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Falling (2017)

Original title: Strimholov. Director: Marina Stepanska. Writer: Marina Stepanska. Producer: Olena Yershova, Volodymyr Filippov, Alla Ovsiannikova. Starring: Andriy Seletsky, Dasha Plahtiy, Oleg Mosiychuk. Genre: Feature, Drama. Country: Ukraine. Language: Russian and Ukrainian, English, French, Bulgarian, Italian, and Romanian subtitles. Length: 96 min

Anton, a former enfant prodige composer who couldn’t handle his obsession with music, returns to Ukraine after a long period in rehab for drugs and alcohol. Katia, an ordinary girl living on the outskirts of Kyiv, is planning to move to Berlin with her boyfriend, a German photographer. Two bewildered lost young people who meet at a crucial point in their lives for a few days of happiness together in a shattered society in search of a new national identity.

Fiction, Online

The Rain Project (2016)

Original title: Proekt doschu. Director: Oleg Chorny. Writer: Oleg Chorny. Producer: Svitlana Zinovyeva. Starring: Gamlet Zinkivsky. Genre: Short documentary. Country: Ukraine. Language: Russian and Ukrainian, English subtitles. Length: 24 min

2016. Mariupol, Donetsk region. Ukraine. 20 km from the engagement line between government troops and combined Russian-separatist forces. Gamlet Zinkivsky, a painter, comes to the city to make a series of street artworks in the urban space.

Art, War

Not Now (2020)

Original Titel: Не Зараз. Director: Andrew Liulko. Writer: Andrew Liulko. Genre: Drama, Short Film. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian, English subtitles. Length: 15 min

A young man is refusing to believe that he has cancer and is procrastinating till the very last moment to tell his girlfriend about the scary but obvious symptoms. Once he realizes that he has very little time left, he turns his hesitation into his strength – proposes to marry his girlfriend, spends more time with dad dying of cancer and agrees to get the surgery! Now it’s up to doctors’ whether the love or cancer wins.