Taras Kompanichenko

Empowered follows seven remarkable Ukrainians — human-rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk, singer Jamala, violinist Bohdana Pivnenko, kobzar Taras Kompanichenko, painter Anatolii Kryvolap, the band DakhaBrakha and cinematographer Serhii Mykhalchuk. Through their work and everyday lives, the film shows a country that keeps making art, defending human rights and building its future even in the middle of a full-scale war. Its subject is not what Ukraine endures, but what Ukrainians go on creating and protecting.

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

The documentary drama about the formation and creative rise of Ukrainian novelist Hryhir Tiutiunnyk in the context of the work and influences of his older brother Hryhoriy. "A writer is born out of love and suffering," wrote Hryhir Tiutiunnyk. There really was no other way for a Ukrainian writer like him, and this documentary is about that.

Sashko, a soldier of a Ukrainian volunteer battalion, survives after a firing under Ilovajsk and tries to get to his fellowmen. Along the way, he meets the most unexpected companions and enemies.