Mykhailo Illienko

Young children go on adventures. Sometimes their imaginations take them far from home, and then suddenly, out of the blue, a child finds themselves alone in an unfamiliar world, on an unfamiliar street, surrounded by strangers. That’s a problem. But it doesn’t just happen to children.

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There are songs that kill. The authors of these songs have millions of lives on their hands. One such song is featured in the film. It is well known that even the deadliest poison, in microdoses, can save a life—but in doing so, it takes far more. This poison is wiping out generations.

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Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.

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Grandfather and grandson are playing a chess game. Which of them will turn out to be the genius of the game?

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Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.

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A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and Ukraine, all within a short span of time. When World War II comes, various family members choose different masters; some even choose to work for the Soviets. War, struggle, marriages, births, deaths--all these events punctuate the story of this large family.

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Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune.

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Young children go on adventures. Sometimes their imaginations take them far from home, and then suddenly, out of the blue, a child finds themselves alone in an unfamiliar world, on an unfamiliar street, surrounded by strangers. That’s a problem. But it doesn’t just happen to children.

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One dawn, one girl, one light bulb. The rest is hope.

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There are songs that kill. The authors of these songs have millions of lives on their hands. One such song is featured in the film. It is well known that even the deadliest poison, in microdoses, can save a life—but in doing so, it takes far more. This poison is wiping out generations.

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The hero experiences an addiction which he tries to overcome.

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Among the living beings who like to hide from their owners, today in the first place - a mobile phone. It's easy to find if you have another cell phone. If there is no other - the search can turn into a detective, drama, comedy, absurdity. In order to unravel this detective, not turning it into a drama and smile at the absurd, the hero of the film "Gift" needed one April night and the help of half the village.

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The battle is carried on not only at war with the aggressor. The clash of worldviews happens all around us and it never stops. The enemy is not always across the border.

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There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.

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The story about one episode in young family life. Film shows an ordinary life situation in which the daughter via an emotional conversation with her dad appears to be wiser and more adult then her parents. The novel must turn your attention to the fact that children's words have more truth then it seems and the most important skill is to learn to listen and hear each other, especially in a family.

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Mom and daughter after shopping in the supermarket go to the exit and the mother remembers that she forgot to buy buckwheat. While the daughter is waiting for her mother with shopping, she hears a voice that reminds the child that her father is at war and that he loves buckwheat. A girl who doesn't like buckwheat tells her mother that she wants to try it again.

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Easter. Staircase. The guy is waiting for the elevator, but time and time again misses and does not come. Until the elevator stops, the door opens, and there she is.

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The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.

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A collection of short stories based on real-life situations revealing the characteristic features of some people with humor. Some of the characters are methodically trying to achieve a different result, while making the same action over and over again. It is interesting that someone even does it. Not typical twists of plot lines and brightness of the images supplement the film.

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The film takes place in Kyiv during the day. Daniel Pritulyak, serving foreigners as guide, invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak.

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The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.

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Sergey meets girls at the sea that he, allegedly working in a prestigious profession (he is either a pilot, flying abroad, or an employee of Vneshtorg), easily succeeds. He is interested in a woman sitting alone on the beach with a parrot in a cage. She is not particularly inclined to get acquainted, but eagerly talks about her son - a round honors student who was even shown to a professor from the Novosibirsk Academgorodok. Here, Sergei meets a terribly impudent guy who knows who he actually works.

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A young boy tries to earn some money by "renting" his dog to the film studio.

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The elephant had a dream - to become white. And this dream almost came true: the artist gave the elephant a whole jar of white paint. The good elephant shared it with his friends - a bear cub, a hare, a mouse. But for him, the leftover paint was enough only for his tusks...

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