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Ukrainian films program

6 Ukrainian films

6 films

In solidarity with Ukrainian filmmakers, l’Institut français offers a program of six contemporaries Ukrainian films intended for free screenings, internationally, for 2023 and 2024. The films on offer illustrate the vitality of the Ukrainian film industry for the past ten years, with an increasingly noticeable presence in foreign festivals (Cannes, Berlin, etc.). The selection voluntarily emphasizes the particularly dynamic Ukrainian documentary scene.

Ukrainian films program
  • 2021
  • 1h08
  • last chance
by Masha Kondakova

Hundreds of Ukrainian women have joined the armed conflict against the Russian separatists. Only a few are allowed to go to the front. Three female soldiers report on their fight against the separatists and patriarchal society.

  • 2021
  • 1h08
  • last chance
by Taras Tomenko

Nastya was ten when a missile fired by Russian terrorists on New Year's Eve changed her life forever. It took her father's life and destroyed their house. Nastya's school is only in 500 meters from the front line. War has become commonplace. Just a part of the landscape. The only means for Nastya's family to survive is the scrap metal they scavenge while under fire. Senya is seven years old. He is a first-grader. In the seven years of his life, he has seen seven years of war and not a day of peace. Senya likes to climb on the boney pile to watch the sunset. His stepfather dig graves to earn money for a new suit and backpack for Senya. This is a film about the children who live in the war zone in Ukraine.

  • Drama
  • 2019
  • 1h35
  • last chance
by Nariman Aliev

Ayant perdu son fils aîné dans la guerre entre la Russie et l'Ukraine, Moustafa décide de ramener son corps jusqu'à sa terre natale : la Crimée. Pour cela, il prend la route avec son fils cadet. Un voyage qui bouleversera leur relation. Le destin de cette famille coïncide avec celui de tout le peuple tatar, massivement déporté par Staline en 1944.

  • 2018
  • 1h25
  • last chance
by Alisa Kovalenko

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.

  • 2019
  • Ukraine
  • 1h40
  • last chance
by Antonio Lukich

Vadim is twenty-two. He's a sound engineer and a downer. He's going to Canada in three months. Forever.Before the departure he's assigned to record the voice of a very rare bird, which dwells only in the Transcarpathian mountains of Ukraine.

  • 2021
  • Ukraine
  • 1h20
  • last chance
by Irena Stetsenko

A cinéma-vérité documentary following Dakh Daughters - an intellectual freak cabaret band, created by seven actresses under the roof of Kyiv experimental contemporary theater Dakh. The video diary spans almost five years, following Dakh Daughters since their first show, titled 'Roses' - after their first popular song 'Rozy / Donbas', written long before Donbas region became the war-torn zone of the so called 'Russian Spring'

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