Film crew
Director: Roman Shyrman
Screenplay: Serhiy Trymbach with participation of Roman Shyrman
Director of photography: Eduard Timlin
Animation: Radna Sakhaltuyev, Artem Sukharev
Producer: Olena Potapova
Video editing and soundtrack: Artem Sukharev
Sound: Ihor Barba
Assistant director: Valeria Korolyshyn
Narrative written and read by Roman Shyrman

Synopsis
The film is about the legendary Armenian/Russian/Ukrainian filmmaker Sergey Paradzhanov (Sarkis Parajanian), whose film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1964) marked the arrival of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The film is widely considered to be the most important Ukrainian picture since Oleksander Dovzhenko's silent movies. Paradzhanov's work and controversial personality inspired generations of free-thinking filmmakers as well as intellectuals in Ukraine and elsewhere, many of whom went to take part in the human rights and national liberation movement that contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet empire and the emergence of an independent Ukraine in 1991. Federico Fellini famously called Paradzhanov a "magician of cinema". The film is an artful synthesis of surviving documentary footage, pictorial art, and animation.

Awards
Prize at the International Film Festival in Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2005.

About the film director
Roman Shyrman, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, born on October 25, 1952, graduated form the All-Union State Institute of Cinema (VGIK) in Moscow in film directing. Winner of international and Ukrainian film festivals. Roman Shyrman works for the film studios "Kinematohrafist", National Cinematheque of Ukraine, "Kyivnaukfilm", TV channels Inter, STB, Rossia. He is a professor at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University for Theatre, Cinema, and TV. Mr. Shyrman authored the monograph "Directing in Television. Master Class" (Televiziyna rezhysura. Maister-klas), 2004.

Filmography
1982 "Jupiter's Ring"
1984 "Invisible Life"
1986 "The Gift"
1989 "The Stalin Syndrome"
1990 "The Last Chance"
1995 "And a New Day Shall Come"
1996 "The Tree under the Window
2000 "Leopold"
2004 "A Dangerously Free Person"
2005 "To Execute the Executioner", "A Musical about War".

Original title: Den siomyi
Copyright: Production Company “Zakryta Zona” Ltd., 2005
Format: documentary, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 76"
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Oles Sanin
Script writer: Natalka Fitsych
Cinematographers: Serhiy Takhmazov, Ivan Pavlovych, Dmytro Sanin
Sound: Oleh Bondarenko, Serhiy Prokopenko
Composer: Alla Zahaikevych, Oleh Bondarenko
Editing: Andriy Sanin
General producer: Volodymyr Ariev

Synopsis
A tale of the most dramatic moment of the Orange Revolution, when the Kuchma-Yanukovych regime allegedly came perilously close to drowning the peaceful mass protests in Kyiv in blood.

Original title: also under Ukrainian title "Mertvi pivni"
Copyright: Indoslav Pictures, 2003
Format: feature, short
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length:            13"
Original language: Russian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director, script writer, and cinematographer: Andrij Parekh
Editing: Kirill Mikhanovsky
Executive producer: John Hynansky
Produced by: Radioactive Film, Kyiv, Ukraine

Film cast
Arsen Tymoshenko as Marko
Kostya Shafarenko as Viktor
Natalia Valyaeva as Svieta
Ludmyla Koplakovska as sister
Ira Shyrniuk as Olia
Leila Kryvyshenko as Leila

Synopsis
Marko has just succeeded in realizing his American dream. Origianlly from Kyiv, the young man returns to his homeland for a visit. To his Ukrainian family and friends, he appears rich, sure of himself, and obviously cool. That he is also dangerous, deadly dangerous, neither they nor Marko himself suspects.

Awards
Dead Roosters (Mertvi Pivni) won the Grand Marnier Film Fellowship at the 2004 New York Film Festival.

About the film director
“My mom is Ukrainian,” Parekh explains, “and I have a lot of contacts there, including some Americans who opened up a production company. So I decided to take 10 reel cans and not to leave until I had shot my thesis film. There was no script — just a one-page scenario, available light, actors improvising, the crew as the producer recording sound, and myself. I used one 35 mm lens.”
Andrij Parekh studied cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (MFA, 2001) and the FAMU film school in Prague. He was named in 2006 one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Indie Film". Currently he lives and works in New York, shooting features and music videos.

Film crew
Director: Heorhiy (Georgiy) Deliyev
Screenplay: Yuri Sadomsky
Cinematographer: Ruslan Vitukhin
Composer: Anastasia Sadomska
Sound: Yukhym Turetsky
Editing: Iryna Bloherman
Producer: Viktoria Petryna

Film cast
Liza Lebedynska as Raika
Maria Pyvovarova as baba Nadia
Liudmyla Vasylieva as baba Sonia
Anatoliy Paduka as 1st German POW
Hennadiy Skarha as 2nd German POW
Valeriy Shvets as Red Army soldier

Synopsis.
Three women - Nadia, her grand-daughter Raika and her friend Sonia are victims of WW2 living in a half-ruined house. They lost their families. All they have left are themselves, their mutual attachment, human dignity and a sense of compassion that gets stronger despite their language, religious, and generational differences. Nadia is Christian, Sonia is Jewish, and Raika seems too little to care much for religion. Their petty daily squabbles take a backseat the moment their world is invaded by strangers: two sheepish German POWs, longing for some human warmth and their guard, a Soviet soldier whose behavior more befits a conqueror than a liberator. The three women find themselves in a situation when they need to take sides. The choice they make is deeply subversive of the Soviet historiography of WW2.

About the film director.
Heorhiy (Russian spelling Georgiy) Deliev is well known in Ukraine as the front-man of the Maski-Show pantomime theater, as well as a film actor. His latest part was in Kira Muratova's feature the Tuner, 2004. Deliev also wrote and directed the comedy "Seven Days with a Russian Beauty", 1994.