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Porcelain War and The Editorial Office

Dear Beautiful Beloved (Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Juri Rechinsky; Writer: Kseniya Kharchenko, Juri Rechinsky)

In Ukraine, volunteers preserve humanity by caring for the living and the dead.

The Editorial Office (Redaktsiya) (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Roman Bondarchuk; Writer: Alla Tyutyunnyk, Dar'ya Averchenko, Roman Bondarchuk; Stars: Dmytro Bahnenko, Zhanna Ozirna, Rymma Ziubina, Andrii Kyrylchuk, Oleksandr Shmal)

Satire sees a biologist mixed up in a web of fake news as he tries to reveal a story.

Full Review See: Roman Bondarchuk on fake news, politics and the situation in Ukraine in The Editorial Office

Intercepted (Country: Canada, France, Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Oksana Karpovych; Writer: Oksana Karpovych)

The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.

Full Review See: Oksana Karpovych on aggression and resistance in Ukraine

The Invasion (L’Invasion) (Country: Ukraine, Netherlands, France, US; Year: 2024; Director: Sergei Loznitsa)

Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.

Full Review

The Mousetrap (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Serhii Kastornykh; Writer: Serhii Kastornykh; Stars: Andrey Isaenko, Hanna Birzul, Yuri Kulinich)

During war a man becomes trapped in a bunker with only a rat as a companion.

Intercepted and The Invasion

Porcelain War (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev; Writer: Aniela Sidorska, Brendan Bellomo, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Slava Leontyev)

Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.

Full Review

A Sentimental Journey To The Parajanov Planet (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2024; Director: Taras Tomenko; Writer: Taras Tomenko)

Documentary homage to Sergey Parajanov.

U Are The Universe (Country: Ukraine, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Pavlo Ostrikov; Writer: Pavlo Ostrikov; Stars: Volodymyr Kravchuk, Daria Plahtiy, Alexia Depicker, Leonid Popadko)

In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is employed by the biggest nuclear waste disposal company in Eastern Europe, which is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.