Vyacheslav Babenkov

MYTHS OF ANCIENT INDUSTRY

This short film tells the story of a producer who once again denies a screenwriter the chance to realize HIS script. But this time, the script turns out to be far from ordinary. All names are fictional, and any resemblance is purely coincidental.

Train to Christmas

By chance, on Christmas Eve, completely different passengers with their own problems and dreams board the same train, and now they all have to arrange Christmas dinner right in the dining car. While waiting for the first star, all the passengers come together as one big Ukrainian family. And miracles begin to happen.

Crazy Neighbours

Peace proves elusive for the Serediuks as they keep engaging in constant neighborhood rivalry and mess around with the families next door day and night.

Burying the Ex

Four strangers meet at the funeral of a woman they all once dated — a soldier who died on the front line. She invited them to be there, but why? At her favorite bar, their stories about her slowly shift into stories about themselves.

The First Days

A unique drama anthology series for our time, inspired by true events which happened in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. As the brutal war got underway, every second person left Kyiv. Yet every second person remained. These are their stories – variously moving, funny, sad, stark, unsettling, and uplifting.

Отречение

Rhino

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Two Sisters

Two sisters set out from Warsaw to Kharkiv to pick up their seriously injured father.

Immigrant Holdem

An FSB agent comes to the United States to meet with CIA agents to exchange secret documents for an American passport. But he is Russian and that says it all.

Coffee with Cardamom