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The snow is starting to melt and spring has announced its arrival. Three Carpathian shepherds, just like their fathers and grandfathers before them, set off with their flock into the mountains on a lonely journey lasting several months.

Ivan Prykhodko is one of the last folk artists in Ukraine. He is self-taught, lives in the countryside, and everything that comes from under his brushes is naive and honest art. Ivan's perception of the world, his inner life, is full of beauty and joy. One day Ivan's paintings are requested for an exhibition at the Art Arsenal, the country's main exhibition center. Will he exchange his small village hut for the glamorous city life and the company of art critics and agents?

A "direct cinema" documentary that explores the art and inner workings of the major art institution in Kyiv, Ukraine. Two special exhibitions - one dedicated to the Ukrainian baroque and another one to a prominent avant-garde artist - are the two defining events in the film's narrative.

Valentin is an eccentric projectionist. For 44 years, he's been working in one of the oldest cinema in Kiev's city center. In his projection booth, he drinks vodka, dances with the girls from next door casting agency or cuts his friend's hair. Every day at work seems like another adventure. It all comes to an abrupt end when a fire breaks out in the cinema and Valentin is forced to retire. With an average life expectancy for men in Ukraine of 64 years, Valentin is aware that he does not have much time left. Still, he fights desperately to find a new meaning in life in a rapidly changing country.

30 thousand Hasidim journey to Uman in Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of Rebbe Nachmann. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jews and Poles in 1768.

The documentary film dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov. It is an observation, a confession and, most of all, a story of great talent set against the backdrop of uncertain times.

The film is a collage, an essay and a documentary in tribute to an avant-garde artist and writer Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Viewers are immersed in the absurd and bitterly funny universe of the artist, as scholars and friends reflect on his life, enigma and the mystique of his connection with Kazimir Malevich's famous "Black Square" - an inception point of Russian avant-garde.

Michail is an artist. He is working on a series of paintings called "Franz Kafka's Diary". His son Daniel is thirty-four and yet his life is hardly separable from the life of his father. He is deaf and mute, and suffers from a severe form of cerebral palsy. Michail is determined and energetic, Daniel - persistent and charismatic. And they are a striking couple. The film offers a detailed observation of two interconnected characters.

Pryvoz is one of the oldest and largest European markets. Everyone goes there, everyone finds something. Those searching for miracles or change-in destiny, human soul, time-will not leave with empty-handed.

A small Jewish town in Ukraine, perhaps two hundred years ago... Bustling Jews with their "funny, sorrowful everyday lives" and their noble millennia-old traditions. Many different events unfold in the Jewish town on the eve of Shabbat. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. HAVEL HAVALIM. Yet, amidst all this, the prophet Elijah is invisibly present with his miracles, whether you believe in him or not.

White winter blizzard covers everything. We can rely now only on saints, on our prayers. The future has sailed away, with us left behind. Astray, we did not board the magic ship. The task at hand is simple - not to perish in the fog, not to die from the cold, not to get trapped under the ice. Not to fall in our own snares. Or are we all in one big trap anyway? Running around in a small circle, counting those who vanished.

Oleh Bazylevych, the favorite forward of Kyiv Dynamo fans, could have remained just a player in the history of Ukrainian football. But he decided to become a coach. And it was the beginning of the new page for him. The story of Bazylevych's life reminds the action novel with its dangerous rises, terrific falls, extraordinary voyages, and mystery adventures.

The war separates lovers, but their hearts remain together. The young woman loses her mind, but love gives her strength to wait for her beloved.

Where geography and common sense doesn't work, there is a place for him. This is a story about a person who has everything. It is not quite the same we used to imagine as the products of contemporary system of values. Living on the edge between alcoholic dreams and awakenings Fenik has found his niche. The only reason to worry about is that scrap metal will be gone soon.

The Volhynian massacre remains a taboo topic for subsequent generations of Poles and Ukrainians. Karolina's family talked about the events in which their relatives died only behind closed doors. To find out the truth about her ancestors, Karolina sets off to Volhynia. She is accompanied by Ukrainian cinematographer Oleksandr, who also wants to learn about the story in which his family members were participants. Together they travel through areas where Poles once lived, and now the landscape is empty fields. They talk to residents, some of whom still remember the tragic events of 1943.