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Resilience & Sacrifice

2025

Award-winning documentary Resilience & Sacrifice follows an emerging musician from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom who shelved his dreams to raise his family. Years later, he returns to the stage, facing the music industry and a medical crisis that nearly ends his career. A story of grit and passion.

Cinemaghar

2023

This short documentary explores the changes in film viewing experience, which over time has become less social and more solitary. Through creative use of the audio-visual medium and conversations with cinephiles of different generations, the filmmaker explores his nostalgia for the past and anxiety regarding the survival of theatres in the future.

A Small Paradise

2024 · ★ 10

A Small Paradise is a film documentary about the Greek island Kos and the people there. It is a cinematic and nostalgic journey. In the film documentary, you meet people of different backgrounds and sexes. They share their thoughts and opinions about the island and other topics. You get captivated by the small interviews, the music, and the personal stories.

Tony Curtis on 'Some Like It Hot'

2001 · ★ 8

Leonard Maltin interviews Tony Curtis on his experience filming 'Some Like It Hot'.

Door

2026

A journey into the complexity of life and the facade of old city doors, an attempt to convey the voice of those people behind the gates telling their stories.

ATAVISM

2024 · ★ 10

Within the video, two screens coexist. On the primary screen, a repetitive action takes place - the photo in the hands is periodically blurred. The focus of the viewer's attention is shifted to the secondary screen, which is more dynamic. The face in front of the camera, resembling clay, tries to take on images from archival photographs and video recordings.

Yushchenko Stole My Pants

2026

Four punk friends from Alchevsk travel to a winter camp in Burshtyn, where they pull off a series of absurd prykoly – sawing apart a wardrobe, setting off a fire extinguisher, and dragging their friend Stepan’s bed into the bathroom. Assembled entirely from Sasha Chepeliev’s school-era video and photo archives (2005–2006) and woven together with a cycle of songs written by the director, the film becomes a funny and heartbreaking journey through adolescence, when cruelty went hand in hand with tenderness, and playing with political slogans still felt like nothing more than a game.

The List.

2026

A boy discovers a diary he wrote as a child, filled with dreams he once believed he would achieve. As he reflects on how far he is from that life, he breaks the fourth wall to share his regrets, hopes, and one simple truth: he's still trying.

In These Pages

★ 10

This short documentary sifts through the pages of a woman's diary who has recently begun to write her memoir. As she looks back at her life and some of her memories, the film explores the ordinary act of writing and the value and meaning it may hold in mundane everyday life.

Shattered to Pieces

1999

A short music documentary about the life and work of Darkwood Dub band from 1990 to 2000s.

Valera: Man-Mountain

An experimental short assembled from YouTube videos of the director’s former classmate, TV fragments, and a 2006 graduation interview recorded in Alchevsk. What starts as an ironic play with early-2000s home-video aesthetics slowly falls apart. Through montage of personal and online material, Chepelev tries to reconnect with a man he once loved – a man whom war and time have made almost unrecognisable. Laughter loses its protective function and gives way to the impossible wish to return to a place that no longer exists.

The Ultimate Tally Hall Documentary

2021 · ★ 10

A complete historical documentation of one of the world's most unique bands, Tally Hall, & its members