroika’.
The film documents the various mass public protests that took place in Kyiv during the last years of ‘perestroika’ and the first year of independence. The first scenes document the rise of mass democratic protests in Kyiv, principally the People’s Movement of Ukraine and its public actions, which were mostly nationalist in nature. However, during 1991, together with the birth of an independent Ukraine, the situation changed drastically – social frustration grew, the street events became more radical and socially motivated, and shortly turned into apathetic anger at the new social order.
The actress, who is starring in a successful theatre production, is offered a big film role by an Italian director. She decides to leave her current certainties behind and throw herself into the whirlwind of a tempting opportunity, only she doesn’t count on the fact that not every expectation will actually come true as she had ideally hoped…