Mikele - a young Italian with Ukrainian roots - travels to an abandoned Carpathian village to disperse his mother's ashes. Here lives his grandfather Mykhailo, a former clown nicknamed Buba. The acquaintance of grandfather and grandson is accompanied by a series of shocking events that forever unite the fates of grandfather and grandson.

Release: Dec 2023

#1 in the Ukrainian Netflix segment during the release period on the platform

This story is about coming of age and encountering the cruel reality. It’s about children who have suffered from shelling and lost their parents and dear ones but continue to live and love where others have given up on all hope

Festivals & Awards:

The world premiere of the film took place on Feb. 15, 2022 at the 72-nd Berlinale in section "Generation"

"Best Project" of section «Work in progress» at

11-th Odessa International Film Festival

Took part in section «Work in progress» at

55-th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

The story of two boys who are destined to live in a period of tremendous upheaval. This is the World War I, the coming to power of the Communists, the destruction of two empires, the military aggression of the Bolsheviks in Ukraine, which proclaimed independence, hunger as a consequence. The author’s central focus – the children attempting to escape the ugly reality through imagination and fantasy. But all this is difficult to understand, if the characters have no real, true, nor imaginary friendship. The film "Anton" is a story about children who mature within but remain children.

Festivals & Awards:

Toronto Jewish Film Festival

Jerusalem Film Festival

Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival 2019

PÖFF

Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival

Jerusalem Cinematheque – Israel Film Archive

JLM BRJFF Fall Film Festival - Eventive.org

Jewish International Film Festival | Milk Bar

AIFF - Arlington International Film Festival

Anton (Georgia) | Golden Globes

JIFF - Lido Cinemas Jewish International Film Festival (Australia) - 2021

Toronto Jewish Film Festival Fall Edition - 2020

The film tells about the last 3 months of exile of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan. That summer the poet, exiled for military service in the tsarist Russian army, receives a message from friends in St. Petersburg: he is personally pardoned by Tsar Alexander II. However, the military leadership of Novopetrovsk Fort is in no hurry to tell Taras about this and to issue a decree of dismissal. Moreover, a secret agent from Petersburg tries to do everything so that the poet remains forever.

Festivals & Awards:

2019 Brokivka International Film Festival

Special awards of the film festival:

The best actor - Yuri Shulgan,

The best feature film

The best actress - Anna Topchiy

The best DoP - Alexander Krishtalovich

In 1947, two Ukrainians enter the Gulag. The main character is UPA soldier Danilo Chervonyi. Another Ukrainian is Viktor Gurov, a Soviet pilot from Chernihiv, whose plane was shot down over enemy positions and is considered a prisoner of captivity. Gurov considers Stalin a hero and believes that the military court was wrong. Both heroes must go through hell and inhumane conditions of hard labor, the pursuit of criminal leaders, meanness, betrayal and despair.

Festivals & Awards:

2018 "Golden Dzyga" - The best costume design (Svetlana Simonovich)

2018 Award for Best Actor - Truskavets IFF "Crown of the Carpathians", Ukraine (Alexander Maurits)

World War II. Soviet troops free the pilot Ivan Dodoka from a Nazi prison. Ivan is charged with treason but instead of the desired peaceful life, he is sentenced to a long term in the Siberian prisons. Not wanting to spend the rest of his life behind barbed wire, the brave pilot escapes. The search begins. The circumstances turn the Hero of the Soviet Union into a Gulag prisoner and then an Indian Chief. That is why hechanges his name for another - Firecrosser.

Festivals & Awards:

Grand Prix III Kyiv International Film Festival (2011);

Main award in the category "Feature Film" at the Omsk Film Festival (2012);

Special Jury Prize and Prize of Cinema Critics Guild “Slon” at The Open film festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia "Kinoshock - 2012» (2012);

The film "Firecrosser" was officially nominated by the Ukrainian Oscar Committee for the Oscar Awards as best foreign film. It was longlisted in the Oscar Nominations.