Lyuba Knorozok

An unfinished abstract film by Florian Yuriev that the author worked on in the 1970s and was thought to be lost. The materials were found, restored and edited after Yuriev's death by director Oleksiy Radynski, preserving the original idea and visual images of Yuriev.

Florian Yuriev is an architect, artist, violin maker, theoretician and poet. At the age of 90 he has to master another, completely new skill. In order to save his architectural project, Kyiv’s ‘Flying Saucer’, from turning into part of a shopping mall, Florian Yuriev launches a campaign against the arbitrary power of developers in the capital.

During the Russian occupation of the Chornobyl Zone in early 2022, a local informant is clandestinely filming the Russian troops. We hear the workers of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station discuss their experiences during the Russian military takeover of their facility - an act of nuclear terror which threatened another global disaster at this site. Past and present catastrophic scenarios intertwine in this macabre episode of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A raw portrait of a group of rebellious youth thrust into adulthood too soon, navigating the wreckage of the Soviet regime set in the late 1990s in Kyiv.

90-year-old architect Florian Yuriev is facing the destruction of his magnum opus: an avant-garde concert hall set to be repurposed as a shopping mall. Florian confronts the powerful real estate developer behind this investment project, and uses his visionary ideas to capture an unlikely victory. This is an architectural documentary with infusions of science fiction and horror film.

In the late 1980s, a team of Ukrainian filmmakers made several expeditions to the remote corners of Siberia. In 2022, during Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, previously unknown footage from these trips was discovered in Kyiv. This valuable find becomes the starting point for the film essay about Russian imperialism, environmental destruction and oppression of the indigenous population in Russian colonies.

When the Russian troops occupied Ukraine’s Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, their activities were documented by CCTV cameras. The film is based on that footage, recorded at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

The story of Nina Branovytska, the mother of Ukrainian soldier Ihor Branovytskyi, one of the defenders of Donetsk Airport. In 2015, Ihor was captured during the withdrawal from the airport, he was tortured and executed by a leader of pro-Russian militants while being in captivity.

The elite Kyiv Naval Political College operates in a city without access to the sea. The first Soviet aircraft carrier, the Kyiv, became the flagship of the Northern Fleet. The school's students, future political officers of the Soviet navy, go on a long navigation voyage; meanwhile, at their alma mater the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy opens. Focusing on the history of the institution's changing ideological functions, Under the Sign of Anchor explores the complex and sometimes paradoxical connections between war and culture, the Soviet past and the present. The film is based on materials from film archives from the time of the collapse of the USSR and the first years of Ukraine's independence.

The film analyses the relationship between violence, politics, religion and insurgency by exploring the edges of the Kyiv protest movement and exposing its uncanny underside.

The film recreates gradual transition of the society from peaceful life to the state of war. Shot in March-April 2014 in Donbas, it follows the transformation of social protest into an armed revolt, supported by covert foreign invasion. The film doesn't focus on individual stories, instead showing the mechanisms of inflaming the war that lead to the social collapse.

A three-year-long observation of Kyiv’s moving landscape, condensed into 10 minutes of screen time.

While cruising through the nocturnal streets of Kyiv, Anna, a woman who stops and films passing men, unexpectedly encounters a soldier. They start to discuss the men she observed.