#ukrainian film

[fibula-rasa]

Poplar Tree / Тополя (1996)  

[letterboxd | dovzhenko centre]

Director: Valentyna Kostylieva

Camera: Svitlana Novi

Animator: Oksana Karpus

Studio: Укранімафільм

[dontforgetukraine]

The animated film "I died in Irpin" won the main prize in the "International Competition: King of Trauma" category at the LINOLEUM festival. The 11-minute film was drawn with charcoal on paper. The director, Anastasia Falileieva, tells her story of the time she and her boyfriend decided to visit his parents. They spent 10 days in the besieged city of Irpin. She was able to leave with the last evacuation column.

On February 24th in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to see his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and minimizes all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day everything rapidly became worse.

Watch the trailer below, and be sure to click CC for English subtitles.

Sources: Detector Media, Maurfilm

[l-ultimo-squalo]

Amulet (1991) dir. Mykola Rasheyev

There's a copy of this rare film with English subtitles both on VK as well as on the internet archive.

[mediaomnivore]

As part of my Halloween viewing, I watched Viy (Вий) from 1967, a Ukrainian Soviet witch movie. This is what I wrote on Letterboxd:

I was in awe of these visuals. I cannot even fathom how a lot of this was lit. It reminded me that I still have not quite managed to fully get my hands around what it means to be a Cossack.

[monstersonscreen]

One of the very, very few werewolf films (we're talking three at most, and two of them are from Poland) to come from the former Eastern Bloc was 1991's Amulet, directed by Nikolai Rasheev.

The werewolf mask. which is a striking uncanny design, gets very little screentime and is shown in very dark lighting; its also vague as to who did the prosthetic, but it could have been visual effects artist Jirí Rumler. The film is hard to find outside the internet, and behind the scenes information is no doubt rarer.

[ravencat35]

Forget about oscars 2023 and better watch the documentary "A house made of splinters".

The history of an orphanage in currently occupied Lysychansk. At the time of filming, it was separated from the front line by only 20 kilometers.

[mavochkapivnichna]

The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)

[faelorelia]

If you love fantasy, folklore, and mythology, watch "Mavka: The Forest Song"! 🇺🇦 This beautiful Ukrainian animated film, based on Lesya Ukrainka’s "Lisova Pisnya", explores a forest sprite's struggle between love and duty. It's heartwarming and visually stunning! 🌿✨

[theophan-o]

Pracuję ja sobie dziś grzecznie nad moją książeczką i nagle, zupełnie niespodziewanie, znajduję TO!

@wanderer-on-the-steppe, dla Ciebie!

[valentinsylve]

[chrysocomae]

Found Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors to view online for free with English subtitles from archive.org :) (you may need to register)

[fibula-rasa]

Poplar Tree / Тополя (1996)  

[letterboxd | dovzhenko centre]

Director: Valentyna Kostylieva

Camera: Svitlana Novi

Animator: Oksana Karpus

Studio: Укранімафільм

[gaiagrin]

from short film “Run, Tanya, run”

[rraspad]

MOVIES (checklist?)

(and cool youtube videos at bottom)

red = watched

pink = not watched/want to watch

🐝

[SLAVIC FILM]

my thoughts are silent — 2019

donbas — 2018

klondike — 2022

winter on fire — 2015

the voice of grass - 1992

СТАЛКЕР - 1979

come and see — 1985

color of pomegranates - 1969

the cranes are flying — 1957

commissar — 1967

fall of berlin — 1950

decay — 1990

oxygen starvation — 1991

wedding with death — 1992

homecoming — 2013

battle for sevastopol — 2015

offisers — 1971

tangerines — 2013

🐌

[GERMAN FILM]

im westen nichts neus — 1928

nothing new in the west — 2022

the downfall — 2004

metropolis — 1927

almanya — 2011

the boat — 1981

the fox — 2022

the white ribbon — 2009

run boy run — 2013

the pianist — 2002

run lola run — 1998

🦢

[ENGLISH FILM]

hunt for red october — 1990

fight club — 1999

boy in striped pajamas — 2008

greyhound — 2022

hacksaw ridge — 2016

saving privat ryan — 1998

the godfather — 1972

forrest gump — 1994

american psycho — 2000

casablanca — 1942

apollo 13 — 1995

hidden figures — 2016

rocky 1-6 — 1996 - 2006

creed 1-3 — 2015 - 2023

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[YOUTUBE VIDEOS]

RIOT HOLIDAY

KYIV NIGHTS OF FIRE

SHINING

38 MINUTES. 18 KILLINGS.

WORK LIFE BALANCE

THE WOLF

THE DAY AFTER 9/11

[usermavka]

🎬 Poplar Tree 1996, dir. Valentyna Kostylyeva