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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.