Melanka

A whimsical combination of the well-known adventures of the protagonist of a Russian folk tale with characters and memes from Ukrainian politics. The dramatic story suddenly comes to a happy end.

A new hat, a trip through the forest, stuffed buns and a fateful meeting. A granddaughter tells her grandma about the New Jerusalem and Big Babylon. She points at the map to show her the Old World, the New World, New York, and where the sea ends. They get a visit from a Goon, and the Wolf becomes the cleaner of people.

The twins Dima and Sveta study at a private school called Callege, guarded by the Ambal security agency. A sponsor for the roof renovation arrives and participates in a celebratory event organized in his honor. Dima is taken to hospital in an ambulance. Feeling the pressure on their freedom and dignity, the kids decide to transfer to a remote learning school.

A man parks his car in the middle of a playground. The kids are outraged and reprimand him, but the man won’t back off and calls the police to punish the kids.

At night, the family sleeps and dreams. The husband finds himself in the Jurassic Period, the wife dreams of herself and her daughter receiving draft cards, the son faces an entrance to a monastery in his dream, and the daughter dreams of geopolitical change on the world map.

Preschoolers decide to recreate a famous act of toppling monuments. The confrontation is accompanied by slogans from the anti-corruption and anti-populism rhetoric.

Danylo is receiving an education which has been paid for by 'dollars from under the mattress', but he faces a problem on the job market. Stepan prefers a working class profession, which guarantees stability in life under certain circumstances. This is an educational story of two friends whose lives turned out very differently due to their choice of occupation and higher education.

A classic conflict from the Ukrainian literature in the school curriculum, but in a contemporary context. It presents the relevant topic of the effect of a person's emotional state on their health and touches upon the issue of family relations marked by inequality.

The present day. A meeting at the Department of Intra-Uterine Education. A conflict on Lumpen Street. The generation of the young and inspired struggle for an environmentally conscious position and the responsible treatment of the environment.

The old man had a dog. For many years, the dog lived with him and protected him loyally. Abandoned in the street, the old dog finds a new home and a loving family, while the old man finds himself alone and out of his home.

The poacher Ivan Populistov flies to Africa. But his trip in search of unethical and primitive entertainment does not go as planned.

Masha and Sveta are preparing a birthday present and decide to teach Old Karga a lesson. The dramatic issue of the loan trap, which you can easily end up in due to the simplest everyday needs of an average family, looms in the background.

Apartment thieves, along with pickpockets, blocked the road.

A fairy appears to the old man and his old lady and offers to fulfill any wish, but on the condition that their neighbour will get twice as much. The old man hesitates and cannot make up his mind, so the right to make a wish is given to the old lady.