Movies: Valeriia Sochyvets

Young MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward....

Ukraine, 1996. 5 months before the moratorium on capital punishment, two old friends, a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist, investigate a murder of their colleague. Long time ago, both of them were in love with the widow of the deceased. Im...

An audiovisual allegory on communication – this film follows cable technicians in four different countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova) as they visit their customers. Each client they call on provides a glimpse into their own individual univ...

Lena and Vitya, both in their early 20s, are two kids who now have a kid of their own. In the postnatal hospital room, like in limbo, their first team project is to wake their son for a feed. As the new parents repeatedly fail, they have to deal with...

Valentina works in Lichtenstein. She lived in Kyiv until the age of 13. In 1996, during a hard transitive economic period in Ukraine, Valentina emigrated to Switzerland with her mother and stepfather. 20 years have passed....

On a warm fall day, a construction worker decides to have a lunch break, a young girl takes care of her elderly grandmother, a film director tries to edit his documentary footage....

Iva comes to an authentic and picturesque provincial town in the mountains, where forgotten places have a warm scent of the past, lighting up a desire to bring back her first love, Boris, who is preparing for marriage. Contrary to the social norms, I...

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory....

That Christmas wasn't particularly snowy in Lviv, however it didn't spoil the mood for tourists and locals. Mother and her daughter taking advantage of people's inattention steal from shops and sell it in social networks....

Lyuba works at a confectionery factory. Her son is in the war zone and there is no connection with him. Lyuba goes in search of his son in an unfamiliar territory....

Katya and Anton are a young couple who have just moved into their own apartment in a residential area of Kyiv. They are madly in love with each other, but their happiness and lives are suddenly threatened. There seems to be a real evil lurking behind...

After several years on the frontline, Sasha, a female sniper in the Ukrainian army, returns to her home village, determined to forget the war and return to a peaceful life. But she finds out that her father, a forester, disappeared because of his res...

Young cello player Nastya is besotted with Yura and wants him to be her "first". But this can be too much for some men, so Nastya has to think carefully about her strategy....

Based on diaries and photographs found in the houses destroyed during the Russian war against Ukraine, the film captures the stories of Mariupol, including that of the director’s family. It centers on the value of freedom and human life itself over t...

Despite himself, a doctor has to go with his young patient in the mountains. He will never forget this trip. Through a "mise en abyme" of the filmic process by an original method that reveals what the protagonist is filming, we are constantly rocked ...

Amir is an immigrant who has lived in Ukraine for a long time and works as a translator. He is trying to save his relationship with his young daughter after a difficult divorce. Experiencing an identity crisis, he gets lost in a whirlwind of one-nigh...

Against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion, a contemporary artist Roman, who has issues with alcohol, tries to find understanding with his loved ones: his parents, wife, and lover. Caught up in a cycle of recurring events and circumstances, Roman turn...

During the political crisis in the Ukraine, young parents are going through a tough divorce. The mother wishes to emigrate with her child, but the father can't imagine living without his son....

The shadows is about homelessness, but not about hopelessness. The difference between them it’s just one letter. But at the same time it’s an abyss. This story began three years ago as an observation of the photographer Sasha Chekmenyov during his wo...

Arina, a violinist, plays in an orchestra, and her boyfriend Denys is a conductor. They have a codependent relationship. During a party at a music competition, she is raped by a stranger. She does not dare to tell her partner about it. At the same ti...