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"Ivan the Poweful" tells the outstanding life story of Ivan Firtsak who was born in June 1899 in a Ukrainian village Bilky, Irshava district in Zakarpattia Oblast. At 18 he became a performer with a Czechoslovak circus and traveled to 64 countries of the world, astonishing everybody with his victories. He was a weightlifting champion of Czechoslovakia and a bodybuilding champion of Europe. He earned the nickname Strong Ivan Croton for his incredible strength. Ivan Firtsak won a great number of single combats with famous wrestlers of the world. From hands of the Queen of England he received a helmet and a belt decorated with gold and diamonds. The American press called him the strongest man of the XX century. In 1937, in the prime of his fame, he returned to his homeland.

In 1947, the commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Danylo Chervonyi, finds himself trapped in Stalin's brutal prison-camp Gulag. He must endure hellish and inhumane prison conditions, as well as the persecution of criminal leaders, treachery, and despair. Despite the repression of the prison-camp commander, Danylo finds the strength to resist and makes a desperate attempt to break free, sparking the first rebellion in the camp.

Anton explores how the universal bonds of childhood friendship are stronger than the prejudices of an adult world torn by hatred and revenge in the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolution. The year is 1919. The story unfolds in a small village in Ukraine, a region settled by German families many decades earlier to farm the rich land near the Black Sea. It brings into clear focus the true meaning of friendship. Together, Anton and Jakob find strength and comfort. It is a friendship shaped by their fascination with gazing at clouds and the significance of heaven as they imagine it. Although Anton is a Catholic and Jakob is a Jew, their friendship is more powerful than their different religious backgrounds. Their belief in each other as young boys and the imaginary world they create shields them from the fear, violence and divisions that surround them. Separated when Anton's family ultimately escapes from Ukraine to seek a new life, the memory of their friendship endures through the decades, shaping their lives until they finally reunite as Anton nears death.

Young Italian Michele, who has Ukrainian roots, goes to an abandoned Carpathian village to dispel the dust of his mother. Here he meets his grandfather Michael. This unexpected meeting changes their lives forever.

A Ukrainian woman comes back to her native village leaving her working life in Italy behind.

Depuis le soulèvement d'une insurrection prorusse dans l'est de l'Ukraine en 2014, des centaines de femmes ont rejoint l'armée. Seuls quelques-uns ont atteint la ligne de front.

When war came to their home, thousands of Ukrainian women took it upon themselves to become soldiers and lay their lives on the line for peace and freedom in their country. This feature documentary follows three of those women and the lives they never expected to lead.

Few weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.

2014. East of Ukraine. Military conflict and the death of their father brings the two brothers back home. Grieving mother tries to hide the truth about one of her child (Bohdan) from another son (Stanislav). Everything would go well, if not for the military mercenaries who come after Bohdan life.

The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.

1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.

Nastya was ten when a missile fired by Russian terrorists on New Year's Eve changed her life forever. It took her father's life and destroyed their house. Nastya's school is only in 500 meters from the front line. War has become commonplace. Just a part of the landscape. The only means for Nastya's family to survive is the scrap metal they scavenge while under fire. Senya is seven years old. He is a first-grader. In the seven years of his life, he has seen seven years of war and not a day of peace. Senya likes to climb on the boney pile to watch the sunset. His stepfather dig graves to earn money for a new suit and backpack for Senya. This is a film about the children who live in the war zone in Ukraine.

This is a portrait of a man, for whom the war in Eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of the Donbas, a man of about forty-five, a family guy, an ordinary worker. Director is a young man of about twenty-six, single, a west-man, coming from the intelligentsia. This is the usual day of the ordinary military. These are events and people whom you can meet there. This is the relationship between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience but also a kind of cultural exchange between different social strata and communities. This is the birth of new, special traditions.

The film explores Taras Shevchenko's biography of Kobzar, to be precise, of three of his editions, which saw the light of life in 1841, 1844, and 1860. Related issues are also covered, such as the emergence of the alphabet, the textology of Shevchenko's works and his friendly correspondence, his first trip to Ukraine, his arrest, and his last journey of 1860, censorship and secret surveillance. They are all closely intertwined with Kobzar's biography. Also, the facts of the biography of this book will be able to tell about the origin of modern identification of Ukrainians - their transformation from "Little Russian nation" to people with state aspiration.