Ukrainian Competition: Selection #2

BEWARE OF THE GOOD DOG // 26 min., Adelina Borets, Ukraine, Poland, 2024

Stepan regularly adopts old dogs from the shelter, who spend their last days beside him and die peacefully. It’s his own way of coming to terms with the end of his life. He dreams die peacefully in old age during the war in Ukraine. But peace is a privilege stolen by the young boy Gogo. What happens when two enemies of different ages but equally lonely meet at the cemetery at night? They’ll smoke, eat a basket of ice cream, and dance.

UNAVAILABLE // 20 min, Kyrylo Zemlyanyi, Ukraine, 2025

During the first months of the war, young Serhii moves to western Ukraine, where he works as a volunteer in a humanitarian warehouse. The day when his mother decides to leave the area occupied by the Russian army, they lose their telephone connection. The next day, Serhii learns that a humanitarian convoy from his hometown has been destroyed in a bombing raid.

I DIED IN IRPIN // 11 min., Anastasiia Falileieva, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic

24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.

HELLO, I’M ON THE HILL // 14 min., Liza Pyrozhkova, Ukraine, 2024

In the destroyed city of Izium, Kharkiv region, Kremyanets Hill has become an “island of communication”, where people can find mobile connection with their families after months of Russian occupation.

ADDITIONAL SCENES // 15 min., Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk, Ukraine, 2024

On Day 377 of the Russian-Ukrainian War, in Kyiv, a man debates with his wife about the pillows — which one is for sleeping and which one is not. And why should we make a film about the war, anyway?