TOP-5 Films Ukrainian Films Of 2015

Over years, the Ukrainian cinema has been increasingly producing new films, which have become quite popular among the Ukrainian and foreign audience. Of course, previous 2014 was the most productive year for Ukrainian film industry: back then, 20 Ukrainian films came out.

Since the beginning of 2015, about 15 Ukrainian films were presented to the audience. One of them was taken for rotation by popular American film company XX Century Fox.

WeLoveUA presents a list of the best films of 2015, which were awarded various Ukrainian and foreign awards and prizes.

Indestructable

That is the film that became one of the greatest box office hitters in 2015 and that it was taken for release in the USA by XX Century Fox. The plot of the film is based on the story of a woman warrior of WWII Liudmyla Pavlychenko. The student of Shevchenko University became famous after she left studying and joined the army and became a sniper. The film follows the plight of the woman thrown into the war. During the first 2 weeks of distribution of a motion picture, this film collected 9.5 million UAH.

Brothers. The Last Confession

It is a Ukrainian drama about two Gutsul brothers, who hadn’t been brothers for a long time. They do not speak to each other for many years. But a writer, who came to the village to read them a lecture about the saints and fools, brings changes in their lives. The movie gained four awards at international festivals. It was acknowledged The Best Debut in Romania, received the award for best screenplay at Kinoshock festival, and the Prize of the Russian press. Also, Natalia Polovynka, who played the lead female part in the film, was awarded as the Best Actress.

Tribe

It is one of the best films in the entire history of Ukrainian cinema. This is the drama about the life of deaf adolescents in a specialized boarding school. The tragic fate of protagonists was expressed using finger-language without any subtitles or dubbing. It is also interesting that the lead roles in the movie were played by ordinary teenagers. The main awards for the film director, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi were the recognition of the American edition of Rolling Stone and influential American newsreel The Hollywood Reporter, which acknowledged it the best Ukrainian movie of 2015. In addition, the film by Slaboshpytskyi was noted by IndieWire and Variety.

The Nest of the Turtledove

The realities of Ukrainian life were truthfully outlined in the film directed by Taras Tkachenko. The protagonist is a loving wife and a good mother, but she is forced to go to Italy to earn a living in Ukraine because of insufficient earnings and the firing of her husband from work. And when the woman returns home, it does not seem as wonderful as she imagined, for she is in a delicate condition…

Toloka

400 years of history of the Ukrainian people has been described in one of the films directed by Mykhailo Illienko. A screening of Shevchenko’s poem “That Kateryna has a house on the hathpace” has received a new shade and a fresh vision of development of many historical events. The film tells about Kateryna, who pledged her love to a person who would free her brother from the Turkish bondage. However, as it turned out, it was not her brother but a boyfriend. In Shevchenko’s poem, the woman was beheaded, but in the film she lives till old age and becomes a mother. The film covers 14 important historical events of Ukraine.

Maksym Osa

This is the first Ukrainian film that became a comic book adaptation. Oleksii Mamedov created the real Ukrainian detective based on the comic book by Igor Baranko. The film tells about the cornet of Korsun regiment Maksym Osa, who is sitting on his grave for the fifth day thinking where it came from if he is alive. This is the puzzle that the protagonist will try to unravel with the help of Death.