Known for Acting
Based on a true story. Two fighters of 'Donbas' Volunteer Battalion get locked inside city of Ilovaysk after regular Russian army enters Ukraine and shells the surrounded divisions of Ukrainian Army in the infamous would-be 'green corridor'. The fighters survive thanks to the help of the locals and manage to break out through the front line to reach the freed territory. Taras Kostanchuk who is playing himself as 'Beshoot' is that same Donbas commander who is the prototype of the story. Half of the actors and extras are real 'Donbas' volunteers who survived the battle.
A ruthless story of a loner.
Olga's husband were missing on the East Ukraine, in military events. In desperate to find him, Olga comes to the witches, who tell her that her husband died. Emotionally destroyed woman does not want to live without her beloved, the witches offered her to drink infusion of mandrake and "all will be forgotten and sorrow and life will pass." Olga is ready for everything only to subsided her emotional pain, but the ritual is going wrong, events of this world and after-world are woven into a tight knot, when it is impossible to separate life from death.
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
Two degenerates, the soft sentimental Styopa and the Ukrainian street smart rough and macho Kolya rob the unfinished country houses during a winter's night. Using the alcoholic infused skills of a theif they only manage to steal a satellite dish and a street lamp. At sunrise, they're chased by dogs guarding this area.
Three men, whose neglected lifes seem like poor existence, created for themselves an entertainment: to peep per couples who solitude in the forest. They having fun to watch and then to scare them. And this time they decided to act the same way again, but they found something another, not like they used to...
Ania has a little son and has no husband. To take care of the child she has to work two jobs – dubbing cartoons and... providing sexual services by phone. Ania has a regular customer. He always calls in time and never misses sessions. Once the client calls to say goodbye – he leaves and won’t be able to call anymore. The girl feels sorry, so does he. They seem to have established s good relationship. The girl suggests the last sex. Ania doesn’t have an idea that it can really be the last one for the man – not everyone returns from where he goes...
Kolia spends his time in the striptease-bar and suddenly he recognizes among the dancers his school friend.
Aurora dreams about becoming a talented ballet dancer one day. However, life is not so simple. 12-year-old orphan Aurora Nedelina lives in an orphanage in Pripyat and accidentally becomes a witness to the explosion at the Chernobyl APP. Having received a critical dose of radiation, she is sent to an American hospital where she meets the rich American Russian, Nick Astakhov--the world-famous dancer who had emigrated from the USSR 15 years prior. Nick is talented, successful, young, yet disappointed in life. Meeting up with Aurora helps Nick turn it all around. However, with each day, Aurora fades away a little more. Only something short of a miracle can save her
The film explores the feelings of ordinary people involved in a global conflict – a war. The authors show a simple story of the detention of Ukrainian soldier Mykola by a German commandant from the point of view of Mykola’s grandson, who was born 46 years after the war.
