Cicuta

Well-to-do and rich friends are faced with an entertainment problem. There is nothing for them to be happy about. The resulting crisis is obvious to all, so the friends agree on the following game: every Wednesday, one player gives the other a task which is to be carried out by any means. The task can be rather strange, absurd, cruel, or impracticable. The next week, the two players trade places. The only restriction is that the task should not be life-threatening or result in committing a crime. The outer world as well as the friends' inner lives change as the weeks go by. Instead of looking for high-level, magnificent entertainment, the friends develop a taste for fantastic attractions – and ulti­mately rediscover joy in life.

Ukraine, 2020. After the introduction of visa-free travel, everyone left abroad. Only eight people remain at home: a model, an engineer, an accountant, an IT specialist, a blogger, a prince, a Chinese spy, and a separatist. A Canadian director of Ukrainian descent arrives in the empty country and tries to understand who these people are and why they stayed.

Imagine that several cameras have moved from the outskirts to the center, capturing the most interesting and informative moments of city life in different parts of the city along the way. The characters of the film are its viewers: natives of Kyiv, provincials who have come to seek their fortune, capitalist tourists — in short, those who make life in the city so vibrant. Every day we find ourselves in a variety of situations and solve a multitude of issues, from renting an apartment in the center to finding a notary in Novobelychi — urban trends, tastes, prices, priorities, routes, the labor and real estate markets, the past, present, and future.

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer. His father, a principled police major, chases porno makers, not suspecting that one of them lives in his own apartment. Hoodlums and girls from good families, corrupted policemen, petty dealers find themselves in a luring and scary world of porno.

What is the most important moment of the present? I am "here and now" as though in certain environment. The main heroine Poli teaches people how to live here and now - in present continuum. She holds workshops - communicating with everyone separately, but in one space without boundaries. Five groups with five issues. Will she be able to help them? Or is she trying to help herself?

Six novellas present eight people who resolve to commit suicide. The stories interweave moments from disparate lives, each born of despair and urgent choice.

The heroine can not find her happiness. The girl decides to meet all her ex-boyfriends to remember what she dreamed of. 5 meetings, 5 former, 5 different circumstances. What can a woman do to gain her happiness?

On his birthday, the famous dentist falls into the hands of cruel nurses, called from the mysterious subconscious by voluntary anesthesia. The plot of the picture covers only one day in the life of the characters, real and imaginary. The heroes find themselves in a cycle of events, in rented apartments. Where the worlds get closer…

The story of the accidental meeting of a couple who, according to all life stereotypes, would never have met. The main character Kit breaks up with a girl, an eccentric young person who does not share his views on life. After a violent and exhausting quarrel, she throws him out of the car right on the move, the circumstances lead the Cat to the hotel. A stranger appears in his field of vision.

A documentary about the German Nazi occupation of the Vinnytsia region from 1941 to 1944, because it was in Vinnytsia in 1943 that the Nazis tried to justify the crimes of the Holocaust by accusing so-called Jewish agents of the NKVD of killing repressed Ukrainians during the Vinnytsia tragedy of 1937–1941. The film is based on the revelation of the age-old wisdom and interethnic tolerance of the Ukrainian people during the terrible years of war, in particular how people ended up in Jewish ghettos and concentration camps, and their Ukrainian compatriots, despite the threat of death, saved their lives.

A series of 26 short stories, each featuring a protagonist intent on meeting someone at a Kyiv nightclub. These stories depict a real-life scenario of club encounters, where the goal is to “pick up” - achieve sexual satisfaction swiftly for the thrill of it - all captured by a hidden camera.