Since 2014, in the aftermath of the Ukrainian revolution, and parallel to the war raging in Donbass, Ukrainian cinema has undergone an unprecedented development, both in fiction and documentary. While the country in (re)inventing its identity, its political and social model, what are the main patterns of the new Ukrainian cinema? Does the Ukrainian cinema contributes to the modeling of new civic values? What does Ukrainian films reflect about a society on the move?

The exposition created in dialogue with the documentary vision of the filmmakers, offers the audience to look at the Ukrainian reality reproduced in the language of contemporary artist such as Kostiantyn Zorkin, Yevheniy Nikiforov, Oleksandr Navrotskyi, Yulia Chervinska, Ihor Chekachkov, Valeriy Miloserdov, Maria Plotnikova, Serhiy Radkevych.

A season in the life of Alina, a poor 20-year-old girl from Kyiv who has a chance to be saved by football. She's about to join the Ukrainian national team, but life challenges her once again: her mother dies leaving two young siblings. Now, Alina must choose: football or family.

The film's main idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. Life promised to become a symphony of work, joy and welfare, but turned out to be a delusion and a manipulation.

Waves of the Black Sea are crashing against the pier, sun is shining and the sky is blue.Medals and orchestral instruments are glittering in the sun, but every child has their personal destiny - with music or without it. It is a touching story about children's jazz band.

It is a documentary about people who live in the river delta Danube in Vilkovo (the Bessarabia region, shared by south-eastern Romania and south-western Ukraine). Their existence is hard and has a lot of obstacles - not to perish in the fog, not to die from the cold, not to get trapped under the ice - but they feel happy.

Is it necessarily to put new heroes on old pedestals and follow the footsteps of the old ideologies? During the discussion the participants of the project "See Ukraine: An Empty Pedestal" will present a variety of approaches to the search for modern Ukrainian identity

The exposition created in dialogue with the documentary vision of the filmmakers, offers the audience to look at the Ukrainian reality reproduced in the language of contemporary artist such as Kostiantyn Zorkin, Vitaliy Kokhan, Yevheniy Nikiforov, Oleksandr Navrotskyi, Yulia Chervinska, Ihor Chekachkov, Valeriy Miloserdov, Maria Plotnikova, Serhiy Radkevych.

This is the story of a woman who returns from war. Talking to psychologists, battling her PTSD and panic attacks, she tries hard to get back to normal life. The documentary shows her path from the beginning of her rehabilitation until she goes back to work.

It is a documentary about people who live in the river delta Danube in Vilkovo (the Bessarabia region, shared by south-eastern Romania and south-western Ukraine). Their existence is hard and has a lot of obstacles - not to perish in the fog, not to die from the cold, not to get trapped under the ice - but they feel happy.

The film's main idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. Life promised to become a symphony of work, joy and welfare, but turned out to be a delusion and a manipulation.

Documentary film about a children's jazz band in Ukraine directed by Roman Bondarchuk, author of Ukrainian Sheriffs.

When war came to their home, thousands of Ukrainian women took it upon themselves to become soldiers and lay their lives on the line for peace and freedom in their country.

The film's main idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. Life promised to become a symphony of work, joy and welfare, but turned out to be a delusion and a manipulation.

Documentary film about a children's jazz band in Ukraine directed by Roman Bondarchuk, author of Ukrainian Sheriffs.