Avrupa’nın hemen yanı başında, Ukrayna’nın Donbass bölgesinde dört yıldır devam eden bir savaş mevcuttur. Rus yanlılarının ve milislerin yönetime karşı başkaldırdığı ülkede yolsuzluk, propaganda, soygun ve silahlı çatışmalar gündelik hayatın bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Yaşam ve ölümün iç içe geçtiği, hakikatin önemini yitirdiği bu dönemde yediden yetmişe herkes, kaos ortamından payına düşeni almaktadır.

Donbass

The film is about the director’s mother, the movie actress Nina Antonova. Now she is 80. She has had hundreds of roles – big and small. It is a personal story about an honest and sad life, about self-sacrifice and freedom. Real fame as an actress came to her only once in her life. It was the leading role in the first Soviet colour TV series Varka’s Land. That was 45 years ago…

The Leading Role

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

In Times of Fading Light

A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.

The Final Journey

Anatoliy, a man who comes home to care for his dying mother. An encounter with his brother and a woman he loves causes him to reflect on the decisions he has made along the way.

Stepne

Sent to a gulag, the first Soviet sexologist uncovers harrowing tales of sexual brutality.