CINEMAID UKRAINE CHARITY FILM MARATHON
The CinemAid Ukraine Charity Film Marathon has begun in various cities around the world. CinemAid Ukraine is a series of charity screenings of Ukrainian films abroad, initiated by the Ukrainian State Film Agency together with the Ukrainian Film Academy, the Watch Ukrainian! association, Ukrainian Motion Picture Association, UkrKinoFest, Union of Entrepreneurs of the Television and Film Industry, Nareshti, CF "Doors" and Center of Creative Industries Development.
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LOOK INTO THE FILM CATALOGUE
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DOCUMENTARY (FEATURED, SHORT & SERIES)
All films are available for charity screenings
TRAIN: KYIV-WAR, DIR. KORNEY GRITSYUK
Full-length documentary, documentary, drama, war
Available format: Mp4
The Train: Kyiv – War is a full-length documentary film directed by Korniy Gricyuk. The dramatic history of the Kyiv-Kostyantynivka train, with its passengers’ unique fates, pain, memories, secrets, hopes, is a history of today Ukraine. Only 12.5 hours away from peaceful Kyiv is Kostyantynivka, a small industrial city in the eastern part of the country, immediately after which the front begins. This entire time people with different characters, social status, political views, and beliefs are traveling on the train side by side. They talk, debate, even quarrel, but speak to each other and go in a common direction. And what’s important, they all want to get to peace. This film is the voice of ordinary people, the search for dialogue and the path to a common future, where everyone's voice will be heard.
THE WAR OF CHIMERAS, DIR. ANASTASIIA STAROZHYTSKA, MARIIA STAROZHYTSKA
Full-length documentary, documentary, war
Available format: Mp4
At the heart of the storyline is the story of the journey to the Lavra call sign, Valery Lavrenov, who survived, and his girlfriend, Anastasia, the film's director, to the front lines and an attempt to live together after all they saw and experienced. He was a volunteer at the front, she came there immediately after the battle. He was trapped in the Ilovay boiler, lost his closest brothers, trying to understand the essence of war and love, traveling through broken cities. And both of them openly tell each other what they feel during the hostilities, the exit from the boiler, the attempt to live together and a new, already common, journey to the front.
HEIGHT 307.5, DIR. YEVHENІYA CVIETANSYKA, MARINA POLYSHINA
Full-length documentary, documentary, war
Available format: Mp4
A story of several days and a heroic defense of the strategic height of 307.5 with the supporter Valera, who played one of the most prominent roles in the Debaltz campaign. The protagonists of the film are the direct combatants, Sergeant Borys Lysy and Commander Alexander Zozuliak.
A movie about our boys' heroism, at the time, they were all soldiers, the only fraternity that kept their Height shoulder to shoulder until the last breath.
SAMURAI WAY, DIR. MARIA YAREMCHUK
Short documentary, documentary, war
Available format: Mp4, DCP
A Kharkiv resident goes to war under the pseudonym Samurai, first as a volunteer and then as a fighter in the Armed Forces. On these thorny paths, he meets and loses relatives and friends and once again reflects on what the struggle for his state is worth. It is easy to get to war, but difficult to return. The most difficult battle of the Samurai is still ahead: it is a battle with a diagnosis of PTSD and the search for a place in a peaceful life ...
DEPORTATION 44-46, DIR. OLESYA MORGUNETS-ISAENKO
Full-length documentary,documentary, historical
Available format: Mp4
During 1944-1946 more than 480,000 Ukrainians had been forced to leave the territory of modern northeastern Poland - Kholmshchyna, Nadsiannia, Pidliashshia, and Lemkivshchyna. The eyewitness tells the story of deportation and recalls terrible conditions in which she and other Ukrainians were taken from Poland to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
FRONTIER. GRUBESHIV OPERATION, DIR. OLESYA MORGUNETS-ISAENKO
Full-length documentary, documentary, historical
Available format: Mp4
The film dialogue reproduces the thoughts and views of the UPA insurgent and the Polish partisan AK (Army of Krajova). These battle-hardened warriors waged a fierce debate about the history of their peoples in the twentieth century and, in particular, between 1939 and 1946, when they fought bravely against the invaders and were tortured by the Soviet NKVD and the German SS. In the horrific swirl of endless battles on all fronts of the UPA and AK, they collided with each other. But after years of mutual resentment, Ukrainians and Poles finally realized the terrible external imperialist threat, understood each other and began to fight the invaders together. On the night of May 28, 1946, an attack was carried out on the NKVD-controlled city of Hrubieszów, one of the largest military operations carried out by the UPA in conjunction with AK successors, the Polish rebels from Vinnitsa (Will and Independence).
BALLROOM KING, DIR. SVІTLANA LІSCHINSYKA
Full-length documentary, documentary, parable, ballet
Available format: Mp4
Ballroom King is a documentary, devoted to the crucial importance of educational and cultural activity, conducted in the villages and settlements. The movie focuses on the problems of bullying in the most of the schools, too. Its slogan: Our victories could never happen without those who believed in us. This documentary is structured as a philosophical parable about the person's lifelong path. In our youth, we, with the support of our loved ones and teachers, acquire mastery, then we share it with people, and then we teach others, and finally, there is nothing left, and only the trampled shoes are our only belongings.
The film tells the stories of three protagonists, which are intertwined in one story about the Master: a rural school pupil who dreams of ballroom dancing – Makar, world champion in ballroom dancing – Alex Ivanets, and his first teacher – Petro Horhol, who lives in a small Ukrainian town of Poltava.
HISTORY OF THE WINTER GARDEN, DIR. SIMON MOZGOVYI
Full-length documentary, documentary, life, society, generation
Available format: Mp4
The main story is based on the history of Floriculture pavilion and its old workwoman, Mrs. Valentina Voronina, who has maintained this space and invested her own life, when changes suddenly come. She has been asked to retire after forty five years of work. But Mrs. Voronina doesn’t agree with it, because she believes all of the plants will die without her. At the same time, a group of mysterious radioestesists appeared and found a powerful channel of positive energy in front of the entrance to the greenhouse.
SALT FROM BONNEVILLE, DIR. SIMON MOZGOVYI
Full-length documentary, documentary
Available format: Mp4
Two Ukrainian guys, Nazar and Max, came up with the idea to make the world's fastest Izh-49. They spend all their time in a small garage on Sviatoshyn preparing a motorcycle, and overcome hundreds of kilometers and difficulties on the way to Boneville, Utah, USA. This huge dried-up salt lake is the world's main speed record-breaking platform for thousands of people to decide who will be the new champion. And it is there, on the other side of the world, that each of them understands why he is here.
A SUNDAY IN STRASBOURG, DIR. LANA BERNDL
Full-length documentary, documentary
Available format: Mp4
On Sunday, 1943, on a day off, Martha secretly wants to go with her French prisoner friend to Strasbourg. In the morning, Ivan leaves the yard of the German owner and goes as an “ostarbeiter” to the East, in the direction of his homeland. The Italian resistance frees Nicholas from the forced labor camp and leads him to a detachment of Garibaldi. What will happen to them next? War knows no regrets, but memory is also merciless. Victims of two dictatorships: Hitler and Stalin, with a memory that never dies...
DACHA, DIR. OLEKSIY SMOLYAR
Full-length documentary, documentary
Available format: Mp4
This documentary explores the problems with medical treatments for kids with cancer in Ukraine. It follows the work of the unique facility named Dacha, which accommodates families that have kids with cancer from all over Ukraine.
Dacha is a place where love and hope live, despite all the hardships. Cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence, and here we can see how miracles happen because of the hard work and sacrifice of all the good people who are helping these sick kids.
STARS ON THE EARTH, DIR. SNIZHANA GUSAREVYCH
Full-length documentary, documentary, inclusive
Available format: Mp4
Oneday, 16 children, who did not know each other before, gathered at the Rehabilitation Center to take part in a 15-day inclusive film and art workshop and create a fairy tale about themselves.
FAMILY WORK, DIR. VALERІY BALAYAN
Full-length documentary, war
Available format: Mp4, DCP
It tells us a story about three families from the Eastern Ukraine, stereotypically Russian-speaking part of the country. When the Russian military intervention started in Ukraine in 2014, all families members decided to defend their homeland from the Russian aggressor. It has become a family work for them.
NOT ALONE, DIR. SNIZHANA GUSAREVYCH
Full-length documentary, documentary, life, society
Available format: Mp4, DCP
It’s a story about people, who lost themselves in their life, they became homeless, alcohol and drug-addicted, but thanks to the Community “Emaus-Oselya” they were able to socialize and find their place in life, their home and family. It’s one of the first organizations in Ukraine that started to work with homeless people. But it’s not just a place where the person could to eat or to get clothes, it’s the community of mutual assistance. The main idea of the film is to provide an example of the “Emaus – Oselya” that it’s easy to help, that status isn’t important in life, it’s important to remain a human in any situation. “Helping others, help yourself” – this is the main film’s purpose.
THE MAIN ROLE, DIR. SERHIY BUKOVSKI
Full-length documentary, documentary, life, art
Available format: Mp4
The story of the mother of the film director Sergei Bukovsky, the famous Ukrainian actress Nina Antonova. About a hundred roles – big and small. She was recognized by the public, she was a celebrity. This is a very personal story. Funny and sad. About the diluted identity overshadowed by a man, her filmmaker-husband, my father... About my family where life and films were inseparable, and where those involved often mistook the alternate reality for real life. About dependency and newfound freedom... About the change of fate... About new roles, and new hopes...
THE LIVING, DIR. SERHIY BUKOVSKI
Full-length documentary, documentary
Available format: Mp4
The characters of the film were children when everything was taken away from their parents. This film tells the story of how they survived the Great Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33. It also tells the story of British journalist Gareth Jones, whose truthful reports about the Ukrainian tragedy were never heard in the West. How did so many countries show such indifference to other people’s suffering? And how does a society rise back to its feet and become master of its own land? Only the living can rise again.
UKRAINE: WHEN COUNTDOWN BEGAN, DIR. SERHIY BUKOVSKI, SVІTLANA ZALOHA
Full-length documentary, documentary, historical
Available format: Mp4
A film investigating the illegal tobacco trade that thrives in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. This is an inside look at the multibillion-dollar business controlled by organized crime. For more than three years, reporters have worked in Eastern Europe to uncover ways to smuggle cigarettes and show the true value - in monetary terms and in lives - of this seemingly crime-free crime. The same gangs that sell cigarettes sell people, drugs, and control prostitution. This award-winning film is an appeal to politicians, law enforcement, customs and at the same time to smugglers and tobacco traders.
V. SILVESTROV, DIR. SERHIY BUKOVSKI
Full-length documentary, documentary, biographical, composer
Available format: Mp4, DCP
The documentary “Silvestrov,” dedicated to this brilliant Ukrainian composer, is far from a traditional biopic about a prominent person. It is an observation, a confession and, most of all, a story of great talent set against the backdrop of uncertain times.
Of course, film authors pay tribute to the composer’s creative techniques: avant-garde of the 1960s, forced into underground at the times of socialist realism, postmodernism (his main
obsession during the 1970s), metaphorical music and contemporary pieces that charm audiences around the world. But it is also a personal story of a genius mind with its oddity, curiosity and emotional depth.
IVAN'S LAND, DIR. ANDRII LYSETSKYI
Full-length documentary, documentary, art, artists
Available format: Mp4, DCP
Ivan Prikhodko is one of the last folk painters in Ukraine. He is self-taught, he lives in a village, and his art is simple and naive. Will he give up his small village house for a glamorous life in the city, will he swap the banks of the Dinper, fields and gardens for art galleries and a society of critics and agents?
NATIONAL MUSEUM, DIR. ANDRIY ZAGDANSKY
Full-length documentary, documentary, art
Available format: Mp4, DCP
“Museum” is a portrait of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the gray neoclassical building that stores, preserves and exhibits Ukrainian art and Ukrainian history as well.
For half a year filmmakers observed and documented the inner life of the museum – from installation and subsequent removal of the exhibition of the XVII century icons from the communist demolished monastery to the exhibition of Alexander Bogomazov, the unknown to the world genius of Ukrainian avant-garde.
The narrative arc of the film goes from the Ukrainian Baroque to the Ukrainian avant-garde and echoes both the story of the Ukrainian art and the history of Ukraine.
THE LIVING FIRE, DIR. OSTAP KOSTYUK
Full-length documentary, documentary, life, generations, traditions
Available format: Mp4, DCP
A four-year-long project documenting three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds in their struggle to keep the age-old trade alive in the face of contemporary changes.
VASILIY YERMILOV THE CONSTRUCTOR, DIR. OKSANA SYHAREVA
Full-length documentary, documentary, biographical
Available format: Mp4
The documentary «Vasiliy Yermilov the Constructor» is a series of sketches for a portrait of an exceptional Constructivist artist Vasiliy Yermilov, an acquaintance with a an extraordinary personality from an era of great change. A cosmopolitan, a humanist, and an innovator that lived and worked in a totalitarian society, Vasiliy Yermilov embodied the ideals of a significant era in Ukraine's history, eventually «designing» the style of that era.
INVISIBLE BATTALION, DIR. ALІNA GORLOVA, IRYNA TSILYK, SVITLANA LISHCHYNSKA
Full-length documentary, documentary, war, society
Available format: Mp4, DCP
A film project about the participation of Ukrainian women in the war with Russia.
Six female stories told by three directors who will show the war as it is. The project began with a sociological survey of women's participation in the war against the Russian occupation army, followed by a series of calendars with photographs of women at the front, and later a film.
FANTASTIC UKRAINIANS, DIR. MAKSYM DELIERGIEV
Documentary, series, documentary, culture, society, arts
Available format: Mp4, DCP
Fantastic Ukrainians is a series of documentary films about contemporary Ukrainian music, cinema, literature, and visual art. Each episode of the cycle investigates the national art context, and the heroes tell about the creation of a modern art product.
THE ART OF REBIRTH, DIR. VINCENT LEFEBVRE
Documentary, feature, social, current affairs, human rights
Available format: Mp4
Popasna is a small city in Eastern Ukraine. It has been devastated by war. Much of the population has fled the fighting which still threatens the region. Yet, every day, children continue to attend one of the few schools still able to teach basic lessons. The street artist Seth is creating a large fresco on the school’s wall. The children share their view of the world, hopes, and dreams with him through the medium of drawing and painting...
TREASURES OF VERONA, DIR. SVІTLANA LІSCHINSYKA
Full-length documentary, detective
Available format: DCP
There are two worlds in the film: the courtly and sophisticated world of art and the pragmatic world of people in shape. The viewer is able to get acquainted with the latest methods of operative-search work from the author himself, and art critics tell about the value of the stolen paintings and about the importance of fine art for humanity in general.
WE ARE SOLDIERS, DIR. SVITLANA SMIRNOVA
Documentary
Available format: Mp4, DCP
Tree Ukrainians volunteers, injured during the war with the Russians and the separatists, are treated at the military hospital of Kyiv. Three generations, three social environment, three different regions, Dmytro, Oleksii and Anatolii are recovering, annoying, hoping and preparing their future
RUTHENIA. RETURN OF THE CODE OF THE NATION, DIR. ANTONІNA HOTFRІD
Full-length documentary, historical
Available format: Mp4, DCP
About the history of writing in Europe and the creation of a unique Ukrainian font Ruthenia.
The film uses materials and results of many years of research of the candidate of historical sciences Alexander Bosy, author's achievements of Vasily Yakovich Chebanyk and materials of Dmitry Lisenbart's project Graphics of the Ukrainian Language.
FEATURED FILMS
All films are available for charity screenings abroad
KRUTY 1918, DIR. OLEKSII SHAPAREV
Full-length, action, drama, history
January 1918. Bolshevik detachments are rapidly approaching Kiev, seeking to establish Soviet power on Ukrainian lands. The city is filled with Trotsky's agents, there is agitation of the proletarians. Mykhailo Hrushevsky publishes IV Universal – on protection of Ukraine. In the defense of the homeland, all combat-capable UNR troops are becoming. The Kruty Railway Station, through which the Bolsheviks must pass through the capital, will be protected by 400 young men, students and cadets. Among the defenders are Andrew and Alexei Savitsky, sons of the general.
The film is based on real events.
EASTMAN, DIR. ANDRІY ІVANYUK
Full-length, road movie, war
This is a kind of portrait of a person for whom the war in eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of Donbass, a bold man of forty-five years, a family man, a regular worker. The director is a young man of twenty-six years, single, Westerner, intellectual. This is an ordinary day for ordinary soldiers. These are events and people you can usually meet there. These are the relationships between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience, but also a kind of cultural exchange of different social strata and mentalities. These are the births of new, special traditions.
CENSORED, DIR. ROMAN BROVKO
Full-length, biographical
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960's, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
NOBLE TRAMPS, DIR. OLEKSANDR BEREZAN
Full-length, action, comedy
A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: "To love Lviv, women and jokes". To make their life bright, they resort to various adventures, while remaining positive heroes. Unexpectedly the batiars become guardians of a young beauty and their adventures are gaining new momentum. The film's events take place in Lviv in 1938-1939.
THE INGLORIOUS SERFS, DIR. ROMAN PERFІLYIEV
Full-length, adventure, comedy, action movie
1844. Fleeing the persecution of the Emperor of Japan, a samurai enters the territory of Ukraine. By chance, he meets a young Taras Shevchenko, whom he decides to teach the techniques of traditional Japanese martial arts. Together, the heroes begin to fight for the freedom of the Ukrainian people.
JUST SEX, NOTHING PERSONAL, DIR. OLGA RIASHYNA
Full-length, comedy
When Serhiy asks his girlfriend to marry him, he is met with a sound rebuff and an unflattering critique of his poor performance in bed. Broken-hearted and with his world almost falling apart, Serhiy takes a macho decision to spend the New Year holiday with his friend, Vasyl in Prague. After a fairly dismal night in a strip club, Serhiy meets striptease dancer, Diana, who offers to show him the way to become a sex super hero. But his ex-girlfriend seems to be standing in the way of realising his dream. We follow Serhiy's further hot - and ever hotter - adventures in Prague.
CAROL OF THE BELLS, DIR. OLESYA MORGUNETS-ISAENKO
Full-length, drama, historical
Immortalized as one of the most scintillating and enlightening Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world.
The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families , Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered by invaders, first in the Nazi then the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.
Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy of "Carol of the Bells" will be everlasting.
UNBRIDLED, DIR. ANDRII ZAIETS
Full-length, action
During the Day of Kamianets-Podilsky, a delegation of the Council of Europe visited the city. In the center of the plot is a hero who came to work on his first day of internship. During the solemn session of the City Council, the session hall and the entire administrative building are seized by a group of terrorists, and among the hostages is the protagonist's sister, who works here as a assistant of the mayor. The hero decides to take control of the situation and rescue the hostages, based on his previous experience of service in the VIII Khmelnytsky Special Purpose Battalion.
LOVERS IN KYIV, DIR. ІLLYA VLASOV, VALERІY BEBKO, OLEG BORSHCHEVSKY, DENIS GAMZINOV, ARTEM SEMAKІN, OLGA GIBELINDA, TARAS TKACHENKO
Full-length, сomedy, melodrama, horror, love story
Almanac of short films in the style of "Paris, I love you", "New York, I love you". A lot of funny, melodramatic, horror lines about the feelings, romantic experiences of young people of Northern Europe. Story about the city of Kyiv and its inhabitants.
DZIDZIO CONTRABASS, DIR. OLEG BORSHCHEVSKY
Full-length, comedy
Life on the border can be called easy only with a stretch. This is not by hearsay know DZIDZIO, Yulik and Lamour. They all have dreams, the achievement of which depends on the amount of money in your pocket. But in the border areas to get legally the right amount is not always easy, but the main characters do not intend to give up. Their path to enrichment is the transportation of smuggled goods to neighboring States.
11 CHILDREN FROM MORSHYN, DIR. ARKADІY NEPYTALIUK
Full-length,detective, comedy
Everyone knows that Morshyn was built on a meteorite crash site, which is rich in a rare metal osmium. Wanting to earn easy money, Snizhana decides to deceive everyone and take possession of a valuable object. Anything could have happened if 11 children from Morshyn had not gotten in her way. Uniting into a single front for the sake of a greater goal, they start fighting injustice.
HADJIBEY FORTRESS, DIR. KOSTYANTIN KONOVALOV
Full-length, Historical, Adventure
Available format: Mp4, DCP
The end of the eighteenth century. The Ottoman Porte and the Transdanubian Sich are fighting Russia for the northern Black Sea coast. The last fortress is held – Hadjibey. The Transdanubian Cossacks send Cossack Andrew to the Turkish commandant of the fortress of Ahmet Pasha with a letter containing a secret message of extraordinary importance concerning the war. Ahmet Pasha has a great influence on the sultan, so he must send this letter by sea to Istanbul – the sultan himself. But the fortress is captured by Russian troops, Ahmet Pasha falls into prison. His only daughter, the beautiful Fatima, manages to escape captivity. Andrew and Fatima meet in difficult circumstances, and have to decide how to proceed.
At this time, the Georgian traveler Yoram arrives at the port of Hadjibey – he brought a unique vine to grow a vineyard. He also has an old cup given to him by his uncle Timosh. This cup once belonged to the famous D’Atranyan and, according to Uncle Timosh, this thing should save Joram’s life.
On the Black Sea coast, the brave and honest Yoram immediately finds himself in a difficult situation with Russian soldiers, and agrees to help Andrew and Fatima. He has another important reason – Yoram meets the Ukrainian beauty Katreya, whose father, Mr. Danylo, is also in a Russian dungeon. Together, young people develop and implement a desperate plan…
WHY I'M ALIVE, DIR. VІLLEN NOVAK
Full-length, drama
Available format: Mp4, DCP
Based on Yevhen Mytko's story “Now I am a Turk, not a Cossack…”.
Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shores of the Sea of Azov. Seventeen-year-old Frosya and Lenchik fall in love with their first passionate love: they dream of getting married. But Frosya is Ukrainian, and Lyonchyk is Jewish, it is very difficult for the girl's father to be related to her. Alexei Ivanovich is a good man, but a kind of Orthodox believer. How can he give up his beliefs and let a non-believer into his family? Frosi's pregnancy. The first day of the war. A pot on the front. Occupation. A bombed-out dance floor, denunciations, looting, fascist terror against Jews, everyone is shot, even children of mixed blood…
ANIMATION FILMS (FEATURED AND SHORT)
All films are available for charity screenings abroad
EMPATHY, DIR. MARІYA SAPATOVA
Short animation
A young man carrying a ruined brick house on his head is forced to live in a society where it is forbidden to have ruins on the head. He carefully hides his defect with a high hat and finds the only consolation in his beloved. But one day, by a terrible coincidence, his secret is revealed, and the ruins, which were lovingly guarded, are revealed under the threat of wrecking...