Valentin Silvestrov

A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film was heavily cut due to censorship by the Soviet Government.

Short animated musical performance of a work by Valentin Silvestrov based on Taras Shevchenko's verses, combined with animation of each line of the poem by different young directors.

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.

Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband’s double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of.

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

During an experiment, an accident occurs at the Institute of Epidemiology. To prevent the virus of a deadly disease from penetrating the walls of the laboratory, five employees remain in quarantine. In this situation, people reveal themselves in the most unexpected ways.

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

On a rough and tumble construction site for a new factory, the conversation flows and love blooms for trio Lyuba, Misha, and Kolya. In the liminal space of their workplace, they build material and intangible connections.

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.

This is a film about an outstanding composer of our time, unknown to a wide range of listeners in our country.

A documentary about Hryhoriy Havrylenko. After watching the film, Yuriy Illienko told the film's cameraman Volodymyr Pika: "Man, this is brilliant!".

The Ruhr Piano Festival is one of two stops on the German tour of pianist Hélène Grimaud and baritone Konstantin Krimmel. In Dortmund, the duo has chosen to combine lieder by Johannes Brahms with those by Valentin Silvestrov, a Ukrainian composer in exile, in a program imbued with rare emotional power.

Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters and becomes a highly respected guide while trying to escape colonization.

Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, they don't want to get out...

With the war in Ukraine, Odessa Classics festival has found a temporary home in the Estonian capital. On the programme are works by Pärt, Mozart and Britten performed by Alexey Botvinov and Daniel Hope and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Olari Elts.

The hero of the film, academician Sergei Vasilyevich Lunin, director of the Kiev Research Institute of Informatics, is working on the implementation of the Unity project in the enterprises of a single department. According to his calculations, this global information network should significantly reduce the number of intermediate instances and, accordingly, the decision-making time. Lunin has opponents. Despite a sharp deterioration in health, the hero goes to the Novogorsk Tractor Plant and there he finds out the real reason for the downtime, and, consequently, the reason for hiding the data. Knowing that he has only six months to live, Lunin abandons the operation and does everything possible to protect his project.

Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.

The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle “you - for me, I - for you” has not yet been approved by the car depot team...

Sea elements are fraught with many secrets. No crew is safe from emergencies that may occur at sea when they enter the open sea. The film tells a story that happened with the crew of an old tugboat "Dolphin". The ship fell into a terrible storm and, unable to overcome weather conditions, stood on stones. The crew led by the captain promptly leaves the ship, only the engineer Samokhin remains on the ship.

United in their support for Ukraine, violinist Daniel Hope and Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov perform a concert for peace from Dresden's frauenkirche. Composers featured include Johann Sebastian Bach , the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov and Russians Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Rachmaninov.

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

A miniseries about the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Bahrianyi.