Vyacheslav Bihun

Directing

Vyacheslav Bihun

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Directing

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Vyacheslav Bihun is a Ukrainian film director and legal philosopher. Educated at leading universities in Ukraine and abroad, Dr. Bihun, prior to turning to filmmaking, worked as a lawyer at the European Court in Strasbourg. He was later trained as a film director at the Sorbonne (adaptation of fiction and political cinema) and Baltic Film School. The filmmaker, active from 2013-14, shot films in Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, and France, nominated at over 150 film festivals, and celebrated with over 100 awards. He's well known for his active promotion of Ukrainian cinema. Bihun supported the release of his colleague, Oleg Sentsov, by joining him for 17 days in solidarity for a hunger strike. He’…

Known for

Behind the camera

Passion poster
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"Passion" is a metaphorical story about a lady visited by the twin brother of her beloved: love turns into chaos, sin and atonement.

Passion

2016

Passion poster
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"Passion" is a metaphorical story about a lady visited by the twin brother of her beloved: love turns into chaos, sin and atonement.

Passion

2016

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Hundreds of Ukrainian and international filmmakers and media personalities were killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is a collection of one-minute episodes about them, primarily based on unique private videos.

Last Shooting

2023

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Hundreds of Ukrainian and international filmmakers and media personalities were killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. This is a collection of one-minute episodes about them, primarily based on unique private videos.

Last Shooting

2023

Sanctuarium poster
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There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place in Tallinn's Old Town where you can also meet its Founder.

Sanctuarium

2014

Sanctuarium poster
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There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place in Tallinn's Old Town where you can also meet its Founder.

Sanctuarium

2014

Sanctuarium poster
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There is a sacred place called Sanctuarium. It is not physically fixed. You can discover it within yourself. But if it's difficult to find it, you might visit such the place in Tallinn's Old Town where you can also meet its Founder.

Sanctuarium

2014

Moro poster
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A man decides whether to accept a call to protect his country's independence in a new war. Joining a special intelligence unit, he is testing his destiny with allies and enemies with a slight but sweet chance for reward.

Moro

2019

Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema poster
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An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema. The film features Sergei Trimbach, Oleksandr Muratov, Vyacheslav Bihun, Raisa Prokopenko, and Peter Simms.

Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema

2013

Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema poster
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An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema. The film features Sergei Trimbach, Oleksandr Muratov, Vyacheslav Bihun, Raisa Prokopenko, and Peter Simms.

Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema

2013

Tulipa poster
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Poetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.

Tulipa

2025

Tulipa poster
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Poetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.

Tulipa

2025

Tulipa poster
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Poetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.

Tulipa

2025

Magnificus poster
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A portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.

Magnificus

2021

Magnificus poster
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A portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.

Magnificus

2021

Magnificus poster
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A portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.

Magnificus

2021

Ukraine on Trial poster
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In one of the first films about the European Court of Human Rights, top human rights cases reflect human dramas which brought the applicants to the Court.

Ukraine on Trial

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Ukraine on Trial poster
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In one of the first films about the European Court of Human Rights, top human rights cases reflect human dramas which brought the applicants to the Court.

Ukraine on Trial

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Ukraine on Trial poster
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In one of the first films about the European Court of Human Rights, top human rights cases reflect human dramas which brought the applicants to the Court.

Ukraine on Trial

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A Letter to Tarkovsky poster
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A documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.

A Letter to Tarkovsky

2016

A Letter to Tarkovsky poster
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A documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.

A Letter to Tarkovsky

2016

Fatalis poster
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Fatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.

Fatalis

2020

Fatalis poster
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Fatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.

Fatalis

2020

Fatalis poster
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Fatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.

Fatalis

2020

Mother. In the Name of Millions poster
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Based on O. Dovzhenko's short story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of a Ukrainian mother.

Mother. In the Name of Millions

2014

Mother. In the Name of Millions poster
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Based on O. Dovzhenko's short story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of a Ukrainian mother.

Mother. In the Name of Millions

2014

Closest to God poster
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An inspiring story of modern Ukraine based on the example of two families destroyed by war, but which strengthen our spirit. A motivated lawyer from a wealthy family in the city of Dnipro, who has just started a family, volunteers for the front and dies in the hell of Donetsk airport shortly before demobilization. His mother also leaves this world after him. What remains are his grandfather, granddaughter, and our hope.

Closest to God

2016

Zirka poster
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Film portrait of Zoryslava Romovska, a leading Ukrainian jurist and author of the Family Code project. A cinematic journey into the closed world of law along an untrodden path leads Star (in Ukrainian - Zirka) from Kosovo to Lviv, Kyiv and back, into corrupt politics and law - a path in the turbulent 80s, on which she strives to preserve her conscience and reputation, inspiring with her charisma.

Zirka

2023

Zirka poster
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Film portrait of Zoryslava Romovska, a leading Ukrainian jurist and author of the Family Code project. A cinematic journey into the closed world of law along an untrodden path leads Star (in Ukrainian - Zirka) from Kosovo to Lviv, Kyiv and back, into corrupt politics and law - a path in the turbulent 80s, on which she strives to preserve her conscience and reputation, inspiring with her charisma.

Zirka

2023

Zirka poster
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Film portrait of Zoryslava Romovska, a leading Ukrainian jurist and author of the Family Code project. A cinematic journey into the closed world of law along an untrodden path leads Star (in Ukrainian - Zirka) from Kosovo to Lviv, Kyiv and back, into corrupt politics and law - a path in the turbulent 80s, on which she strives to preserve her conscience and reputation, inspiring with her charisma.

Zirka

2023

Verdict 19 poster
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A motivational drama about the first candidate for the newly formed Anti-Corruption Court who returns to Ukraine, known as the most corrupt continental state in Europe, to probe himself and the system by participating in the contest.

Verdict 19

2019

Lady and Bread poster
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While baking bread, 95-year-old Lydia recalls her difficult youth: she reveals the secrets of her life and tells how she survived the greatest famine in Europe, the Holodomor.

Lady and Bread

2015

Lady and Bread poster
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While baking bread, 95-year-old Lydia recalls her difficult youth: she reveals the secrets of her life and tells how she survived the greatest famine in Europe, the Holodomor.

Lady and Bread

2015

Aeternus poster
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A short metaphor about search for harmony in a mountain river.

Aeternus

2022

Aeternus poster
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A short metaphor about search for harmony in a mountain river.

Aeternus

2022

Strong in Spirit poster
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Traveling to a neighbouring country, a remarkable young man becomes a political prisoner: his body and soul are put to test, manifesting the spirit of his nation.

Strong in Spirit

2018

Strong in Spirit poster
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Traveling to a neighbouring country, a remarkable young man becomes a political prisoner: his body and soul are put to test, manifesting the spirit of his nation.

Strong in Spirit

2018

Strong in Spirit poster
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Traveling to a neighbouring country, a remarkable young man becomes a political prisoner: his body and soul are put to test, manifesting the spirit of his nation.

Strong in Spirit

2018

Last Soldier poster
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The first optimist and last WWII soldier of a 600-year-old Transcarpathian village, 91-year-old librarian and chess player Yuriy Kurucza carols his stories of life, amours and homeland.

Last Soldier

2017

Marusia poster
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The fate of women against the backdrop of Transcarpathian history. The author's grandmother, Maria Fedorivna, recounts her life: how, as a 15-year-old girl, she had to marry into a second village because "the Russians were evicting the kulaks," how "the Russians" destroyed their family's house, the largest in the village, which had been built with money earned by migrant workers, took all their livestock and supplies, and sentenced her brother to seven years in prison. The wealthiest family was forced into poverty. The film also tells about the consequences of the 2015 earthquake in Okruha. When the tremors shook the village, Maria Fedorivna was in the hospital. Before she returned home, her relatives repaired the cracks in the house to protect Grandma Maria from anxiety.

Marusia

2016