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UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARY FILMS Introduction 4 Works in Progress 6 Completed Films 24 Contacts 46 Looking for State Film institutions in Ukraine? 47 Looking for Production Service in Ukraine? 48 Want to Distribute Your Film in Ukraine? 51 Looking for Film Festival in Ukraine? 52 Index of English Film Titles 53 Index of Original Film Titles 54 Index of Directors 55 / introduction PYLYP ILLIENKO, GENNADY KOFMAN head of the Ukrainian and the Docudays UA team State Film Agency As a result of society’s demand for information, as well as the overall This year has been a breakthrough for Docudays UA, breaking the record development of the film industry, the social value of documentary film for the number of entries submitted by Ukrainian filmmakers, as well making is growing with each passing year. as the number of films made in co-production with Ukraine. Some of the films have already been recognized by juries of prestigious More and more Ukrainian documentaries are receiving international international film festivals, while others will hopefully get a successful film awards and recognition. For the first time in the history of Ukrainian festival run later on. cinema, the Television Academy Honors special prize was awarded to a film co-produced with Ukraine, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, This edition of the catalog not only includes innovative documentaries and the Ukrainian submission for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language made in Ukraine in 2016 and films which we expect to see in the near Film, Ukrainian Sheriffs, is also a documentary. future, but also film projects in various stages of production. If you’re already planning to produce your film in Ukraine, contacts of producers, I hope the present catalog will showcase modern Ukrainian documentary documentary studios, establishments, and services can be found inside. filmmaking to foreign filmmakers and will invoke their will to work together. After all, the publication includes a selection of our best We’re confident that this publication will help festival programmers and most creative films, showing the reality of Ukraine in both objective and distributors to showcase unusual stories, amazing people, and inventive way. and unknown Ukraine to viewers around the globe. Moreover we hope that industry representatives will be able to find future film making partners and professionals capable of turning your work in Ukraine into a success. 4 5 / works in progress ASKANIA director ANDRII LYTVYNENKO COMPANY OF STEEL / Zalizna sotnya director YULIIA HONTARUK DELTA director OLEKSANDR TECHYNSKYI ENCHANTING, BEGUILING, AND THE BEGINNING OF ALL BEGINNINGS / Charuyushchiy, Zovushchiy i Nachalo Nachal director TETIANA KHODAKIVSKA ENJOY YOUR FLY director MARIA STOIANOVA THE FIRST COMPANY / Persha sotnia directors YULIA SHASHKOVA, YAROSLAV PILUNSKIY HOME GAMES / Domashni ihry director ALISA KOVALENKO THE LOST WORLD / Zahublenyi svit director LIDIYA HUZHVA MICHAEL AND DANIEL director ANDREI ZAGDANSKY RABIES / Skaz director ANASTASIYA MAKSYMCHUK ROSES / Rozy director IRYNA STETSENKO UKRAINIAN WIFE PROJECT director POLINA MOSHENSKA UNDERWATER director OKSANA KAZMINA THE WAR OF CHIMERAS / Viyna khymer directors ANASTASIIA STAROZHYTSKA, MARIIA STAROZHYTSKA WINTER GARDEN’S TALE / Istoriya Zymovoho sadu director SIMON MOZGOVYI 6 7 / works in progress Askania Company of Steel UKRAINE/ 2016/ 54-120’ / Zalizna sotnya UKRAINE/ 2017-2018/ 90’ language estimated budget UKRAINIAN 1,970,000,- UAH genre languages CURRENT AFFAIRS, HUMAN UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN INTEREST, SOCIAL ISSUES genre looking for DRAMA, SOCIAL ISSUES FINANCING, CO-PRODUCER, DISTRIBUTOR, SALES looking for AGENT DISTRIBUTOR, SALES AGENT director director ANDRII LYTVYNENKO YULIIA HONTARUK producer producers IHOR SAVYCHENKO The story revolves around the biggest nature reserve in Europe, ANNA PALENCHUK When Russia invaded Ukraine, a small militia unit named Azov was scriptwriter scriptwriter located in the Ukrainian village of Askania-Nova. More than YULIIA HONTARUK created to defend Ukrainian territory. The unit is made up of different 100 years ago, the reserve was founded by the German colonist ANDRII LYTVYNENKO people: patriots, metal-heads, and football fans. Few of them had Friedrich-Jacob E.Falz-Fein. He created the system that still directors of photography directors of photography combat experience but they managed to create one of the most YURI GRUZINOV, SLAVA continues to function. But the film is also a comedy about DENIS STRASHNYI, effective military units in Ukraine. They call themselves warriors YEVHEN BROHIN TSVETKOV, PAVEL ZMEY, the people who live in this village, immersed in the care SERHIY STETSENKO and want to die on the battlefield like Scandinavian Vikings, yet of the wild nature. The action unfolds in the ruins of Soviet composer the same time, they despise death because they yearn for eternal pompous infrastructure, once Askania was the Soviet Union pride… ANTON BAIBAKOV rest in Valhalla. Despite an intensive schedule of tactical military Now the remaining enthusiasts are trying to survive and keep training, they still find time for aggressive haircuts and tattoos… sound directors the reserve from complete collapse, yet they cannot agree on how ANDRIY NIDZELSKIY, The main characters are as different as night and day, yet war to develop their common cause and everyone values their own ANDRIY ROGACHOV has brought them together. But will they manage to adjust after opinion above anyone else’s… returning to civilian life? Will they find their place among the living? ANDRII graduated from the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University YULIIA HONTARUK was born in 1987 in Kyiv. She has a degree of Theater, Film, and Television in 2012 with a degree in Film Directing. in Thermal Energy and Process Engineering from Kyiv National In 2013, he received the Gaude Polonia grant and studied at Wajda Technical University of Ukraine. From 2007-12 she studied film School’s Documentary Workshop in Warsaw. Andrii is the creator directing at Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film, and Television and one of the directors of the anthology “Beyond Euro” (2013, University. Since the beginning of Euromaidan, Yuliia has been Docudays UA). He also participated in the anthologies Kyiv from the member of the #Babylon’13 creative association. She is currently Sunrise to Sunset (part of the international project The World from making a new full-length documentary feature related to the war Sunrise to Sunset, 2011), Ukraine_Voices (2014, goEast, Eastern in Eastern Ukraine. Neighbors, Cinedoc, LET’S CEE), and Euromaidan. Rough Cut (Jihlava IFF, Selected Filmography: Ten Seconds (2016), Alcoholic (2013), IDFA, Artdocfest). He is currently working on a film about Oleg Sentsov, Kaleidoscope (2011) a Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned by the Russian government. Selected Filmography: Ukraine Displacement: Rise to the Challenge (2016), Dnipropetrovsk. Again and Forever (2015), Military Boots (2014) Production Company: Production Companies: 435 FILMS, Lab Docutoloka Directory Films LLC #Babylon’13 10-A Filatova St, office 2/14, 01042 Kyiv, Ukraine 45A Nyzhnioyurkivska St, 04080 Kyiv, Ukraine 9 Yaroslaviv Val Str, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine +380673237515, [email protected] Ihor Savychenko Oleksandra Bratyshchenko +38 044 361 44 26, [email protected] +380631298144, [email protected] 8 9 / works in progress Enchanting, Beguiling, Delta and the Beginning of all Beginnings UKRAINE, GERMANY/ 2017/ 52’, 90’ / Charuyushchiy, Zovushchiy i Nachalo Nachal UKRAINE, UK/ 2016/ 80’ estimated budget estimated budget 187,000- $ 140,000,- € Language(s) languages UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN ENGLISH, UKRAINIAN, ITALIAN, GEORGIAN genre CREATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY genre ART, CREATIVE, looking for DOCUFICTION ADDITIONAL FINANCING, DISTRIBUTOR/SALES AGENT looking for SALES AGENT, FESTIVALS director OLEKSANDR TECHYNSKYI Baltic Sea Forum, 2015 director producers TETIANA KHODAKIVSKA East Doc Platform, 2016 GENNADY KOFMAN, YULIA In a delicate and humane manner, this film touches upon a very SERDYUKOVA producer serious issue: how to stop fearing death while being in love with life. MAXIM ASADCHIY co-producer We talk (and laugh) about this subject with the protagonists of this At the crossroads between the war-torn East and the peaceful KIRILL KRASOVSKIY scriptwriter film, modern geniuses and ordinary people from different parts West, the people of the Danube delta earn their living by cutting TETIANA KHODAKIVSKA scriptwriter of the world. Among them: Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, world- reed during the winter, while dreaming of the ultimate catch: YULIA SERDYUKOVA director of photography renowned Ukrainian composer Valentyn Sylvestrov, Italian poet the legendary Beluga fish, said to be worth a fortune. With dreams YAROSLAV PILUNSKY, director of photography and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who worked with Federico Fellini, instead of goals and water instead of ground beneath their feet, ANDRIY TOLOSHNY, VITALIY Andrey Tarkovsky and other famous directors, Dzongsar Khyentse, OLEKSANDR TECHYNSKYI ZAPOROZHCHENKO they revel in every moment of this unbearable lightness of being. the Buddhist lama and the only Bhutanese filmmaker known sound director composer OLEG GOLOVOSHKIN in Hollywood, David Harrington, the founder of the Kronos Quartet ANTON BAIBAKOV and Enrica Antonioni, the widow of Michelangelo Antonioni. OLEKSANDR TECHYNSKYI was born in 1979. In 1999 he graduated TETIANA KHODAKIVSKA is a Ukrainian director, editor, and screenwriter. from Dnipropetrovsk Medical College, and