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After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.

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 for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion.

Homeless children can be seen today in the streets of many Ukrainian cities. The film is about two wonderful people who offer their own solution to this problem. Nadia Tarnopolska, says 'that's what my husband and I used to think, that if every family took in at least one child that's on the streets, in a children's home, at a crisis center, then we wouldn't have any orphans. It's not the children's fault. They are no worse than any child from a settled home. They all need warmth and affection. And if we can share with them, we're grateful to God that he gives us the chance to do something for them!'

Canned Dreams is a film about workers and their dreams on the journey of a canned food product.

The eastern Ukrainian town of Snezhnoje, which prospered during the Soviet era when miners there were spoiled with all kinds of privileges, now lives in poverty.

Michel, a trendy restaurateur and well over 40 is struggling to accept his wife leaving him for a little-known artist. One winter night while driving on the highway he picks up Oksana, a tear-stained girl carrying a bag and a suitcase, who has obviously been thrown out of her home. It occurs to Michel that this may be an omen and this sweet and defenceless girl could be his long-awaited piece of heaven for the sufferings he endured in his family life. However, it quickly appears that Michel's former wife Tetyana, Oksana, her younger sister Olya and their boyfriends are interconnected by the most unexpected of circumstances and are compelled to live practically in the same apartment. All of them are desperately fighting for happiness, using any means available to them: tenderness, sincerity, tears, threats and cruelty. What is going to win: sincere and hopeless love, cold calculation or desperate attempts at self-hypnosis: "Now I'm gonna love you!"?

Hip hop dancer Chrystyna, 16, learns that she is an heir to an ancient family of Ukrainian sorcerers, known as molfars, and instead of the World Dance Championship in Las Vegas, she sets off for a parallel world on a mission to save her ancestors from a merciless villain eager to conquer the Universe.

A film tells about the unusual vital choice of the Ukrainian woman Natalia. Having two higher university degrees she found her mission in taking care of heavily sick abandoned children of different nationalities.

Once upon a time there were two Kingdoms: the Militant Kingdom and the Unhappy Kingdom. The intrigues of the Secret Service of the Militant Kingdom made young Princess of the Unhappy Kingdom run away from home.

The film has 4 main characters, very different at first thought. They are Vladimir Kibalchich (Vlady), the great Mexican artist of Russian origin; Maurice Druon, the renowned French writer; Viktor Chernomyrdin, famous Russian politician and statesman; Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist and conductor. The film consists of 5 parts: "About roots", "About war", "About work", "About love", "About oneself". They tell us about human values and actualities that join these persons in one place, in one century, in one film... The film was shot in Moscow, Orenburg (Russia), Paris (France), Mexico, Cuernavaca (Mexico)

The medieval knight in the modern times can work on the position of refrigerator serviceman, doesn't have a horse and only dream about his own sword. But the real warrior always finds a way to arena and always ready to fight...

Young woman Svitlana grants a fairy tale trip to Carpathians to student Alex, which greeted her in New Year night serves as Santa Klaus. A film is devoted to memory of AIDS victims.

A modern-day Cinderella story, focusing on a 23-year old musician for whom the saxophone has proved to be both an inspiration and a practical means of escape from a life of dreariness in a Ukrainian orphanage. Now Veronica has been accepted to pursue higher studies at elite institutions in Eastern Europe, a development which offers her both a clear and direct way to the top of the performing arts world and yet another round of displacement. The camera follows her as a main character and a visual subject: a striking red-haired girl, through crowded streams of unknown faces, car traffic, and the waves of the sea. Between the storms of ovation and the loneliness of nights, she struggles to fulfill the dream of a lifetime.