Ukrainian Films 2017 - TOP Features
Ukrainian feature films premiered in 2017 profiled on IMDb.
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- DirectorVyacheslav BihunStarsLesya GongadzeGeorgiy GongadzeLubomyr HusarMost intimate, heartbreaking and inspiring confessions by and about Lesya Gongadze's life and her son's disappearance that prompted a revolution.
- DirectorYuriy KovalyovStarsDanylo KamenskyiEva KoshovaRoman LutskyiThe Stronghold is a Ukrainian adventure/fantasy film based on the same-name book. A present-day schoolboy Vit'ko goes a thousand years into past.
- DirectorOleh BorshchevskyiStarsOlena LavrenyukMykhailo KhomaVladimir GoryanskiyWhen three boneheads decide to make an illegal deal, you will wish for the end of the world.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsKonstantin MokhnachKatya MolchanovaLoneliness dwells in a big city; Kostya, the wedding photographer, dwells there too. At work, he is surrounded by happy people celebrating special moments in their lives. Kostya is about to turn 50, and he is drastically losing everything he used to cherish. Will he cope with his despair and regain the joy of life?
- DirectorPeter BebjakStarsTomas MastalirEmília VásáryováAndrej HrycThere are borders you cross only once... Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
- DirectorZaza BuadzeStarsMykola BerezaOleg ShulgaAleksandr MavritsIn 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of criminal leaders, treachery, and despair. Despite the repression of the prison-camp commander, Danylo finds the strength to resist and makes a desperate attempt to break free, sparking the first rebellion in the camp.
- DirectorMarina StepanskaStarsChristian BorysOleh MosiichukDaria PlakhtiiTwo bewildered young Ukrainians, part of the post-revolutionary generation seeking their place, meet at a pivotal moment and experience a few days of happiness together.
- DirectorVladyslav KlimchukValentyn ShpakovStarsYevhenii YanovychOleh MaslyukElena BorozenetsMaksim, an investing manager, is too busy reading the news in his social network feeds fails to notice his own problems, until the news really start to influence his own life.
- DirectorAnastasiia StarozhitskaMariia StarozhitskaThe story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. 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 along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
- DirectorAndrea MagnaniStarsNicola NocellaLibero De RienzoBarbara BouchetIsidoro's career as a young go-kart driver was interrupted when he began to gain so much weight he was not able to get into the seat any more. One day, his brother turns up with a job offer for him.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsMantas JanciauskasLyja MaknaviciuteAndrzej ChyraRokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.
- DirectorJuri RechinskyStarsValeriy BasselDmitriy BogdanVika FilyukThe story of those who are going through suffering, struggle, loss and despair, trying to find their way out of the depths.
- DirectorArkadiy NepytaliukStarsDmytro HomyakNina NabokaZakharii NovytskyA grandmother, her daughter and granddaughter - three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their hard, lonely and miserable lives have become closely intertwined with love and hate playing a part in their own personal circumstances. A trip to visit the grandmother living in the small, God-forsaken and almost abandoned village of Pryputni becomes a turning point. In just one day, filled with strange and almost tragic events, the women are forced to re-evaluate their lives and break out of the vicious circle of daily routine, dull habits and fusty old ideas. A new and fresh outlook beckons.
- DirectorVladimir LertStarsEvgeniy KnyazevAndrey KaykovVladimir Dolinskiy"Tevye's Daughters" is an authentic tragicomedy directed by Vova Lert. The screenplay is based on the famous play "Memorial Prayer" by Grigori Gorin. This play has been successfully performed for more than thirty years around the Eastern Europe. It is the early XX century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village in Ukraine. He is poor and believes that his daughters have one chance to escape poverty - a successful marriage. Tevye accepts a profitable proposition from a matchmaker, but his beautiful daughters have a different plan. The film was shot at historical locations in Ukraine where the original stories of "Tevye the Dairyman" took place. Tevye moved to the village of Zabirie in about 1873. The villagers are proud that Tevye and his wife Golda became prototypes of stories "Tevye the Dairyman" - the classics of Jewish literature written by Sholom Aleichem. In the 1900s Tevye has built a new house. Villagers recalled Tevye living there and being a kind and a very brave man. The house is still there, looking almost the same.
- DirectorAleksey ShaparevStarsBoris AbramovStanislav BoklanEvgeniy GalichFilm tells an exciting story of a confrontation between talented boxer and criminal patrons of mixed fights MMA.
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsVitalina BiblivYaroslav FedorchukDmitriy TuboltsevInside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsValeriu AndriutaSergey KolesovLiya AkhedzhakovaA woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
- DirectorMark HammondStarsDarya AstafievaGregory HladyTimofey Tribuntsev1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.
- DirectorMark Jonathan HarrisOles SaninBREAKING POINT: The War for Democracy in Ukraine looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
- DirectorGeorg GenouxYelizaveta Smit13 adolescents from a school in Donbas which was destroyed during the war in Ukraine, and subsequently rebuilt, share themselves in front of the camera.
- DirectorTaras TomenkoStarsBoris GeorgievskiyAnna LevchenkoMykhaylo VoznyukThe extraordinary story of Ukraine's "Slovo House".
- DirectorAkhtem SeitablaevStarsMakar TikhomirovVyacheslav DovzhenkoAndrey IsaenkoIt is a story of a several-week-long military duty in September 2014. A group of military volunteers comes to Donetsk Airport for the first time - the Airport has been held by Ukrainians for more than four months of war.
- DirectorAndrew TkachStarsNatalia Payne'Hunger for Truth' shows the power of truth telling in the face of disinformation. The feature length documentary tells the story of Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin's man made famine was ravaging Ukraine. The film interweaves Clyman's truth telling trip during the 1930's with today's conflict in eastern Ukraine, focusing on a forgotten prisoner of war.
- DirectorDmytro MoiseievStarsPiotr ArmianovskiAlla BineevaKonstantin DanilyukAfter losing a close person, Olga is left alone with her grief. With no one to share the loss with, she buys a car and goes on a journey around Kyiv and its surroundings. On her way she meets people who have lost themselves: some through constant lies, others because of a bad choice. Olga helps some of them, but leaves the others in their swamp. At the time of chrysanthemums she has to reconsider her life and loss to go on living.
- DirectorEinar ThorStarsTimotej FesenkoOleg MingalevBoris ShveteA creative profile of the small Ukrainian city Mirgorod and its people. A peaceful place in a country at war.
- DirectorDimitri LavrinenkoZhenya is 45 years old, he lives in Ukraine, and works as a street cleaner. His mother lives in the US and got him a green card. To maintain it, he has to travel to America every year. Zhenya is looking for a woman and wants to get married. He records his life on video. This movie explores the reality of selfies by using two cameras: one belongs to the protagonist, the other is operated by the director. As a result, the two realities merge in one film.