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Alina Gorlova
Born January 1, 1992 · Zaporizhia, Ukraine (age 34)
Alina Eduardivna Gorlova (Ukrainian: Алі́на Едуа́рдівна Го́рлова; b. 1992) is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, director, and screenwriter. She was inducted into the Ukrainian Film Academy in 2017 and was named as an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2021. She graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and TV. She directs documentaries but also experienced in making fic…
Known For
The Diaper Cake · 2021The Diaper Cake
★ 5.22021
MovieDrama
Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with the irreversible changes in their lives and with each other. Meanwhile, the diaper cake silently sits in the room, like a time bomb.
No Obvious Signs · 2018No Obvious Signs
★ 8.52018
MovieDocumentary
What is left backstage of the heroic videos of our warriors in Ukraine? What do they have to face, one on one, in peaceful life, and where does the war stop?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom · 2015Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
★ 7.92015
MovieDocumentary
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
Militantropos · 2026Militantropos
★ 7.52026
MovieDocumentary
The film does not have a main character, but instead explores the experience of war through the prism of the collective and the individual: those forced to flee, those who take up arms, those who lose their homes or are left to live among the ruins. The film shows people's reactions to aggression and violence, to the change in the space in which they live, and their adaptation to a new reality.
Fragments of Ice · 2025Fragments of Ice
★ 10.02025
MovieDocumentary
The director’s father, Soviet figure skating star, went on tours to the imaginary West and filmed his life in the transition period of the 80s and 90s. Rediscovering his amateur VHS archive, a director explores his vision of paradise against the changing historical background. 15 videotapes, the spirit of traveling to the West. The birth of a daughter. The collapse of the USSR. Fragments of Ice is a journey of growing-up for society, for the father, and for the daughter. A journey that is ongoing.
Solitude · 2019Solitude
★ 4.02019
MovieDrama
During a large storm, the sea flushes a Second World War bomb to the beach of a port city. The city authorities decide to evacuate the area. Khrystyna, a 45-year-old single woman, has no choice but to leave the place. The gathering point for the people is the city theatre. There she meets a young man Illia, a stage worker, who is responsible for the evacuated people. There is an understanding and intimacy between them that frightens both.
This Rain Will Never Stop · 2022This Rain Will Never Stop
★ 6.82022
MovieDocumentary
This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is framed by the seemingly eternal flow of life and death.
Pray for Ukraine · 2015Pray for Ukraine
2015
MovieDocumentary
Three difficult month of Maidan! Ukrainian people united together at Kiev's historic square called Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) came out to voice theire feelings and emotions against the Yanukovich regime. Lots of souls were lost, lots of destinies were changed! So much still to come... Ukrainian Revolution of dignity.
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