Original title: Blukayuchy pomizh
Copyright: Anatoliy Lavrenyshyn, 2005
Format: animation, short
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 10"    
Original language: non-verbal
English subtitles: n/a

Film crew
Director, designer: Anatoliy Lavrenyshyn
Artistic supervisor: Yevhen Syvokin
Sound: Maksym Demydenko
Composer: Ihor Lebedkin
3D animation: Yura Kholodilov

Synopsis
A beautifully portrayed moment in one man’s inner life. The protagonist wanders into and out of reality; he loses himself in his insecurities, painful doubts and repressed fears; he dreams of his desire for love and happiness.

Film crew
Director: Ihor Strembitsky
Screenwriter: Natalya Kononchuk
Cinematographer: Ihor Strembitsky and Artem Vasylyev
Sound: Viktoria Kuleshova, Ihor Strembitsky, Eduard Smolov
Editing: Ihor Strembitsky, Tayisiya Boyko
Editor: Olha Boyeva

Synopsys
In the words of Ihor Strembitsky the "protagonist appears as three characters: Ihor the 'director' in search of a protagonist for his film, Ihor the 'protagonist' accidentally encountered by the 'director', Ihor - the outstanding personality this cinematic portrait has been shot about. In reality, all three characters represent one person, who is in search of oneself in cinema, in photography, and in a career. The crucial aspect is photography, the protagonist's hobby. He takes exclusively one kind of pictures - self-portraits. His self-portraits are such that in them one can see neither his face nor, quite often, even his figure. In other words the protagonist is an ego-centric, who is absorbed with himself and who takes no interest in others. On the other hand, he seeks to express his own essence through some outside things and thus turns to the world around him. His hobby is not a narcissistic self-love but a painful search of the self. And, what's most important, his hobby is the highest expression of his loneliness. This film is about myself, about the one who lived before me, about the past, about the one who will live after me, and who, nevertheless, is me.

Awards
Palme d'Or du court métrage, Cannes International Film Festival, 2005, first ever Ukrainian film to have won this prize.

About the film director
Strembitsky was born in 1973 in Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine, in Nadvirna district, village of Paryshche. He studied documentary filmmaking at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University, atelier of Serhiy Bukovsky.

Film crew
Director: Viktoria Melnykova
Sript writer: Ihor Zhuk, Valentyn Marchenko
Cinematographer: Valentyn Melnychenko
Sound: Iryna Skrypchenko
Editing: Tayisia Boyko

Synopsys
This film celebrates the lesser known and tantalizingly attractive Crimean Tatar culture. It is a portrayal of the Ukrainian jazz musician Enver Izmaylov, who after years of displacement and exile returns to his ancestral land, the Crimea. There Enver finds inspiration to create his amazing music.

About the film director
Viktoria Melnykova was born in 1969, Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1997 she graduated as film director from the Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Theater, Cinema, and TV, atelier of Mykhailo Illienko.

Filmography
1996 "The Date" (Pobachennia), short feature.
2001 "From the Life of a Country Called Motherland" (Z zhyttia krayiny pid nazvoyu bat'kivshchyna), 26".
2002 "Jewellery Fever" (U lykhomantsi za koshtovnostiamy), 26"; "Special Children" (Osoblyvi dity), 20'; "Passions According to Computer" (Prystrasti za komp'yuterom), 26";
2003 "My Toy" (Moya Ihrashka), 26"; "Everything for Money" (Vse za hroshi), 20"; Thousand-Life Capacity (Potuzhnistiu u tysiachi dol'), 26"; "On Cinema. Ukrainian." (Pro kino. Ukrayins'ke), 26";
2005 "Consonance", 28", "With Best Wishes, Enver," documentary, 29".

Original title: Ogniem i Mieczem
Copyright: Polart Distribution (USA) Inc., 2002
Format: feature, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: Volume I, Part 1 - 52", Part 2 – 52"; Volume II, Part 3 – 51", Part 4 – 50"    
Original language: Polish and Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Script writer: Jerzy Hoffman based on the novel Ogniem i Mieczem by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cinematographer: Grzegorz Kedzierski
Music: Krzesimir Debski

Film cast
Bodan Stupka as Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ruslana Pysanka as the witch, as well as
I. Skorupko, M.Zebrowski, D.Olbrychski, A. Domogarov, Z. Zamachowski

Synopsis
At the time of its release this lavish historical epic was the biggest budget film ever made in Poland. Although based on the novel by H. Sienkiewicz, which openly vilified and demonized Ukrainian Cossacks, the film radically departs from its literary source. It presents Ukraine and Ukrainians in a manner designed to facilitate the healing of historical enmities between Poles and Ukrainians. The story, a love triangle — played out among a young Polish noblewoman who is torn between a somewhat sleepy Polish nobleman, Skrzytucki, and a fiery Ukrainian Cossack leader, Ivan Bohun — unfolds against the backdrop of the Ukrainian War of Liberation, lead by the great hetman Bohdan Zinoviy Khmelnytskyi in the mid-17th century, against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The film provoked a lively discussion in Poland and Ukraine on a variety of issues, among these: of the past, present and future of Polish-Ukrainian relations, the current state of Ukrainian cinema and identity, engaging leading public intellectuals on both sides.