Ukrainian Films on DAFilms

Shot over summer and winter seasons on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns, the film invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors.

An ironic documentary film about the farewell to the phantoms of the USSR in Ukraine.

The dramatic story of the Kyiv-Kostyantynivka train, with its passengers` unique fates, pain, memories, secrets, hopes, is a history of today Ukraine.

13 adolescents from a school in Donbass which was destroyed during the war in Ukraine, and subsequently rebuilt, share themselves in front of the camera. 13 lives inhabiting an intermediary space, both emotionally and socially.

"No obvious signs." The phrase, which Ukrainian soldiers hear in hospitals, where they come with physiological traumas, needing help. But until their bodies have no injuries, not only doctors, but even society doesn’t notice their problems.

How does it feel to become an occupier without having intended to? Using known as well as hitherto unpublished archival materials from throughout Europe and Russia, we tell a story involving director Anna Kryvenko’s own family about how high politics destroys the lives of ordinary people.

Why can’t people live together in peace ? After centuries of hatred, violence and massacres, Ukraine is at war once again. People continue to kill in the name of the mother country, flag, culture, religion. An opera about a filmmaker’s journey to the land of his ancestors...

Three-years-long observation of Kyiv's moving landscape, condensed into 10 minutes of screen time.

If they'd managed to build a bridge, they wouldn't have to spend money on helicopters...

Landslide represents post-revolutionary Ukraine through a community of people who ‘try to build a new society’ in the cracks and pores of a collapsing social system.

Scenes from the outbreak of Ukraine – Russia war in 2014.

A short film on art and politics...