Film crew
Director and script writer: Taras Tomenko
Cinematographer: Maykhailo Markov
Set designer: Vitaliy Shchavel
Sound: Maksym Demydenko
Composer: Kipras Mashanauskas
Producer - "Zoloti vorota"

Film cast
Mykailo Holubovych, Serhiy Syplyvyi, Olena Hal-Savalska, Mykhailo Zhonin, Serhiy Oleksiyenko

Synopsis
From a review by Stephen Rak: "The film is a parable about a man who discovers an angel in the desert. He brings the angel home and locks him up in the chicken coop. He quickly realizes the economic benefits of his treasure, and sets up shop charging people for a glimpse of the angel. The film follows his rise to riches, climaxing in a carnivalesque orgy of food and wine and bodies. Avarice has completely consumed the protagonist, and the poor angel's sufferings are of little concern to him. By the end of the film, however, the main character finds himself alone again, deserted.
Though the film instantly recalls the work of Fellini, Paradzhanov, Roeg, Bunuel, or even Dalí, Parched Land is a singularly unique film. A surreal logic pervades the film, with an intentional ambiguity as to where the angel has come from, and where it ultimately goes. From the arid barrenness of the desert to the comic grotesqueness of the feast, there seems to be a constant, dream-like conflation of fantasy and reality. Its lack of dialogue adds to the other-worldliness of the film, but it also speaks of the universal theme of the story. This form of greed and insensitivity has cropped up in other contexts, for example in the parading of Native Americans in Europe or the physically deformed people in circuses and carnival shows across the world.
One audience member asked Tomenko about the origin of the angel in Parched Land. Tomenko explained that, as a parable, the question of the angel's origin is a moot point. Nevertheless, he entertained the question, proffering that perhaps the angel had fallen from God's graces, or had been pushed out of heaven by other angels. But the angel's story is not the story of the film - Parched Land is a film about a man who finds, in Tomenko's words, "his angel." What he does with his angel is the issue in the film.

Film crew
Director and script writer: Serhiy Masloboyshchykov
Cinematographer: Viktor Kabachenko, Mykola Honcharenko, Bohdan Verzhbytsky
Sound: Oleksander Horbunov
Editing: Ihor Rak
Computer Design: Viktor Fylypchak
Assistant Director: Nadiya Sukhanova
Co-producer: Svitlana Zinovieva

Synopsis
In the words of the director Serhiy Masloboishchykov, this film is an attempt at dialogue between two opposing visions of Ukraine, its present, and its future that dramatically clashed in the heady events of the Orange Revolution in 2004 on the Independence Square of Kyiv that came to be known as simply "Maidan", Ukrainian for "square". The two opponents are the "orange" who supported Viktor Yushchenko and who rose in peaceful defense of their right to vote and be counted and the "blue" who supported Viktor Yanukovych. The film narrates the events of the Maidan and retrospective views of the two opposing parties nine months after the revolution.

Original title: Nastroishchik
Copyright: Pygmalion Production Film Company, 2004, Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, Voks Video, 2005
Format: feature, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: black-and-white / sepia
Length:            154"
Original language: Russian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Kira Muratova
Script writer: Sergey Chetvertakov with the participation of Yevhen Holubenko and Kira Muratova
Cinematographer: Hennadiy Kariuk
Artistic designer: Yevhen Holubenko
Composer: Valentyn Selvestrov
Sound: Yukhym Turetskyi
Editing: Tamara Denysova
Producer: Sergey Chliants

Film cast
Georgiy Deliev as Andriusha the tuner
Alla Demidova as Anna Sergeevna
Nina Ruslanova as Luba
Renata Litvinova as Lina
as well as Natalia Buzko, Jean Daniel, Uta Kilter, Leonid Pavlovskyi, Anatoliy Paduka, Iryna Panova, et al.

Song in the streetcar written and performed by Natalia Demitrova
Loosely based on the King of Detection (Koroli rossiyskogo syska: ubiystvo Buturlina) by the Russian detective stories writer of the early 20th century Arkadiy Koshko.

Synopsis
The Piano Tuner is a penetrating portrayal of a society on the verge of moral collapse. As the old network of interpersonal relationships falls prey to the kleptocratic capitalism of the Kuchma era, human behavior is overtaken by one principle: Money does not smell. Virtues like honesty, decency, compassion, and trust become liabilities and can lead to ruin. The main protagonists, two women past their prime, are by choice out of tune with the real world.  Enter the Tuner. His nice manners, quick wit, and empathy are a subterfuge. Ominously, the tuning of an old piano becomes the "tuning" of the two ladies to the new reality of post-Soviet Ukraine.

Kira Muratova says of the Piano Tuner, “It is a small simple story about swindlers. Such is the main hero. He passes himself off as a tuner of musical instruments to gain entry into people’s homes. And there’s another pair of swindlers besides him. It is a film about victimhood, as I understand it. People want to give themselves up, they want to be robbed, used, and be useful in that way. They are ready to give up their soul, their body, their money. This is a touching quality, characteristic of very many of our fellow-citizens.” (from Kira Muratova by  Jane Taubman, KINOfiles Filmmakers’ Companion 4, 2005).