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Vyacheslav Bihun
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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’…
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NR"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
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
NRThere 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
NRA 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
NRAn 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
NRPoetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.
Tulipa
2025
Behind the camera
NR"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
NR"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
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
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
NRThere 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
NRThere 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
NRThere 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
NRA 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
NRAn 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
NRAn 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
NRPoetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.
Tulipa
2025
NRPoetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.
Tulipa
2025
NRPoetic short film tracing a tulip’s life cycle as a metaphor for love, loss, and renewal.
Tulipa
2025
NRA portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.
Magnificus
2021
NRA portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.
Magnificus
2021
NRA portrait of a legendary university professor Petro Rabinovich who inspired generations of lawyers.
Magnificus
2021
NRIn 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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NRIn 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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NRIn 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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NRA documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.
A Letter to Tarkovsky
2016
NRA documentary visualizes a candid personal letter to Andrei Tarkovsky.
A Letter to Tarkovsky
2016
NRFatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.
Fatalis
2020
NRFatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.
Fatalis
2020
NRFatalis – a look at the life and fate of the walnut, a symbol of intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.
Fatalis
2020
NRBased on O. Dovzhenko's short story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of a Ukrainian mother.
Mother. In the Name of Millions
2014
NRBased on O. Dovzhenko's short story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of a Ukrainian mother.
Mother. In the Name of Millions
2014
NRAn 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
NRFilm 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
NRFilm 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
NRFilm 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
NRA 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
NRWhile 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
NRWhile 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
NRA short metaphor about search for harmony in a mountain river.
Aeternus
2022
NRA short metaphor about search for harmony in a mountain river.
Aeternus
2022
NRTraveling 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
NRTraveling 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
NRTraveling 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
NRThe 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
NRThe 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
