An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue documenting the atrocities of the Russian invasion, drawn from Chernov's daily dispatches and personal footage.
4th Edition
UFFB 2023
18 Results
Main Program
20 Days in Mariupol
An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue documenting the atrocities of the Russian invasion, drawn from Chernov's daily dispatches and personal footage.
Tina and Megi, two young women from vastly different social backgrounds, become roommates by chance. Their shared flat becomes a space of mutual support despite their contrasting worlds.
Georgian Film Series
A Room of My Own
Tina and Megi, two young women from vastly different social backgrounds, become roommates by chance. Their shared flat becomes a space of mutual support despite their contrasting worlds.
Set in the 1920s Ukrainian village of Babylon, this directorial debut by actor Ivan Mykolaychuk examines the clash between the old and new political worlds. Premiered internationally at the Locarno Film Festival.
Retrospective
Babylon XX
Set in the 1920s Ukrainian village of Babylon, this directorial debut by actor Ivan Mykolaychuk examines the clash between the old and new political worlds. Premiered internationally at the Locarno Film Festival.
As her parents' marriage falls apart and her homeland faces the abrupt end of Soviet rule, teenager Kira must step into adulthood and face the crumbling of her childhood.
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Do You Love Me
As her parents' marriage falls apart and her homeland faces the abrupt end of Soviet rule, teenager Kira must step into adulthood and face the crumbling of her childhood.
18th-century Carpathian Hutsuls face foreign rule as the Dovbush brothers rise as mountain outlaws — Oleksa chooses to fight for his people's freedom while his brother pursues wealth.
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Dovbush
18th-century Carpathian Hutsuls face foreign rule as the Dovbush brothers rise as mountain outlaws — Oleksa chooses to fight for his people's freedom while his brother pursues wealth.
An intimate observation of war as multiple generations of Ukrainian civilians abandon their homes and are evacuated via the director's volunteer aid van — a collective portrait of people united by their search for safety.
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In the Rearview
An intimate observation of war as multiple generations of Ukrainian civilians abandon their homes and are evacuated via the director's volunteer aid van — a collective portrait of people united by their search for safety.
Documentary examining the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, investigating the truth of the tragedy through visual evidence and testimonies, including the butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilots' bodies.
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Iron Butterflies
Documentary examining the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, investigating the truth of the tragedy through visual evidence and testimonies, including the butterfly-shaped shrapnel found in the pilots' bodies.
Set in 1996, five months before the moratorium on capital punishment, a police detective and forensic psychiatrist investigate a colleague's murder while confronting long-forgotten memories, capturing a nation teetering between its Soviet past and newfound independence.
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La Palisiada
Set in 1996, five months before the moratorium on capital punishment, a police detective and forensic psychiatrist investigate a colleague's murder while confronting long-forgotten memories, capturing a nation teetering between its Soviet past and newfound independence.
Identical twins — Kolya, a drug dealer, and Vasya, a law enforcement officer — living contrasting lives in Lubny travel to Luxembourg to see their sick father one last time, questioning family bonds and memory.
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Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Identical twins — Kolya, a drug dealer, and Vasya, a law enforcement officer — living contrasting lives in Lubny travel to Luxembourg to see their sick father one last time, questioning family bonds and memory.
Georgian Film Series
Magic Mountain
Documentary · Georgia, Poland · 2023
Mariam Chachia, Nik Voigt · 73'
Abastumani, a unique resort in Georgia and former tuberculosis sanatorium, must yield to the country's richest man — explored through the director's personal connection to a place that once represented solidarity and mutual care.
Georgian Film Series
Magic Mountain
Abastumani, a unique resort in Georgia and former tuberculosis sanatorium, must yield to the country's richest man — explored through the director's personal connection to a place that once represented solidarity and mutual care.
Presents the invasion of Ukraine as a war of memory, identity and truth, employing live music, painting, street art and cinematography to examine what it means to create art and go about ordinary life during wartime.
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Rule of Two Walls
Presents the invasion of Ukraine as a war of memory, identity and truth, employing live music, painting, street art and cinematography to examine what it means to create art and go about ordinary life during wartime.
Georgian Film Series
Self-Portrait along the Borderline
Documentary · Georgia · 2023
Anna Dziapshipa · 50'
A Georgian-Abkhazian director revisits her abandoned house in occupied Abkhazia after more than 20 years, using family archives to reconstruct an intimate portrait of her family while reflecting on identity, trauma and loss.
Georgian Film Series
Self-Portrait along the Borderline
A Georgian-Abkhazian director revisits her abandoned house in occupied Abkhazia after more than 20 years, using family archives to reconstruct an intimate portrait of her family while reflecting on identity, trauma and loss.
A peasant who left for Canada in search of a better life returns home to Bukovyna with his granddaughter Orysia, who discovers her own national identity and falls for a local boy, played by director Ivan Mykolaychuk himself.
Retrospective
Such Late, Such Warm Autumn
A peasant who left for Canada in search of a better life returns home to Bukovyna with his granddaughter Orysia, who discovers her own national identity and falls for a local boy, played by director Ivan Mykolaychuk himself.
A landmark of Ukrainian poetic cinema weaving mystical elements and folklore to symbolize the nation's journey for identity and liberation — ranked 8th among the 100 best films in Ukrainian cinema history.
Retrospective
The White Bird Marked with Black
A landmark of Ukrainian poetic cinema weaving mystical elements and folklore to symbolize the nation's journey for identity and liberation — ranked 8th among the 100 best films in Ukrainian cinema history.
Follows farmer Hanna, postwoman Maria and biologist Nelya in the Carpathian village of Stuzhytsia, between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland, as they navigate social reality and loneliness amid harsh winters.
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Three Women
Follows farmer Hanna, postwoman Maria and biologist Nelya in the Carpathian village of Stuzhytsia, between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland, as they navigate social reality and loneliness amid harsh winters.
- Under the Endless Sky | Oleksandra Dzhiganska | 4'
- Troia | Andriy Naumenko | 3'
- Mariupol. A Hundred Nights | Sofiia Melnyk | 7'
- Spring | Mykyta Lyskov | 2'
- Kyiv-Uzhorod | Dar'ya Terekhova | 2'
- The War That Changed Rondo | Olha Havrylova | 16'
- Deep Water | Anna Dudko | 6'
- The War That Is Always Around | Irina Harkavets | 1'
- The Responsible Hero | Roman Lysenko | 5'
- Unnecessary Things | Dmytro Lisenbart | 14'
- Paper or Plastic | Nata Metlukh | 8'
- Without You I'm Nothing / Okean Elzy | Oksana Kurmaz | 3'
- Silent Witness | Anhelina Bilous
Short Films
UA Shorts I: Bridging Gaps
- Under the Endless Sky | Oleksandra Dzhiganska | 4'
- Troia | Andriy Naumenko | 3'
- Mariupol. A Hundred Nights | Sofiia Melnyk | 7'
- Spring | Mykyta Lyskov | 2'
- Kyiv-Uzhorod | Dar'ya Terekhova | 2'
- The War That Changed Rondo | Olha Havrylova | 16'
- Deep Water | Anna Dudko | 6'
- The War That Is Always Around | Irina Harkavets | 1'
- The Responsible Hero | Roman Lysenko | 5'
- Unnecessary Things | Dmytro Lisenbart | 14'
- Paper or Plastic | Nata Metlukh | 8'
- Without You I'm Nothing / Okean Elzy | Oksana Kurmaz | 3'
- Silent Witness | Anhelina Bilous
- Waking Up in Silence | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi | 17'
- I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv | Daryna Mamaisur | 17'
- Three Windows on South West | Mariia Ponomarova | 8'
- The Lights of Kyiv | Serhii Tykhoniuk | 16'
- One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas | Marta Smerechynska | 8'
- I Did Not Want to Make a War Film | Nadiia Parfan | 17'
Short Films
UA Shorts II: No Time Like Home
- Waking Up in Silence | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi | 17'
- I Stumble Every Time I Hear From Kyiv | Daryna Mamaisur | 17'
- Three Windows on South West | Mariia Ponomarova | 8'
- The Lights of Kyiv | Serhii Tykhoniuk | 16'
- One Aloe, One Ficus, One Avocado and Six Dracaenas | Marta Smerechynska | 8'
- I Did Not Want to Make a War Film | Nadiia Parfan | 17'
Five Ukrainian teenagers who grew up amid the war in Donbas since 2014 embark on a Himalayan expedition seeking hope for their futures — until Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 devastates their prospects.
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We Will Not Fade Away
Five Ukrainian teenagers who grew up amid the war in Donbas since 2014 embark on a Himalayan expedition seeking hope for their futures — until Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 devastates their prospects.
