Ukraine in Focus

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Ukraine in Focus

Antonivka

Directed by: Kateryna Gornostai

Produced by: Vika Khomenko | Moon Man LLC

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Антонівка

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90'

Budget: 765 000 Eur

Completed in: 2026

Young couple Aurora and Darko move to live in her grandpa’s house in the post-war de-occupied village. They are taking care of an 88-year-old man, who’s blind. Aurora begins to be tormented by the fear of death. Gradually, it becomes the central theme of their lives and puts everything in its place.

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Archive. Box #64

Directed by: Eva Dzhyshyashvili

Produced by: Natalia Libet | 2Brave Productions

Country of production: Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, Poland

Original title: Archive. Box #64

Language: Ukrainian, German, Swedish, Polish

Runtime: 85'

Budget: 185 000 Eur

Completed in: 2024

The artistic image of the archive and personal stories of characters, who collect and store archival information, are intertwined, showing the experience of accumulating knowledge, building a bridge between the past and the present. However, does knowledge have enough power to prevent new tragedies?

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Consider Vera

Directed by: Marina Stepanska

Produced by: Natalia Libet | Esse Production House

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Consider Vera

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 100'

Budget: 1 253 875 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Nina is a 6-year old curious girl who lives with her mother Antonina in a small village on the outskirts of Kyiv. Vera, a wild woman, appears in their small village and changes their lives dramatically. A film about womanhood in Ukraine in the 80s.

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Fucking Sensitivity

Directed by: Tetiana Symon

Produced by: Alexandra Bratyshchenko | Eleron Pictures

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Грьобана Чутливість

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 100'

Budget: 365 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Yasya, a journalist, can not pull out of the mess her life has become. She must admit to herself that she can’t continue working due to professional burnout. By researching the stories of people from the social sector, Yasia decides to find out what helps these people to keep on doing their work.

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Inheritance

Directed by: Stanislav Bytiutskyi

Produced by: Inna Lastochkina, Valeria Sochyvets |`Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Spadok

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90'

Budget: 670 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own flat. They are madly in love with each other, but one day everything changes. Katya and Anton rip off the old wallpaper and notice a small crack in the wall. The bigger this crack becomes, the more their relationship breaks down.

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Mother

Directed by: Alina Matochkina

Produced by: Eugene Rachkovsky | TABOR Production

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Мати

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90'

Budget: 500 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

There is a great distance between Lida and her mother, both physically and mentally, they live separately and communicate only through a laptop screen. But in order to build a personal life, Lida must first reconnect this bond, and find how to change the old patterns.

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Special Treat

Directed by: Antonio Lukich

Produced by: Volodymyr Yatsenko & Anna Yatsenko (FOREFILMS) | Co-producer: Jessie Fisk (FELINE FILMS)

Country of production: Ukraine, Ireland

Original title: Особливе Cтавлення

Language: Ukrainian, English

Runtime: 100'

Budget: 2 500 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

On the way to her dream of becoming an actress, Sasha cannot be stopped by her mother, war and poverty. Will Sasha be stopped by the spear that accidentally stabbed her on a stupid shootings?

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Ukraine is the capital of everything!

Directed by: Tonia Noyabrova

Produced by: Anastasiia Bukovska, Danylo Kapryukh (Family Production) | Co-producers: Mathieu Ripka (Mille et une productions) & Dmytro Danylov (Coffee Post)

Country of production: Ukraine, France

Original title: Ukraine is the capital of everything!

Language: Ukrainian, English

Runtime: 100'

Budget: 2 100 000 Eur

Completed in: 2024

65 years old Ukrainian playwright Grigory miraculously escapes from the occupied Kherson and became a refugee. He is horrified to discover that the whole Western world is keep living as if there is no war. So he challenges himself to write an outstanding play about war to stop the war.

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Vacuum

Directed by: Yelizaveta Smith

Produced by: Yelizaveta Smith (Tabor LTD) | Co-producer: Oleksandra Kostina (Boson film)

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Вакуум

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90'

Budget: 810 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Archaeologist Marta (32) returns to her hometown to sell the apartment of her long-missing father and finds out that she belongs to a world she wanted so much to forget.

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Women’s Suicide Season

Directed by: Anastasiya Gruba

Produced by: Aleksandra Kostina & Oleg Nosov | Bosonfilm

Country of production: Ukraine

Original title: Сезон Жіночих Самогубств

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 95'

Budget: 710 000 Eur

Completed in: 2025

Simon (26) is a mummy’s boy who has finally decided to become independent and mature. He flees from his obsessive mother to a hermit life in a trailer. But his attempt to escape from one woman leads to an encounter with four others because such a phenomenon as women’s suicide season is coming.