
Directing
Valerii Shalyha
Born 1963-06-23 · Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Film director, actor, screenwriter, producer. Honored Artist of Ukraine, Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, Member of the Expert Commission at State Cinema. He was born on June 23, 1963, in the village of Velyki Korovyntsi, Chudniv district, Zhytomyr region. In 1985, he graduated from the theater studio at the Kyiv Academic Theater, named after I. Franko. In 1993, he made his debut as a film director at the O.P. Dovzhenka film studio (A.Y. Voytetskyi's workshop). In 1999, he graduated from the Kyiv Theater Institute named after I. Karpenko-Kary.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRThe story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.
Echoes
2020
NRThe story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.
Echoes
2020
NRThe story of the events of 1941, the beginning of the occupation of Vinnytsia, when the mass extermination of Jews began.
Echoes
2020
NRUkraine, goodbye! - Ukrainian film Almanac — a collection of short films about the acute social problem of Ukraine-emigration abroad. The collection includes 25 short films in Ukrainian or Russian.
Ukraine, Goodbye!
2011
NRA wealthy peasant Herasym Kalytka wants to buy his neighbor's land, but he doesn't have enough money. The unknown offers him to buy one hundred thousand fake money for five thousand. Herasym together with the best man Savka buy this money. But instead of money, they are sold blank paper. In desperation, Herasym wants to hang himself, but he is saved. Kalytka's greed almost ended in tragedy, but he continues to dream of land.
Lucifer's Case
2025
NRA wealthy peasant Herasym Kalytka wants to buy his neighbor's land, but he doesn't have enough money. The unknown offers him to buy one hundred thousand fake money for five thousand. Herasym together with the best man Savka buy this money. But instead of money, they are sold blank paper. In desperation, Herasym wants to hang himself, but he is saved. Kalytka's greed almost ended in tragedy, but he continues to dream of land.
Lucifer's Case
2025
NRA wealthy peasant Herasym Kalytka wants to buy his neighbor's land, but he doesn't have enough money. The unknown offers him to buy one hundred thousand fake money for five thousand. Herasym together with the best man Savka buy this money. But instead of money, they are sold blank paper. In desperation, Herasym wants to hang himself, but he is saved. Kalytka's greed almost ended in tragedy, but he continues to dream of land.
Lucifer's Case
2025
NRStepanivna and her friend are two old women. They earn money by selling mushrooms at the farmers market. Women know very good spots, there are always a lot of big and beautiful mushrooms. Their relative is a policeman, he fetches old ladies to the forest by a car every day. If not for this car and his uniform two pensioners would never sell so many mushrooms. The spots they gather mushrooms on are closed for the ordinary citizens, no transport is going there. This is area of Chornobyl Nuclear Plant.
Mushrooms
2012
NRStepanivna and her friend are two old women. They earn money by selling mushrooms at the farmers market. Women know very good spots, there are always a lot of big and beautiful mushrooms. Their relative is a policeman, he fetches old ladies to the forest by a car every day. If not for this car and his uniform two pensioners would never sell so many mushrooms. The spots they gather mushrooms on are closed for the ordinary citizens, no transport is going there. This is area of Chornobyl Nuclear Plant.
Mushrooms
2012
To support her husband, son and mother, the heroine moves abroad to work odd jobs. Whenever she returns home, she promises herself not leave anymore. But every time she doesn’t keep her word. Because every family member already has a certain habit: her mother likes to watch TV, her son wants to have stylish clothes and a phone, her husband likes to drink with friends in a garage. None of them is working. She hesitates when gets called about a new job. But watching her family makes the heroine realize: she has no other choice, except for going abroad again.
Off I'll Go!
2011
8.02014. Former military Serhii Vitruk cannot find peace of mind. Work is not fun, and there is no understanding with his wife. His only joy is his daughter Zoryanka. And then there are events in the east - ATO. The death of a colleague becomes the last straw. Serhii decides to voluntarily return to the army. His unit enters the environment. And that's where the unexpected meeting happens. What is war or peace now? How to live when somewhere near people are killed protecting your peace?
Hold Near Your Heart
2017
NR1941. Ukraine. Second World War. Two enemies meet in German captivity: one from the Red Army, and the second from UPA. Both of them think their way is right.
The Long Shot
2005
NR1941. Ukraine. Second World War. Two enemies meet in German captivity: one from the Red Army, and the second from UPA. Both of them think their way is right.
The Long Shot
2005
NRA simple, good man dies—collective farm driver Stepan Derevianko. With him, an entire poetic world dies. But the life he left behind, with his wife and young daughter, goes on. Based on the novel of the same name by Hryhorii Tiutiunnyk.
Three Lamentations over Stepan
1993
NRA simple, good man dies—collective farm driver Stepan Derevianko. With him, an entire poetic world dies. But the life he left behind, with his wife and young daughter, goes on. Based on the novel of the same name by Hryhorii Tiutiunnyk.
Three Lamentations over Stepan
1993

