Movies: Indie Lab

A young Orthodox priest, fed up with too much intolerance and hypocrisy at the Kyiv Pechery Lavra, decides to leave his service there. He finds for himself a new flock: gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people as well as those living with HIV/...

A film about the events in Donetsk in the spring of 2014 through the eyes of a teenager who supported the separatists....

Who are you? How do you see yourself? Kaya is 27. What does the life of a fragile girl consist of when she is a poet and a rebel?...

For the sake of their children and in pursuit of justice, residents and activists of what was once a paradise, now threatened by an industrial monster growing up next to their homes, are exposing the state in the first Ukrainian environmental case in...

"Thus they will sing" is a movie-collage that interweaves human experiences, soromitski (shaming) songs and the flow of modern life. Soromnitski (shaming) songs are traditional songs (spivankas) with erotic motifs, sung at weddings, vechornytsi (even...

Ukrainian science is a world where real miracles happen. But what is the real state of affairs in Ukrainian science? What are Ukrainian scientists fighting for, and what is the future of the state without them?...

Film-box, film-excavation, film-hiding place. A brief excursion into contemporary archaeology....

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Mykhalych, a farmer from Luhansk, miraculously escapes captivity by the Batman battalion (LPR). Unable to continue farming near Luhansk, he sets up a farm in the Chornobyl exclusion zone. Mykhalych plants his first crop......

The film consists of diaries and photos from the year 1937, which were bought at a flea market in Kharkiv. Why do people deny their own memory of Soviet experience? Is it possible to recreate historical age through personal stories and what is more i...

The film consists of women's voices—the voices of miners' wives. Their confessions lead us through the streets of the small town of Chervonopartizansk, located in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine....

Anton is an ordinary guy from Kryvyi Rih who plays computer games, listens to rap music, and works as an IT engineer. But after the Revolution of Dignity, he began fighting against the corrupt local authorities, which are still dominated by represent...

A group of reporters arrives to the village Vilkovo (knows as "Ukrainian Venice") to see how the vacuum sewers functions. Three years ago, this 4.5 million euro project was implemented by the European Union. What do the officials hide from them, and ...

A young Ukrainian journalist films “stories” on Instagram from the center of events. In the daytime, he is at the political demonstrations, at night – at the bars and parties. He has to decide where his own place is....

Young activists decide to conduct an artistic experiment: they visit a randomly selected courtyard in a residential area of Kyiv and offer their services to residents to diversify life in the courtyard. The most active and engaged members of the comm...

Despite lacking the necessary education, experience, and money, the students decide to build a race car and participate in international competitions. They could not even imagine how many obstacles would await them on the way to their goal....

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“Our society is not ready for democracy,” one of the Internal Troops of Ukraine servicemen says on the Maidan in 2014. For the first time, those standing on the other side of the barricades are speaking up on the film screen. The citizens whose profe...