Andriy Donchyk

‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.

This fairy tale tells about famous Ukrainian warriors Cossacks, about Paradise and hell, Christmas and evil forces. The Devil makes an agreement with St. Peter. If he can capture the best Cossack warrior and hold him until Christmas night, he will be able to wipe all the Cossacks off the map. The script for the movie is based on Sashko Lirnyk's story "About an old Cossack, a Christmas devil, four horns and a Cossacks".

While watching Dovzhenko's Earth a young man imagines himself a painter in a Ukrainian village in the 1930s. All is pastoral idyll until the authorities arrive with Soviet wrath for tradition and religion.

"Snowblink", inspired by a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, portrays the honeymoon of a young French couple who are crossing the Ukraine. The couple's journey through the snow-covered steppes leads them to a face-to-face encounter with the machinery of bureaucracy.

Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.

15-year-old Artur learns that his twin brother, who has cancer, wrote a death note. Artur tries to save his brother, but what could be stronger than illness?

The heroes of this film - Anna, Mikhailo and Mykola - are trying to find their happiness in difficult life circumstances. In a love triangle, passion is adjacent to betrayal, suffering is adjacent to sin, and forgiveness is adjacent to death. The heroes find themselves in a situation where happiness is simply impossible - it has been stolen from everyone.