Nadia Parfan

Stargazing

A young astrophysicist in a war-torn country watches the stars and black holes, holding a dialogue with her unborn daughter about the nature of light and darkness.

70 000 Years Ago

70,000 years ago. Khliupyk aka Namby-Pamby lives among a pack that expects him to eventually become a normal hunter, but his soul gravitates towards music. Will he become what his father and the pack see him as, or will he choose music?

It’s a Date

Kyiv in 2022. A car races at breakneck speed through the city at dawn. Filmed from a subjective camera angle in a single unedited shot, this remale of Claude Lelouch's "C'était un rendez-vous" captures the emotions in a state of emergency caused by the war.

Giorgos and Polya

This is a documentary story of love, a story about the long-distance relationship that started in September 2014, while war in Ukraine and the economic crisis in Greece were taking a dramatic turn.

Dream Machine

Enerhodar is a city that functions with the routine of its power plants. Every day thousands of people return to the reinforced concrete hive. After work, Oleksіy, like the rest, gets on the bus, but he doesn't go home. He goes to create a free space of wood and metal. Or maybe it's a dream?

My Friend Don Quixote

An attempt by a young director to reflect on her own professional aspirations while looking at another director who has been trying for decades to establish an avant-garde theatre in a provincial Donbass town. Now it is his last attempt – what will it bring?

Diorama

Life flows in its everyday reality, but then suddenly something elusive changes its course. All that is left is the chance to plunge into memories where everything is preserved, as if in a museum.

People’s Museum of Avdiivka

The main exposition of the museum in Avdiivka was dedicated to the Caucasus. In 2015, exposition was partly destroyed due to a Russian projectile. But now in Avdiivka there is again a people's museum - a place where the most wonderful ideas come to life.

Housewarming

At some point, one has to move out. A man decided to take care of his new house in advance.

Acute Pain

Tolik had a dream, to flip over penguins over. It didn’t go well with the Antarctic. His dream came true in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone. But the film is not about it. The film is about teeth.

Ma

Mom feeds little birds from the window of a panel building in Mariupol, Ukraine, and grows quince in her dacha garden near the battle line. Telling about her simple life, the woman shoots videos for her daughter, who lives in Kyiv and often doesn't pick up the phone.

Anew

They say whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. But how to start everything over and don’t lose taste to life? New home, new friends, new job, new family, new values… This is life story of one refugee from Donetsk city who was forced to leave her new dream house on one day and escaped from the war with little child in her hands. How does this story differ from 1,5 million similar dramas of other refugees from eastern Ukraine? Maybe, these are amazing vitality, positive philosophy of being and irresistible optimism in spite of the circumstances...

Me and Mariupol

Mariupol is an industrial city on Azov sea. I went there as a young sailor 20 years ago. The places alive in my memory are mostly destroyed. The battle-line of the Russian-Ukrainian war is just nearby the city. In the night I can hear the bombing. However, I am looking for the miracle there.

It's Quiet Down Below

Metro is a factory of rush for the passengers. Thousands, who do not hurry to break the circulation schedule, work to create the rhythm. What does the escalator controller think of, sitting inside her booth during the rush hour? How do the cashiers see us through the window of their own, separate world, decorated with flowerpots? What a metro worker in the small room with found items loses?

70 Streets

When Brovary village officially became a town, one third of its residents were communist. After 60 years and three revolutions such proportion didn’t change: thirty percent of its streets keep the names of the former empire.

Has-Beens

The Petrivka book market is a place where everyone brings their old books they no longer need. The market sellers are people of the old school who still perceive books as a sort of currency.

Fall

The protagonist of the film is time in a provincial town, which is not measured in minutes, hours or days, but in certain events.

In the East

Kramatorsk may not be the nicest place - a town of factories and broken infrastructure - but its denizens find much to love there, reflecting on their home with frankness and warmth.