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.

We hear readings from Dovzhenko's diary and hear how the great suffering of the Ukrainian people caused him to move away from beauty for its own sake to the search for truth, expressed in his two harrowing wartime documentaries. Stalin's 1944 ban on Dovzhenko's Ukraine in Flames screenplay and his subsequent exile to Moscow had a profound impact on him.

A phantasmagoria about the struggle between the USSR and Israel for the last Jewish family remaining in Odessa.

Self-portrait film: the author documents himself and his own vision of the world and nature around him to give the viewer this perspective and to encourage them to be attentive to what surrounds us. For the phonogram, the author compiled the music by composer Jean-Michel Jarre and his own recordings of the sounds of nature, which he made especially for the tape.

An epic comedy about a cyclist and doping, where the author involved his comrades and neighbors. Despite the entertaining nature, we had to work on the tape to carefully prepare and think through the script, props, and shooting locations. The film is complemented by new music written by Regina Zheleznyakova (Regina Collage).

This is the author's first film. It records careful observation of changes in the life cycles of flora and fauna that occur in the garden near his house in Vynnyky. The structure of the film is based on the change of seasons. Accordingly, filming and work lasted all year round. Originally, the tape was silent. In 2020, Regina Zheleznyakova (Regina Collage) and Pavlo Olefirenko (Pilikayu) wrote music for it.

Vera is an elite prostitute who works with foreigners while also carrying out KGB assignments. One day, she falls in love with a wealthy German and dreams of moving to him forever.

Two Soviet boys go to Africa to free the black girl Kane from captivity. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles, they wrest Kane from the grip of the oppressor-colonizer.

The story is about a chick who lives behind a fence on a farm and conducts a choir of the other chicks. After meeting a self-important turkey, the chick also becomes conceited and decides to make his name in the world outside the chicken coop. After being nearly killed by birds, fish, and a cat, he returns home chastened and decides to stay where he is.

On the 24th of February, in the morning, my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and undervalues all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse. We were there for 10 days, sleeping in the basement, hiding from bombings, totally isolated. I wanted to get out, my boyfriend’s parents insisted on staying. In the end, we managed to escape with the last green corridor hours before Russian troops finally entered the city. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

A young girl marries a maître d'hôtel. Unprepared for her new life involving big money and crime, she returns to her hometown and becomes a currency prostitute.

The disappearance of his fifteen-year-old daughter and the indifference of the police to this fact prompted the film's protagonist to conduct his own search. A young woman he meets ‘by chance’ agrees to help him, but she has her own plans.

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely opportunistic, who brought it to a successful conclusion in the tribunes and offices; on the other hand, the citizens who, in the streets, supported it sincerely or fought it with ferocity.

The tired and aging leader of the USSR, Stalin, decides to resort to suspended animation to rest and recuperate. He awakens many years later on April Fool's Day, in the midst of Perestroika.

Pavel Tarlov acts as a reviewer for his friend, who is about to defend his dissertation. Delving into the work, he discovers a number of beautiful assumptions that are not confirmed by practice and refuses to evaluate it. Vadim reproaches Pavel for his cruelty and refuses to work with him on the same expedition...

The protagonist of the film, the talented glassblower Nikolsky, whose works are exhibited at vernissages, is a lonely man who lives in an exquisitely furnished flat with a sheepdog named Peter. But this is only one side of his life. On the other hand, Sergei Sergeyevich is a virtuoso professional killer who justifies his crimes by saying that he only kills ‘scum’. His ‘clients’ are monsters from corrupt power structures. Nikolsky receives an envelope from an imposing elderly man in a restaurant with the surname and photograph of the person who needs to be ‘taken care of,’ along with an address and money. The deadline is two weeks. Upon receiving the order, he gets as close as possible to his client, infiltrating his life before ending it. At the same time, it becomes clear that the client has three respectable women in his power, who are connected by one profession - prostitution.

After the graduation from the institute, Anna was appointed to the weather station far in the north. In addition with her at the station there is only her partner who has an affair with a local woodcutter. But waking up one morning, Anna discovers that she is alone in the station.

The hero of the film, a Komsomol organiser at a large youth construction site, decides whether it is acceptable to sacrifice people's destinies for the sake of a greater cause.

Shortly after World War II, the government sent a crew of drivers with large tractors to clear-cut and plow a vast, barren piece of land called "Krst Rakoc" in the hills of Kosovo and Metohia, for future orchards. They encounter deprecation and revolt from indigenous Albanian population who do not believe in good intentions of the government and the crew.

The film is based on I. Nechui-Levystkyi’s work The Bargewoman. From dawn till dusk from early childhood, Vasylyna has been working on Pan Jastrzebski’s fields. The young nobleman likes the beautiful girl, and she starts working in his home as a maid. Vasylyna’s happiness does not last long: the man marries a girl of his social class. Vasylyna’s fiancé Vasyl, who feels insulted because of her unfaithfulness, instigates guys to cut off the braid of the landlord’s mistress. Vasylyna runs away from the village and hides from people. Soon, she gives birth to a child who dies shortly. Female workers from a factory find barely alive Vasylyna and help her become a weaver. Vasylyna starts a new life.

Depicts the life and work of the great poet and is the first attempt to portray on screen the historical past of the Ukrainian people and their struggle for national and social liberation.

Braling is delightedly browsing through a book of reproductions of the Tahiti paintings by Paul Gauguin. His good-looking wife Lucy is putting on her makeup in front of the mirror. They are meant to be going to a party, but the husband is making excuses. Lucy is sarcastic about his yearning for an exotic island and reminds him that the reason they are going to the party is her father, who is also her husband's boss. Braling gives in, and the two leave the flat, but the man appears to come back very soon. It becomes clear that the wife was escorted to the party by a robot, secretly purchased by the husband, especially for such occasions.

Two angels, God's messengers, who, however, look more like astronauts, visit Lot and, using their transmitters, warn him about the destruction of the city of Sodom and tell him to take his family and leave, as he is the only rightful person in the town. Although Lot constantly criticizes and warns his fellows, he still feels to be one of them and struggles to save them.

Vasia, the son of a factory worker, is attracted by the romance of adventure. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunk who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia's last deed is catching a criminal and denouncing him to the militia.

President Mariano De Santis' term is coming to an end. Disparagingly nicknamed 'Cemento armato' (reinforced concrete) for his intractable nature and overly careful approach to politics, he has grown lonely in the echoing halls of the presidential palace, mourning the loss of his wife and listening to hip-hop. Before returning to civilian life, De Santis must make a series of bold decisions – a pair of presidential pardons and a groundbreaking policy bill – that will cement his legacy.

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.

In the slow, sticky summer of late-90s Eastern Europe, twelve-year-old Ro sets out to procure a pirated copy of Eraserhead by David Lynch. Her journey—through crumbling friendships, stolen cigarettes, and VHS-era power games—unfolds in a world where childhood slips quietly into something else, and cinema becomes the only available glimpse of escape.

In Bratislava at the end of the 1980s, two estranged sisters try to make up with each other while balancing their private lives and careers.

Pyatigorsk, the foot of Mount Mashuk, the morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago, Lermontov and Martynov were friends, and now they have become irreconcilable enemies. There are only a few hours left before their duel, and their relatives, friends and acquaintances are trying to prevent the duel.

Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.

Atanes Ghambaryan, resident of Armenian border village, after the captivity during the World War II, turns up abroad in Turkey and dreams of returning to his homeland. During one of night patrols, border guard Armen who is in love with Ghambaryan's daughter Seda, recognizes him on the other side of the river Araks.

Anya divorces her husband and returns to live with her aunt in a provincial town. Here she meets Boris, a young man who has been in love with her since childhood, and Mykolaienko, a successful businessman who also likes her. It would seem that everything is clear: Boris is much younger than Anya and she still treats him like a little boy, while she likes the businessman Mykolaienko and would not mind sharing her life with him, but life makes its own adjustments to their plans, and everything ends quite unexpectedly...

The villagers cheerfully welcome the Red Brigade paratroopers who have arrived in the village for a rest. When the brigade commander, Ivanov, comes to stay at the priest's house, he falls in love with the priest's daughter. Their marriage plans are thwarted by religious prejudice, as the priest's daughter insists on having the wedding in church.

The story of Niculae, Moromete's youngest son, who in the 1950s becomes an acclaimed young writer who lives his life and complicated love stories in a charged atmosphere tainted by suspicion.

A grandfather tells his grandson a bedtime story about the ancient Narts.

The film depicts a day in the life of a young man. He constantly searches for his place in society but cannot find it, and in the end becomes the victim of an accident.

This is the failed love story between a farming cooperative president and his agricultural engineer. Their marriage breaks up soon after the wedding, and they are trying to put their life together. Life in a Romanian village during the Communist years is presented in all its misery and pretense, but with a light and tender loving humor. It was at the time an under-appreciated piece of propaganda subversion, made more subtle and effective by the director's attempt to pretend that it was not.

Women and men in the middle of the night, without their own clothes, without personal papers and money, without their car keys and mobile phones. In a deserted city, the only solution would be, regardless of how far home is, to walk alone all the way there.

The autopsy of a deceased girl finds that the victim had died long before the accident. Taking over the case, "Grandpa" and his assistant, Panaitescu, discover that the perpetrator of the false accident is being blackmailed.

A village celebrates being granted the title of city. During the festivity, an old, sick, beaten-down man shows up. No one seems to recognize him, but he claims to be a villager that everyone thought had died in the war 30 years earlier.

In Albania's post-communist landscape, a lonely mother, Mira, and her troubled teenage son, Toni, struggle through an outbreak of civil violence that tears their East European nation apart.

Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.

The life of a man after he experiences forgotten baby syndrome, unintentionally leaving his infant daughter in the back seat of his car.

Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.

Victor goes on a cruise. By chance, in the company of two charming companions, the hero gets to the island, meets an eccentric hippie who has been living there in seclusion since the late 60s, and decides to stay here forever. Time goes by, the family grows. and suddenly it turns out that the island is not an island at all, but a continent, beyond the mountains of which normal life flows.

A Hetman sent his treasures to a UK bank, hoping that eventually Ukraine would get rid of the yoke and then the gold would help the people. KGB agents and foreign spies hunt for the descendant of the Hetman in order to obtain the treasure.

Ivan, a simple, good-natured man, wakes up in his flat and notices Kasya the mare outside his window. With a compassionate heart and a kind soul, he takes her in and walks her around the city. What is this mare capable of, and where can she be sheltered? Kasya becomes a problem for Ivan and the subject of all kinds of speculation. Because of the mare, Ivan gets into various troubles with his beloved woman, a newly minted businessman, and kidnappers who want to steal the animal for meat. But unlike everyday problems, she can be easily gotten rid of by letting go of the reins.

The film is based on Georgian medieval epic poem “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” by Shota Rustaveli and depicts an episode of Nestan-Darejan’s release from Kajeti fortress.

The plot centres on the fates of two lonely teenagers. Finding themselves on the streets, the children begin to care for each other like brother and sister in a real family. Denis tells Rosa about his most cherished dream — to visit the beautiful White Lake again, near which he once lived with his grandfather.

The first joint Soviet-Vietnamese feature documentary film directed by Roman Karmen. Shot on color film.

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.

In post–World War I Europe, drifter Jim Jeffries, son of a disgraced stock speculator, stumbles into high society at a London palace card party and parlayed his luck into wealth, only to lose it all in a cutthroat Chinese port and end up in prison. Upon release, he secretly marries the resourceful Jane, reinvents himself in America as Riche Richson, and, newly prosperous, reunites with Jane, now companion to a millionaire’s daughter, on a whirlwind transatlantic adventure that proves fortune can favor the bold.

Having previously investigated the architecture of Hitler and Stalin's regimes, Jonathan Meades turns his attention to another notorious 20th-century European dictator, Mussolini. His travels take him to Rome, Milan, Genoa, the new town of Sabaudia, and the vast military memorials of Redipuglia and Monte Grappa. When it comes to the buildings of the fascist era, Meades discovers a dictator who couldn't dictate, with Mussolini caught between the contending forces of modernism and a revivalism that harked back to ancient Rome. The result was a variety of styles that still influence architecture today. Along the way, Meades ponders on the nature of fascism, the influence of the Futurists, and Mussolini's love of a fancy uniform.

Reveals various aspects of the construction of the dam network in that river basin

Made by commission of the Porto City Council, Panels of the Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between the river and downtown, commented with the reading of poems by authors like Vasco de Lima Couto, Egito Gonçalves, Rosália de Castro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Fernando Pessoa, and António Reis himself, with music by Francisco Rebelo.

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

A tale of a father and his children, whom relentlessly ask him about the meaning of "Potets".

A village boy awaits his father's return from the front. Though he doesn't yet know the alphabet, he begins composing letters and enrolls in school early to learn to write. He believes the Moon Witch — a figure from a fairytale — is behind all the misfortunes of war. In his dreams, he battles her on the moon as she casts black letters — death notices — down to Earth...

Hoffman's classic story, "The Nutcracker and the Mouseking" is the tale of a spoiled prince who lives in a magnificent palace with his magician uncle, Drosselmeier.

Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.

Kahi and Baadur get a letter from Berik, who sent them photographs of women and a letter in which he informs them that he has decided to marry one of them. Having also decided to build their family life with unmarried others, the friends buy a hive of bees and set off on the train.

A young journalist Sofia, who survived the betrayal and death of her husband, has to write an article about a detective. For all his activities, only two of the cases assigned to him remain unsolved. Sofia understands the reason for these failed cases.

Petr Polyakov, director of a large factory, meets a girl named Varya in a very unusual way. She gets into his car and, introducing herself as his daughter, shows Polyakov a photograph of her mother. Polyakov recognises the face in the photograph—it is his former lover, Zinaida.

On the advice of his teacher, young mathematician Sasha Shmagin went to Moscow to show the solution of an interesting and difficult problem to scientists. However, the boy did not make it to the professorship.

Aging Bosnian rocker Toni Riff hasn’t written a single song in twenty years; suffering from depression, he relies on financial support from his wife Sonia. The latter decides to make a last-ditch attempt to salvage Toni’s talent – and their marriage.

Private detective Tom Machata, lost in the dramatic fantasies of crime novels, is pulled into a real-life mystery when his assistant Archibald is robbed of a bag full of money. Clues lead them to investigate women with tiny feet, prompting Tom to pose as a skate helper and Archibald as a shoeshine boy. Tom falls for one of the women and gets hired by her to spy on her boyfriend, who then hires Tom to spy on her.

Once upon a time, a tear fell from a star's eye, hanging in the air like a huge ball, and someone called it Baltanosaurus...

While researching or playing a role, an actor decides to quit acting and live the life of their character instead.

The feature documentary Czechoslovak Architecture 58-89 is the first film that comprehensively maps Czechoslovak architecture of the second half of the 20th century. Brutally beautiful, though brutally neglected. Besides the grey flood of prefabricated blocks of flats, the second half of the twentieth century also saw the creation of exceptional, spiritual and timeless buildings that attracted attention even in the West. In his unique feature-length documentary based on the original idea of Vladimir 518, director Jan Zajícek makes an expedition into the pre-revolutionary Czechoslovak architectural scene. With accounts of leading architects and theorists and impressive shots of the most interesting Czech and Slovak post-war buildings, he creates a plastic portrait of an era where a brave, modern and inspiring spirit flourished alongside the official and the structured.

The murder of an ordinary policeman happened in a provincial town Limansk. Police officer Lyubov Virtanen comes from Moscow to investigate the crime. Her appearance is troubling the local authorities.

Ostap, a young Ukrainian forester, travels to Tashkent to claim a house his aunt left him on Thirteen Poplars Street. There he meets Mastura, a local girl who, charmed by his genuine admiration, offers to show him the city’s hidden wonders. When Ostap departs, he leaves behind not just a house but the memory of a bond that transcends borders.

All the years spent behind the school bench, they were devoted to the dream of flying. And now they are again students, but they are solving completely different problems. Three young daredevils conquer the sky, forgetting about earthly problems and disputes. But the everyday life of test pilots of supersonic fighters is unpredictable and dangerous. A routine training flight overnight can be a harsh test of courage for them. Today, future aces will face a difficult exam, for which life itself will put a mark.

Soviet specialists are building a hydroelectric power station in a Middle Eastern country. To continue the work, it is necessary to carry out an explosion. But no one suspects that an old German ammunition depot is hidden nearby, underground.

Three mice live in a cinema. One day, inspired by the gangster movies, they decide to conduct a grand robbery in a cheese shop...

A tall man and a short man argue about whether the object in front of them is a square or a circle. During the struggle, they push the object. It turns out to be a cylinder.

No one ever met the Hermit, and if he did, he did not recognize him by sight. His arrival always initiates a certain "domino principle", an "avalanche" of events, which changes everything beyond recognition. But in this strange place, called Station, it is already awaited. The search for God, the meaning and way of life, himself and his place in this cruel place are made of the people of Wanderers, those who never close their eyes and continue the eternal search.

The most representative heroes and characters from the traditional tales and legends of the Basque Country, guided by the word. A one-eyed 'tartalo' who's been up all night is swindled by a man because he's got the miracle ring he talks about. A naughty little Kukubiltxo makes the cows and burros talk when he hides in the ear of a donkey. A lying demonic Galtzagorri is unashamed.

Gabelkin and Nikita, two little boys from a northern Russian village, never meet, and their lives appear to move in opposite directions. Gabelkin lives with his alcoholic mother, while Nikita is one of the many at a local orphanage. Gabelkin's teacher struggles with the fact that she can't have any children of her own. She'd like to adopt him, but can't, and does all she can to help. Nikita believes his mother is a woman from a photograph he found on the street.

Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...

A musician cricket fell in love with a beautiful Butterfly. But then a fat Beetle appeared and began to lure her away with his riches.

When the water supply cuts out in a small town, turning the dystopian society into a war zone, three hustlers struggle to find the real enemy before it's too late.

A student, a railway worker and a peasant go on a trip to the Julian Alps and meet people on their way.

Neda and Boyan are travelling in a car to the city. Their memory takes them back to their youth - their unsettled life, their noisy arguments, their vague hopes, picking up individual scenes, episodes, conversations. Their youth had foolishly gone without love. Now they try to resurrect its ghost. It seems to them that not everything is lost yet, everything can be brought back. So there is a deviation from the usual, measured life to themselves, to true feelings.

A film story about a young talented director of children's theatre, who, despite terminal illness, came to work in the regional city.

“All Clear” or the crazy adventures of a redheaded heartbreaker in perestroika.