Oleksandr Mavrits

Based on a true story, a commander is jailed in Josef Stalin’s Gulag in 1947. The prisoners then plot the first uprising and escape in Soviet history.

The true story of two Ukrainian soldiers with a volunteer battalion who find themselves locked inside the Russian-controlled city of Ilovaisk.

Ukraine, 1996. Five months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends – a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist – investigate the murder of a colleague whose widow both of them loved when they were young. Immersed in memories of the past, they unconsciously create a future in which their children will have to live, reaping the fruits of their parents' lost hopes.