Feature-length documentary

Fantastic Ukrainians S2 E1 Fashion (2021)

Director: Dmytro Kochnev. Producer Katerina Karmalіta. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian. English Subtitles. Length: 87 min

Bella Hadid, Celine Dion, Kendall Jenner and Dua Lipa make not the full list of world-class stars who choose Ukrainian brands from among hundreds or even thousands of others. The founders and designers of popular Ukrainian brands of clothing, footwear and accessories will talk about how they managed to shine in the global fashion market and create fashion collaborations with industry leaders.

Documentary, Online

Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

Fashion

Fantastic Ukrainians S2 E2 Dance (2021)

Original Title: ФАНТАСТИЧНІ УКРАЇНЦІ. ТАНЦІ Director: Dmytro Kochnev. Producer Katerina Karmalіta. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian. English Subtitles. Length: 120 min

First places in international competitions, participation in dance groups of starsof the first magnitude, staging spectacular performances for dance TV shows,which are adored by millions – all this is about modern Ukrainian choreography.For years, Ukrainian dancers and choreographers have transformed the visionof dance in Ukraine and represented the industry far beyond the country.

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Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

Dance

The War of Chimeras (2017)

Original Title: Війна химер Director: Mariia Starozhytska, Anastasiia Starozhytska. Producer: Sergiy Pudich. Cinematographer: Kyrylo Lazarevych. Genre: Feature length Documentary. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian, English, Ukrainian, Russian Subtitles. Length: 72 min

This strikingly graphic and honest documentary is about the human toll of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine that started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and was Immediately followed by the Russian occupation of parts of southeastern Ukraine. Director Anastasiia Starozhitska and her boyfriend, Ukrainian soldier Valery Lavrenov, are filming what’s happening to them and sharing their feelings with each other. They are together out of frame, and then in the frame. 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

Online

Feature-length documentary

War

Fantastic Ukrainians – S1 E2 Cinema (2021)

Director: Dmytro Avdeyev. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian. English Subtitles. Length: 75 min

Why do they say that Ukrainian cinema has just learned to walk and went to kindergarten. How a film is made, and why the person responsible for the light is no less important than the director. And also: why comedies collect millions in film distribution, and when Ukraine will receive the first Oscar.

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Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

Cinema

Fantastic Ukrainians – S1 E1 Music

Director: Maksym Deliyergiyev. Subtitles: English. Ukrainian. Length: 75 min

Film 1. Music Alyona alyona, The HARDKISS, ONUKA, DakhaBrakha, Alina Pash, YUKO and others. How the Ukrainian music industry has changed over the last 30 years, where TNMK and Alyona Alyona listened to and found hip-hop, how to become a star in Ukraine today. Details on how the Ukrainian sectors of the popular, rock, hip-hop, electronic and folklore scene are organized

Documentary, Online

Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

Music, Portrait

Train Kyiv-War (2020)

Original Title: Поїзд "Київ-Війна" Director: Korney Gritsyuk. Producer: Sergiy Pudich. Cinematographer: Kyrylo Lazarevych. Genre: Feature length Documentary. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian, English, Ukrainian, Russian Subtitles. Length: 72 min

The Train: Kyiv – War” is a full-length documentaryfilm directed by Korniy Gricyuk. The dramaticstory of the Kyiv-Kostyantynivka train, with its passengers` unique fates, pain, mem- ories,secrets, hopes, is a history of today Ukraine.Only 12 hours away from peaceful Kyiv is Kostyantynivka, a small industrial city in the east- ernpart of the country, immediately after which the front begins. This entire timepeople with different characters, social status, political views and beliefs are traveling on the trainside by side. They talk, debate, even quarrel, but speak to each other and go in commondirection. And what`s important, they all want to get

Documentary, Online

Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

War

No Obvious Signs (2018)

Original Titel: Явних проявів немає. Director: Alina Gorlova. Writer: Alina Gorlova. Producer: Maksym Nakonechnyi. Genre: Feature-length documentary. Country: Ukraine. Language: Ukrainian / Russian, English subtitles. Length: 90 min

What is left backstage from the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peacetime, and where does the war stop? This is the story of a woman who returns from war. Talking to psychologists, battling her PTSD and panic attacks, she tries hard to get back to normal life. The documentary shows her path from the beginning of her rehabilitation until she goes back to work.

Documentary, Online

Ukraine

Feature-length documentary

Psychological, Society, War

Mr Pilipenko And His Submarine (2006)

Original title: Herr Pilipenko und sein U-Boot. Director: Jan Hinrik Drevs, René Harder. Writer: Jan Hinrik Drevs, René Harder. Producer: Jens Fintelmann, Thomas Seekamp. Starring: Vladimir PIlipenko. Genre: Feature-length documentary, Portrait. Country: Germany. Language: Ukrainian, English and German subtitles. Length: 90 min

What would you do with a pile of scrap metal, some old spare parts and 30 years to kill in the Ukrainian steppe? Vladimir Pilipenko built a submersible. Life-size. And in the village lake, his submersible worked! But Vladimir has set his sights on something bigger than the local pond. So off he goes. But not before the submersible has undergone rigorous trials, under the fevered gaze of a fascinated village. With trials complete and preparations made, a rickety old grain transporter drags the sub and its creator over steppe and mountains to the Crimean coast. Back in real life

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Germany

Feature-length documentary

Portrait

The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)

Original title: Olegs krig. Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont. Writer: Simon Lereng Wilmont. Producer: Monica Hellström. Starring: Oleg Afanasyev. Genre: Feature-length documentary. Country: Denmark. Language: Ukrainian/Russian, English subtitles. Length: 90 min

Ten-year-old Oleg lives in the eastern part of Ukraine — a war zone that often echoes with anti-aircraft fire and missile strikes. Sometimes these sounds are in the distance, while other times they’re frighteningly close. While many have already left this dangerous area, Oleg remains with his grandmother, who has taken care of him since the death of his mother. They have nowhere else to go. While waiting for the war to end, Oleg enjoys hanging out with his younger cousin Yarikand the older boy Kostia. Together they go on adventures, talk about what makes a real man, and test

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Denmark

Feature-length documentary

Coming-of-Age, War