Serhiy Zhadan

The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother’s sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with people who love and believe him and need his defense.

A film about the boundaries we set among ourselves, so as not to speak on complex topics and not to quarrel in difficult times.

After overhearing a quarrel, Witold, a new resident of the communal apartment, meets a young writer Serhiy. In no time, Serhiy becomes an extraordinary figure in Witold's life, revealing new and exciting sides of his personality. This short film is a quirky and absurd tragicomedy about artistic life and its pitfalls. Witold is based on the short story called My Nightmares by Serhiy Zhadan.

A young man named Roma arrives in the city and settles in with Dasha, an acquaintance of his mother. Dasha is a single mother who works constantly, and her 12-year-old son Amin spends most of his time living with his grandparents. Roma tries to find a reason to make love to Dasha.

Three friends have to urgently find the fourth, who has disappeared in an unknown direction, and inform him about his stepfather's suicide. In one of the apartments, they find an acquaintance nicknamed "Cocoa" who tells them about the whereabouts of the missing Sasha Carburetor. In the same apartment, under the influence of light drugs, Vasya the Communist and another character in the film named Zhadan listen to an evening program about the British band Depeche Mode.

A hotel in a frontline town. A man and a woman, both military personnel, who have recently met, decide to spend a night of love together. Awkwardly communicating with each other, they learn that neither of them drinks alcohol and both take pills. She takes sedatives, he takes sleeping pills. The man clumsily tries to create a romantic atmosphere, but fails. The woman reassures him, and they kiss. During a tender kiss, the woman becomes frightened by this intimacy and goes to take a shower, leaving the man alone in the room.