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…

The story of the murder of two twin brothers, whom the villagers consider to be one person. Out of fear that the Messiah has come and will bring a terrible judgment, people commit new crimes.

In the Volyn region, in the monastery of XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there… The authors seem to fix everyday life only, watching its drift. But we see a metaphor of the socialist system of values, declared by the local manager – either Elsa Koch or “Beria in a skirt”: “Socializm is accounting! You have done a good deed – write it down!”

For over ten years, Kyiv artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnychenko have been working on the project of the Park of Memory at Baykovy Hill in Kyiv. Next to the world-famous building of the Halls of Farewell at Kyiv crematorium (architect Avraam Miletsky), Rybachuk and Melnychenko created a series of monumental, unique sculptures over 2000 square meters in size, which represented various key tragedies from the history of mankind. However, at the beginning of 1982, the local authorities decided to cancel the work on the Wall, and to pour concrete over several hundred square meters of ready sculptures. This decision was one of the largest-scale acts of art censorship in the USSR.

The debut film by Serhiy Bukovsky, created at the Ukrainian documentary film studio, gave birth to a new critical wave of Ukrainian non-fiction films. Having received a request to create a film with a seemingly hopeless topic, which has long been overused by Soviet propaganda – the life of a provincial poultry plant – Bukovsky unexpectedly created a film about the deep social crisis of Soviet society. Instead of the typical presentation of socialist work, the film demonstrates the day-to-day dead-end lives of Soviet working women, whose social status strips them of any prospects for a better life.

The story of the tragic love of the young lead singer of the popular teenage pop group "Vacations" Andrey Dymov and the equally young, but quite experienced and professional "priestess of love" Masha.