Original title: Ukraina: proryv do demokratii
Copyright: NAIPEC Corporation, 2005
Format: documentary, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 98"    
Original language: Ukrainian and Russian ???
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director:
Script writer: Liudmyla Nemyria
Cinematographer: Andriy Liubchenko, Serhiy Nozhechkin, Oleksandr Tymenko
Editing: Oleksandr Tymenko, Tayisia Dolhopolova
Producers: Viktor Prykhodko, Liudmyla Nemyria, Vasyl Boychuk

Synopsis
A documentary narrative of the heady days of the Orange Revolution in 2004.

Original title: Neskorenyi
Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, the National O.Dovzhenko Studio, Oles Film Productions, Classic-Video Ltd.
Format: feature, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 105"
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director and producer: Oles Yanchuk
Script writer: Vasyl Portiak
Cinematographer: Oleksiy Zolotariov, Vitaliy Zymovets
Composer: Volodymyr Hronskyi
Production designer: Oleksandr Sheremet
Editor: Natalia Akayomova

Film cast
Hryhoriy Hladiy as Roman Shukhevych, Viktoria Malektorovych, Serhiy Romaniuk, Valeriy Halytskyi, Volodymyr Horianskyi, Viktor Stepanov, Orest Ohorodnyk, Yaroslav Muka, Oleksiy Vertynskyi, Svitlana Vatamaniuk, Valentyn Portiak.

Synopsis
This film, in the words of its director Oles Yanchuk, is “a biography of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader Roman Shukhevych” who by his personal example of self-sacrifice, fearlessness, and dedication to the cause of an independent Ukraine inspired hundreds of his comrades-in-arms. Decades since his death, Shukhevych’s legacy continues to inspire his compatriots to struggle for the liberation of Ukraine from Russian political and cultural domination. Despite his best intentions to offer an alternative history in this film, Mr. Yanchuk reverts to the very Socialist Realist aesthetic instilled in Ukrainian cinematographic culture by the ideology of Russian communism. Ironically, this is what Skukhevych and his followers are fighting against so fiercely. “The Undefeated” is interesting more as a testimony to the tenacity of old Socialist Realist aesthetics than as a novel and critical account of World War Two in Ukraine.

Original title: La Zona.
Copyright: Morgan Creativos Cine-TV, 2006
Format: documentary, full-length
Color: color
Length: 80"
Original language: Ukrainian with Spanish subtitles
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Carlos Rodriguez
Producer: Asun Lasarte
Cinematographer: Juantxu Beloki
Music:  Janusz Wojtarowicz
Sound: Manolo Rodriguez

Synopsis
A Spanish film crew is following the stories of three young Ukrainians directly affected by the worst nuclear disaster in human history at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station which occurred on April 26, 1986. Three children – Lidia Pidvalna, Anastasia Pavlenko, and Andriy Kovalchuk – and their families living perilously close to the exclusion zone around the destroyed station recount their fears, dreams, fantasies, and hopes for the future. There is a palpable sense of despair in this cinematographic trip to ‘the heart of one of the world’s most disturbing places: Chornobyl and its surrounding area contaminated with radiation and still inhabited by some five million people. These people have basically been forgotten and abandoned by their own government, Ukrainian society, and the rest of the world. Chornobyl looms large in their lives not only as a terrible memory, and a never-receding fear of a radiation-induced terminal illness that can occur at any moment, but as a nightmare that is bound to return if the neglected sarcophagus hastily constructed around the core of the fourth reactor, with huge mass of highly radioactive materials inside, is allowed to continue to disintegrate.
From the synopsis provided by the film producer: “ After our experiences in … Ukraine, we believe that a nuclear disaster has consequences that are far more terrible and complex than its purely medical effects, as they pervade every single aspect of life in the area for several generations.”

About the film director.
Carlos Rodriguez began his documentary filmmaker career at the Canal Plus, Spain. After six years, he decided, together with the producer Asun Lasarte, to establish his own production company Morgan Creativos. It specializes in the production of documentaries and other cinematographic content for TV. Since then they have produced several documentaries, some of which have gained international recognition, including awards at the Chicago International Film Festival, Seattle IFF, Docaviv IFF at San Sebastian, Spain, Documenta, Madrid, DocsBarcelona, and Sidney Opera House.