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The Guide

Dir.: Oles Sanin
| 122 minutes

Soviet Ukraine, the 1930s. A boy and a blind man flee the terrors of the government. While trying to maintain the boy’s innocence, we discover that perhaps the blind man sees reality more clearly than his sighted friend. The Guide manages to capture human emotion and experience.

Mother of Apostles

Dir.: Zaza Buadze
| 122 minutes

When Sofia discovers her son’s plane was shot down over occupied Ukraine, she sets out to save him. She changes something in the lives of all she meets, spreading courage and motherly qualities. Mother of Apostles is an impressive and award-winning drama.

Felix Austria

Dir.: Khrystyna Syvolap
| 103 minutes

25 years after being saved from a fire, Adelia and Stepania are inseparable. But what are they now? Sisters? Friends? Maid and mistress? In a whirlwind of love and jealousy, double meanings and mysteries, little by little the border between reality and imagination evaporates.

Why I'm Alive

Dir.: Villen Novak
| 120 minutes

In a small seaside town in pre-WWII Ukraine, the love between 17-year-old Frosya and Lyonchyk is tested when she becomes pregnant and he is sent to the frontline. This is an epic love story about the preservation of love and humanity in the darkest of times.