Ukrainian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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1. Wartime Romance (1983)
92 min | Drama, Romance
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged ... See full summary »
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Natalya Andreychenko, Inna Churikova, Ekaterina Yudina
Votes: 644
1984 (Nominated) [submitted as part of the Soviet Union)
2. A Friend of the Deceased (1997)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.
Directors: Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | Stars: Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Elena Korikova
Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.15M
1997
3. Mamay (2003)
80 min | Drama
Mamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild... See full summary »
Director: Oles Sanin | Stars: Viktoria Spesivtseva, Andrij Bilous, Nazl Sejtablaeva, Sergey Romanyuk
Votes: 243
2003
4. Voditel dlya Very (2004)
105 min | Drama
A General, who had sent for a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his personal driver, decided to marry him to his physically disabled daughter
Directors: Pavel Chukhraj, Pavel Chukhray | Stars: Igor Petrenko, Alyona Babenko, Bogdan Stupka, Andrey Panin
Votes: 1,990
2004 (Disqualified)
5. Avrora (2006)
107 min | Drama
Aurora dreams about becoming a talented ballet dancer one day. However, life is not so simple. 12-year-old orphan Aurora Nedelina lives in an orphanage in Pripyat and accidentally becomes a... See full summary »
Director: Oksana Bayrak | Stars: Anastasiia Ziurkalova, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Eric Roberts, Anastasiya Meskova
Votes: 378
2006
6. Illyuziya strakha (2008)
80 min | Thriller
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Kirienko | Stars: Andrey Panin, Alyona Babenko, Aleksey Gorbunov, Sergey Garmash
Votes: 112
2008
7. ToyKhtoProyshovKrizVohon (2011)
110 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.
Director: Mykhailo Illienko | Stars: Dmytro Linartovych, Vitaliy Linetskiy, Olga Grishina, Ivanna Illienko
Votes: 1,524
2012
8. Paradzhanov (2013)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love ... See full summary »
Directors: Serge Avedikian, Olena Fetisova | Stars: Serge Avedikian, Yuliya Peresild, Karen Badalov, Zaza Kashybadze
Votes: 330
2013
9. The Guide (2014)
122 min | Drama, History
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-1930s Soviet Ukraine.
Director: Oles Sanin | Stars: Stanislav Boklan, Jeff Burrell, Boris Georgievskiy, Anton Sviatoslav Greene
Votes: 3,477
2014
10. Ukrainian Sheriffs (2015)
85 min | Documentary
A tragicomic portrait of a two-man team of sheriffs in a remote Ukrainian village disturbed by everyday incidents and political developments.
Director: Roman Bondarchuk
Votes: 430
2016
11. Black Level (2017)
91 min | Drama
Loneliness dwells in a big city; Kostya, the wedding photographer, dwells there too. At work, he is surrounded by happy people celebrating special moments in their lives. Kostya is about to... See full summary »
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Konstantin Mokhnach, Katya Molchanova
Votes: 161
2017
12. Donbass (2018)
122 min | Drama
In eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk, Olesya Zhurakivska
Votes: 4,936
2018
13. Homeward (2019)
96 min | Drama
A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
Director: Nariman Aliev | Stars: Akhtem Seitablaev, Remzi Bilyalov, Dariya Barikhashvili, Anatoliy Marempolskiy
Votes: 2,019
2019
14. Atlantis (2019)
108 min | Drama, War
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak, Lily Hyde
Votes: 2,673
2020
15. Bad Roads (2020)
105 min | Drama
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
Director: Natalya Vorozhbit | Stars: Igor Koltovskyy, Andrey Lelyukh, Volodymyr Hurin, Anna Zhurakovskaya
Votes: 859
2021
16. Klondike (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
After flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.
Director: Maryna Er Gorbach | Stars: Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Shcherbina, Oleg Shevchuk
Votes: 1,883
2022
17. 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, War
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Director: Mstyslav Chernov | Stars: Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Liudmyla Amelkina, Roman Golovanov
Votes: 20,320
2023 (Shortlisted)
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