Movies: Valeriia Sochyvets

Young MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward....

Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with...

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Im...

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory....

Iva comes to an authentic and picturesque provincial town in the mountains, where forgotten places have a warm scent of the past, lighting up a desire to bring back her first love, Boris, who is preparing for marriage. Contrary to the social norms, I...

Based on diaries and photographs found in the houses destroyed during the Russian war against Ukraine, the film captures the stories of Mariupol, including that of the director’s family. It centers on the value of freedom and human life itself over t...

As the bombs dropped in her hometown of Kyiv and her father left home to fight in the war, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast Viktoriia Onopriienko battled daily to make her dream – competing in Paris 2024 – come true. This documentary showcases her grit, re...

On a warm fall day, a construction worker decides to have a lunch break, a young girl takes care of her elderly grandmother, a film director tries to edit his documentary footage....

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory....

Despite himself, a doctor has to go with his young patient in the mountains. He will never forget this trip. Through a "mise en abyme" of the filmic process by an original method that reveals what the protagonist is filming, we are constantly rocked ...

An audiovisual allegory on communication – this film follows cable technicians in four different countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova) as they visit their customers. Each client they call on provides a glimpse into their own individual univ...

After several years on the frontline, Sasha, a female sniper in the Ukrainian army, returns to her home village, determined to forget the war and return to a peaceful life. But she finds out that her father, a forester, disappeared because of his res...

Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed....

Every year, thousands of Ukrainian Christians undertake a pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia, a sacred place. Between prayers they share news, brag about their wealth, take pictures of chapels, give interviews, witness miracles. Witness miracles?...

Another visit to the doctor happens to be unsuccessful for Maria. Her marriage is on the verge of destruction. Deceiving her husband, she gradually realizes that she lives in a lie, and increasingly retreats into herself to look for forgotten answers...

That Christmas wasn't particularly snowy in Lviv, however it didn't spoil the mood for tourists and locals. Mother and her daughter taking advantage of people's inattention steal from shops and sell it in social networks....

Young cello player Nastya is besotted with Yura and wants him to be her "first". But this can be too much for some men, so Nastya has to think carefully about her strategy....

A terrible accident happens on the New Year's Eve: the girl is taken to the intensive care, while her friend becomes mute after the shock. The parents try to find the way out of this situation, but first, they need to face their own problems and unde...

During the political crisis in the Ukraine, young parents are going through a tough divorce. The mother wishes to emigrate with her child, but the father can't imagine living without his son....

Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own apartment in a residential area of Kyiv. They are madly in love with each other, but their happiness and lives are suddenly threatened. There seems to be a real evil lurking behind...