INHERITANCE
Katia and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own flat. They are in love with each other, but their happiness is suddenly threatened: behind the walls of the flat there seems to be an evil lurking, about to burst out.
Year: 2026
Duration: 100'
Production: СUC
Author and director Stanislav Bytiutskyi
Type: fiction
Producers: Valeria Sochyvets, Inna Lastochkina
Films in development
Curtain
Violinist Arina plays in an orchestra, and her boyfriend Denys is a conductor. They have a codependent relationship. She discovers that Denys is having an affair with a younger lover. During a party at a music competition, she is raped by a stranger. She does not dare to tell her partner about it. One night, a drunken Denys becomes extremely aggressive. She gathers all her strength to escape from him. Unfortunately, the city is filled with sounds of alarm, and explosions are heard nearby.
Рік: 2026
Duration: 90'
Production: CUC, VIATEL
Author and director: Valeria Sochyvets
Type : fiction
Producers: Inna Lastochkina, Viktor Shevchenko, Halyna Kryvorchuk
From Radvanka
In the small city of Uzhhorod in western Ukraine, in a Roma settlement called Radvanka, Zhanna documents her everyday life.
Through her chronicle, we get to know the inhabitants of the Roma settlement, discover how the Roma confront the difficulties of war and modernity, which they face without the skills to write and speak Ukrainian. The camera in Zhanna's hands becomes her way of communicating with the world.
Рік: 2026
Duration: 70'
Author and director: Tomi Hazhlinski
Type: documentary
Producers: Valeria Sochyvets, Sabina Asadova
Ashes settling in layers on the surface
Based on diaries and photographs found in the houses destroyed during the Russian war against Ukraine, the film captures the stories of Mariupol, including that of the director’s family. It centers on the value of freedom and human life itself over the nonsensical statements repeated by totalitarian regimes, as witnessed throughout the history of the Azovstal plant.
Year: 2025
Duration: 80'
Author and director: Zoya Laktionova
Production: CUC, 2BraveProduction
Type: documentary
Producers: Natalia Libet, Valeria Sochyvets, Victor Ede, Petra Seliskar
Hard Sub
Amir, an immigrant who has been living in Ukraine for a long time, works as a translator. He is trying to save his relationship with his little daughter after a complicated divorce. Living through the identity crisis, he is lost in a whirl of one-night stands and parties. Anticipating war, his ex-wife is taking their daughter to Europe. Amir is forced to a speedy decision: should he stay, go back to his motherland, or become an immigrant all over again.
Year: 2027
Duration: 85'
Author and director: Novruz Hikmet
Production: CUC, PlotlessFilm, GogolFilm
Type: fiction
Producers: Valeria Sochyvets, Julian Gerchow
Warrior
After several years on the frontline, Sasha, a female sniper in the Ukrainian army, returns to her home village, determined to forget the war and return to a life of peace. But she learns that her father, a forester, has disappeared because of his resistance to illegal loggers who are destroying the century-old Carpathian forest. Alone against all odds, she decides to bring justice.
Рік: 2027
Duration: 80'
Author and director: Masha Kondakova
Type: fiction
Producer: Valeria Sochyvets
Driving Lessons
Wartime Kyiv, Ukraine. A father helps his daughter to practice driving. They are the only relatives to each other and have a strong connection, but many disagreements in their opinions. The driving lesson ceases to be ordinary when the father is issued a summons at a checkpoint.
Year: 2024
Duration: 16'
Author and director: Anastasiya Gruba
Type: fiction
Production: CUC, Salt cinema, PackGauz
Producers: Mira Oyetoro, Viktor Shevchenko, Valeria Sochyvtes, Denys Satanovskyi, Sabina Asadova
Bogrács
On a beautiful fall day a construction worker decides to have a lunch break, a young girl takes care of her elderly grandmother, and a film director tries to edit his feature debut.
Meanwhile, air defense forces are shooting down targets in the sky over Kyiv.
Year: 2024
Duration: 16'
Author and director: Vyacheslav Turyanytsya
Type: fiction
Producers: Inna Lastochkina, Philip Sotnychenko, Valeria Sochyvets
Unavailable
Escaping from shelling, Serhii temporarily moves to the west of Ukraine. When his mother decides to evacuate from the occupied hometown, they lose telephone contact.
Year: 2025
Duration: 15'
Автор ідеї і режисер: Kyrylo Zemlyanyi
Type: fiction
Producers: Inna Lastochkina, Nikolai Yaroshenko
Times New Roman
Against the backdrop of events related to russia's
full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a reporter Roman
that copes with alcohol problems and a midlife
crisis cannot make a choice between his lover
and his wife, trying not to repeat the mistakes of
his parents and save all existing ties. Against the
backdrop of problems related to the war, a midlife
crisis, alcohol problems and personal life, the
protagonist cannot break the circle of constantly
recurring events.
Year: 2027
Duration: 105'
Author and director: Philip Sotnychenko
Type: fiction
Producer: Valeria Sochyvets
The Shadows
This is a film about homelessness, but not about hopelessness. The difference between them it’s just one letter. But at the same time it’s an abyss. This story began three years ago as an observation of the photographer Sasha Chekmenyov during his work with the homeless. It was supposed to be a film about another world that we wish to ignore.
Рік: 2027
Duration: 80'
Author and director: Polina Kelm
Type: documentary
Producers: Valeria Sochyvets, Ringailė Leščinskienė